Shadow House - Couverture souple

Sendall, A.J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1530358361 ISBN 13 : 9781530358366

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

She lost her sister to the Sydney underworld. He lost his partner to the same poison.
Now they're going to burn it all down.

Heather Todd has spent her entire adult life on the fringes of Kings Cross, watching the Reed brothers' drug empire destroy countless lives. When her sister Carol dies from overcut cocaine, the grief is overwhelming—but it hardens into something else. Something dangerous.
Sam Autenburg is a man coming undone. A former MI6 operative and world sailor, he's been spiralling since his partner Marie died the same way. When a drunken night lands him in a back alley, he's pulled from the gutter by a woman with a proposition.
She wants revenge. He has the skills to get it.
Together, they embark on a plan to infiltrate the syndicate from the inside. But to get close to the kingpins, Sam must become one of them—running with killers like the terrifying Ray Peterson, and earning the trust of the shadowy fixer, Gary Mitchell. Heather is pulled back into a world she thought she'd escaped, using her connections to gather information while risking everything.
Their mission takes them from the violent back rooms of Sydney to a remote Caribbean island and a ten-thousand-mile voyage across the Pacific. But as they get closer to the truth, the danger intensifies. Someone is watching. Someone is tracking their every move. And when the final trap is sprung, it won't be on the mean streets of the Cross, but on the open ocean, where the only way out is down.
Shadow House is a gripping, atmospheric thriller about grief, vengeance, and the redemptive power of taking a stand. Perfect for fans of pulse-pounding suspense and unforgettable, high-stakes adventure.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

I've always written, as far back as I can recall anyway. Until 2011, that writing was just for me, or as rambling letters to friends, and travelogues to family. I never thought about why, or if others did similarly, and the thought of publishing never entered my head. Since I left England in 1979, I've travelled widely, collecting experiences, people, and places as I did so. From the blood-soaked streets of Kampala, the polluted dust bowls of the Sahara, or the pristine ice floes of the Antarctic, I gathered and filed them away. Some have recently squeezed through the bars of insecurity and are now at large in the pages of my first three novels. Others await their future fates. Although I grew up in Norfolk, UK, I never felt truly at home until I lived in Australia, and that is no doubt the reason my first published novels are set there. All of my books so far have some element of fact in them. I guess it's hard for any writer not to include events from their life. Our experiences shape our thoughts and the words and actions of our characters.I sometimes wish I'd become a novelist earlier in life, but then if I had, I wouldn't have the range of characters and events that I do. After spending much of my adult life travelling, I now live in a remote forest house in Germany with two Mexican dogs, an Icelandic horse, six French hens, and a mermaid who I found at a beach on the north coast of Bequia. My writing ritual. It depends on what stage I’m at, and what the scenes or chapter are like. If I need to get into character, I’ll sometimes watch part of a movie that’ll help take me there. Or sit in the dark and listen to the proceeding chapter, visualising the characters movements and moods. I write in the boiler room, which is in the cellar-what my family call the KGB room. It kinda looks like that. It’s sparse and hard, how I’d like to keep my writing. It has lots of pipes, valves and pressure gauges, and the faint smell of fuel oil. There's a single overhead light in a wire cage, and on the table, an ancient desklamp that spills a yellow glow behind the monitor. Some of my favourite books: Quiet - Susan Cain Franky Furboy - William Wharton Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E Lawrence The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum, and there are so many more. Each of these books has stayed with me, and in some way changed my life. None of them directly influences what I write, but all of them have influenced who I am.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1530358361
• ISBN 13: 9781530358366
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 463
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg