Book description
Andrea Hayes was one of the IRA's most deadly killers, until a
misplaced bomb ripped a group of passing kids apart, and she left all
that behind her. Now, years later, she's got a whole new life with a new
family and her days of violence seem a distant memory. But then her
daughter is kidnapped by persons unknown, and she is blackmailed into
building a huge explosive device for them - target unknown. . .
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.
