Series: Book 1 in the Novels series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: EN-Alire, Lang:en
Summary
In Leather's latest American release, British Transport
Police Sergeant Nick Wright gets territorial when the
mutilated body of an American news photographer turns up in
an abandoned railroad tunnel. He's resentful toward the
Metropolitan police for getting involved, and likes it even
less when the FBI joins the manhunt, but he hangs tenaciously
to the case, despite being saddled with an alcoholic partner
and a hatful of personal problems. When another body with
identical mutilations is discovered in Bangkok, he begs
permission to investigate that murder as well. By the time he
discovers the connection between them, Wright is in over his
head and too far in to back out. His only choice is to move
deeper into danger, courting the vengeance of a spook from
his past. Leather has a gift for making pages fly by as
bodies pile up, tension builds and clues drop parsimoniously;
effective, economical characterizations give the plot just
enough depth to captivate readers without hampering the
rapid-fire narrative.
Stephen Leather should be nestling in your bookshelves
alongside Frederick Forsyth and Jack Higgins. --
Daily Mail
From Publishers Weekly
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