Book description
Why does a wealthy Scottish financier set up a drugs deal with the IRA?
Jeopardise his career, endanger his family and lover by tangling with
the East End underworld and a ruthless mercenary? The motive is simple:
revenge for a cold-blooded act of murder.
His adversary is a dangerous gangland boss whose connections stretch
from the Highlands to London and beyond. More than a match for a
newcomer, especially when his plans contain a fatal flaw which will be
discovered only when it is much too late . . . Stephen Leather is one
of the UK's most successful thriller writers. Before becoming a novelist
he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times
, the Daily Mail
and the South China Morning Post
in Hong Kong. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI,
shoveled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump
attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. He began writing
full time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into more than
ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as
London's Burning, The Knock
and the BBC's Murder in Mind
series and two of his books, The Stretch
and The Bombmaker
, were filmed for TV. You can find out more from his website, www.
stephenleather. com.
