Book description
The heart-stopping new thriller featuring FBI Special Agent Frank
Patrese, on the trail of a crazed serial killer targeting Ivy League colleges.
ONE GAME
Two weeks before Kwasi King, chess's answer to Muhammad Ali, is due to
defend his world title, his mother is found brutally murdered yards from
Yale University. A tarot card has been left next to her dismembered body.
TWO PLAYERS
Soon, more bodies turn up at other Ivy League colleges, all with tarot
cards. But while some have been killed in a frenzy, others were
dispatched with clinical precision. It looks like FBI Special Agent
Franco Patrese's looking for not just one killer, but two.
CHECK MATE
And while Patrese hunts, he knows that he too is being hunted, for he's
received his own tarot card. The Fool. Could he be the next victim of
this macabre intellectual battle? • Stunning. A 'Chinatown' for the
21st century' - Charles Cumming, NY Times bestselling author of THE
TRINITY SIX
• 'City of Sins starts with a tsunami and ends with a hurricane, and
nothing in between slows it down. A smart, scary, and relentless storm
overtaking a city held hostage by greed and disaster." - Andrew
Gross, NYTimes bestselling author
• 'Hugely entertaining' - Sean Black, author of the RYAN LOCK series
• Daniel Blake makes New Orleans the setting for a story that's as hot,
steamy and shot through with voodoo madness as the city itself. Highly
recommended!" - Tom Cain, author of THE ACCIDENT MAN and DICTATOR
• CITY OF SINS is a fast-paced, blood-soaked, full-throttle descent
into hell. Daniel Blake weaves an intricate plot, his dialogue rich and
spot-on and his characters-both good and gut-wrenchingly
evil-full-bodied and as real and fresh as morning rain. This is a
journey into the darkness that must not be missed. It is a novel that
quite simply demands to be read. To do otherwise would be a crime
-LORENZO CARCATERRA, author of SLEEPERS and MIDNIGHT ANGELS
• 'Blake keeps the dialogue razor sharp and the action hammer blunt
while tantalizing readers with a Sherlockian thriller that turns the
modern detective story on its head. If ever there was a character ripe
for transition to the big screen, Franco Patrese is it.' - Rupert Wyatt,
director of RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Daniel Blake worked as a
reporter on the Sun and the Daily Telegraph and then for Control Risk, a
company which specialises in kidnap negotiation, clandestine
investigations and political risk analysis. He was also one of the
youngest-ever contestants on Mastermind. Daniel studied at Cambridge and
currently lives in London.
