Reflex Action - Couverture souple

Fitzsimons, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0992779723 ISBN 13 : 9780992779726

Editeur : Spitfire Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

It is twelve years since Ernest Fisher defected to the West, twelve years during which he has tried to elude his past -to forget the wariness, the fear and the cunning that once made him a successful undercover operative in the security service of his former homeland. Twelve years in which he has gradually settled down to the quiet anonymity of suburban life, an insurance clerk's job, a wife and children. And during these years he has sought to bury the bitterness which drove him to swear an oath of vengeance - never fulfilled - on his former chief, the man who betrayed him.Now his old enemy is visiting Britain in the new role of trade minister, and Ernest Fisher is abruptly made aware that his own life is in mortal peril - that the man he once swore to kill is protecting himself by arranging to have Fisher eliminated.So begins this exciting novel of suspense - one of the most gripping tales of hunter and the hunted since Geoffrey Household's classic, Rogue Male.Running and hiding, having to run again, Fisher is forced to re-learn his almost-forgotten training in a desperate effort to save himself and his family. For this hunting ground is no vast wilderness but the streets of the city where an office, a car park ¬even his own home - can hide a trap primed to snap shut on himself, his wife, his children. As the enemy systematically blocks every avenue of escape, Fisher turns into a cornered animal, consumed by the anger and fear that first made him swear that oath to kill. Deftly and ingeniously, with ever-mounting tension, Chris Fitzsimons leads us into the soul of the hunted, until the moment when one finds the other in the cross hairs of a telescopic sight...

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Chris Fitzsimons’s novels created a stir when they were first published in the 1980s by Hodder and Stoughton in the UK and by Viking Press and Atheneum in the USA. They were also published in Japan, Germany and Italy. They have now been re-released in both book format and – for the first time - in Kindle editions. Suspense is the keynote in Fitzsimons’s stories. As one reviewer said when they first appeared, if you start reading in the evening be prepared to stay up into the small hours. Chris Fitzsimons was born and educated in Liverpool where he worked as a journalist on various newspapers before entering local government public relations. He lives in England, is married with three children and two grandchildren. As well as publishing novels he has had plays produced on television and radio in the UK and other countries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spitfire Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0992779723
• ISBN 13: 9780992779726
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible