More Spooks, Plots and Conspiracies
The Accident Man by Tom Cain
With endorsements by both Lee Child & Wilbur Smith this first thriller from Tom Cain promised to be good and didn’t disappoint. Ex-marine, Samuel Carver makes bad things happen to bad people, but wants out of the game he’s got himself into. Persuaded to take one last job, the elimination of a target said to be a high ranking terrorist, Carver is horrified when too late, he discovers the target’s true identity. Knowing too much, Carver now finds that he is the prey and unless he can find the mysterious man behind the murderous mission, he too will end up dead. Breaking his own rules and linking up with an enigmatic young Russian woman, both of them go on the run and search to find out who ordered a hit that should never have been.
The Tunnel Rats by Stephen Leather
When a brutally mutilated body is found in a disused London railway tunnel, Dectective Nick Wright hunts for the killer. Meanwhile in the USA, Senator Dean Burrow , tipped to be the next Vice President finds that a secret dating back to the Vietnam war has come back to haunt him. In Bangkok another murder takes place, the body bearing similar mutilations to the one found in London and Nick Wright finds himself journeying to Thailand in a search for members of the ‘Tunnel Rats’ and on to the tunnels of Vietnam where US soldiers fought the dirtiest battles of the war against the Viet Cong. What links that time and the murders in the present day and what dark deed doesn’t Senator Burrow want revealed?
The Long Shot by Stephen Leather
A family are murdered when they innocently stumble upon an assassination rehearsal in the seclusion of the Arizona Desert. The video they filmed of the event is found however and FBI Agent, Cole Howard is soon on the trail. Who is the assassins target and when will the assassination attempt take? Meanwhile in UK former SAS sergeant Mike Cramer is asked to go to the USA on a covert mission by his former SAS CO. Mike treads a very dangerous path as he infiltrates the New York Irish community to track down a ruthless killer who tore his life apart and ended his army career. Unless Cramer & Howard agree to co-operate the most spectacular assassination of all time will take place. Can they beat the clock before time runs out?
Cold Kill by Stephen Leather
Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd is investigating a people-smuggling gang operating across the English Channel. After rescuing one of the illegal immigrants children from drowning, he discovers that counterfeit currency is also being smuggled into the country. Following on this new lead Dan soon finds that what he thought was a run-of-the mill investigation is more sinister than he thought and quickly turns into a matter of life and death when he uncovers a plot to blow up a Eurotunnel cross channel train. Racing against time, Dan Shepherd and his colleagues have to decide how far they are prepared to go to save innocent lives. They very soon realise that to avoid catastrophe, they have to be more ruthless and merciless than the terrorists they are hunting.
Soft Target by Stephen Leather
Ex-SAS undercover cop Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd is given his most dangerous mission so far in Stephen Leather’s latest up to the minute novel. In the throes of concluding a case where he has had to pose as a hit man, Dan is ordered to infiltrate an elite SO19 police unit, some of whom’s members have turned maverick and are ripping off drug dealers at gunpoint. The two cases dangerously overlap, when the notorious gangster Dan has been contracted to kill by the gangster’s abused wife, discovers Dan’s real identity. Meanwhile in London where the SO19 unit are based, an Islamic terrorist cell are plotting suicide bombings on the underground. Dan’s loyalties are torn when the unit that he has now joined cross the path of the bombers and a deadly race begins to save innocent lives from being lost.
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The Cleaner by Brett Battles
Jonathan Quinn is a professional ‘cleaner’, but he won’t come and clean your house for you. No, Jonathan is a cleaner of another variety, nothing too violent, just disposing of bodies and erasing evidence that might embarrass ‘the Office’ the shadowy organisation that he works for on a freelance basis. When Jonathan is asked to investigate a suspicious case of arson in which an unnamed man had died, a job which appears routine enough, he sets off for Colorado and a small town called Allyson. When a dead body turns up where it doesn’t belong and Quinn’s handlers fall strangely quiet, Jonathan knows it’s time to watch his back. When an attempt is then made to kill him, Jonathan & his ‘apprentice’ Nate head fast for cover and try to work out why someone wants them dead and if it’s linked to a larger attempt to wipe out the ‘Office’. An exciting tale with the action ranging from Colorado, via Vietnam to Berlin.
The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry
The massacre of Romanov Family at Yekaterinburg in July 1918 brought an end to the rule of the Tsars in Russia. In a future Russia however the people have voted to bring back the Tsar, a ruler to be selected from the remaining Romanovs, distant relatives of the last Tsar . A Commision is set up to choose the next Tsar from the prospective candidates put forward. Miles Lord an American lawyer is asked to run background checks on Stefan Baklanov. Miles soon finds that he has taken on a very dangerous task when he is nearly gunned down on a Moscow street. As Miles digs further into the past he comes across accounts of a cryptic utterance made by Rasputin and inferences in old documents that some members of the Romanov family might have survived the massacre. Aided by Akilina Petrovna a performer in the Moscow Circus, they search for the truth not knowing the incredible secret that they will uncover, or the peril they will place themselves in.
The Alexander Cipher by Will Adams
Daniel Knox is an outcast Egyptologist with a fascination for Alexander the Great, who is presently working as a dive instructor . Daniel gets himself into a lot of trouble when he crosses shipping tycoon Hassan al-Assyuti and has to go on the run. Meanwhile on a building site in Alexandria, Mohammed el-Dahab makes a remarkable discovery when he unearths a long lost necropolis. The Dragoumis family, fierce champions of Macedonian independence learn of it and send their archaeologist Elena Koloktronis and her assistant, Gaille Bonnard to investigate. It soon becomes clear that the tomb indeed has links to Alexander and may lead them to the tomb of the great man himself. Knox too learns of the discovery and evading capture by Hassan’s men joins the hunt.
Eventually Daniel and Gaille join forces and find themselves involved in a deadly race, for the Dragoumis’ will stop at nothing to keep the prize for themselves and will kill anyone who gets in their way.
