Book description
In The Fish Kisser, a megalomaniac becomes determined to
exact revenge on the Western world through a devious plot of global
cyber-warfare. He enlists his own agents to track down and kidnap the
experts and educated elite that can help him accomplish the
unthinkable. With a series of staged deaths and disappearances, he
sets his plan in motion.
When the hired henchmen target Roger LeClarc, an English computer
expert with a dark secret of his own, the hunters become the hunted.
English detective David Bliss, who chased and was chased around the
English countryside in Missing: Presumed Dead, teams up with
Dutch detective Yolanda Pieters to solve this improbable affair.
Fighting internal politics, stumbling upon government cover-ups, and
even battling Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, together they chase a
trail of blood, intrigue, and romance across Europe to Iraq in a
desperate search for the kidnapped specialists. Fans of the David
Bliss character will not be disappointed as James Hawkins turns the
action up several notches.
"Hawkins ties all the threads together and keeps the tension
crackling for 440 pages."
James Hawkins was a police commander
in the U. K. for 20 years and a Canadian private investigator for a
further 8 years. He was also director of education at the Canadian
Institute for Environmental Investigations. His debut novel,
Missing: Presumed Dead (2001), was shortlisted for the Arthur
Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
