Special Agent Vincent Piper is an FBI Field Officer based in London. Any crime involving Americans is his business. He's estranged from his wife and he loves his only daughter Martha, but she is drifting away from him. A terrorist bomb goes off in Borders bookshop in Charing Cross road and as Vincent surveys the carnage, he starts to weep. He had arranged to meet Martha in the bookshop. She dies in his arms. Vincent vows revenge and relentlessly pursues all the leads he can find on active anticapitalist groups. But what he discovers is even more shocking than his daughters' death...
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Tom Neale is a London born freelance writer whose work has appeared widely in the national press both in the UK and Ireland. He travelled extensively in the United States during the 90s, on assignment for magazines but he currently lives outside Dublin with his Irish girlfirend. His hobbies include windsurfing and clay pigeon shooting, although, to date, rarely at the same time. This is his first novel.
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. English Steel Rain is the debut thriller by British journalist and author Tom Neale, published in 2005. The story follows FBI agent Vincent Piper, who is stationed in London and becomes directly affected by a terrorist bombing at a bookshop on Charing Cross Road, where his daughter is killed. Devastated by the loss, Piper begins a relentless personal pursuit of those responsible. As he follows the trail, the investigation leads him toward radical anti-capitalist groups and reveals a broader and more complex conspiracy. The novel combines a personal revenge narrative with elements of political intrigue and counter-terrorism, reflecting the atmosphere of the early twenty-first century when fiction often explored fears surrounding international terrorism, ideological extremism, and the difficult moral questions faced by security services and individuals seeking justice. N° de réf. du vendeur 10218353
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