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Toxic Options - Couverture souple

Mann, James Douglas

 
9781807190293: Toxic Options
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1807190293 ISBN 13 : 9781807190293
Editeur : London Book Publishers, 2025

Synopsis

London in the early 1980s. A city of bookmakers, booming markets, hard men and harder consequences. For brothers Joss and Wayne Archer, the betting rings of White City and Walthamstow are their empire. Their bravado is legendary, their pitch the most vibrant in the stadium and their appetite for risk bigger than the fortunes they take home. On Derby Final night they land the biggest win of their lives. By dawn they have lost everything.

Ambushed outside their own shop by a masked gang wearing grotesque likenesses of Margaret Thatcher, the Archers are beaten, humiliated and robbed of more than a hundred thousand pounds. The thieves vanish into the night without a trace, leaving behind a wrecked business, a shattered reputation and a burning need for revenge.

Across the City another world is shifting. Sir Marcus Holderness, a knight of the realm and veteran of the London Stock Exchange, is reluctantly drawn back into public life as insider trading scandals sweep through the financial district. His new role places him at the centre of a growing storm, where illegal trades and shadowy alliances are threatening to destabilise the markets he once helped shape.

As the Archers hunt the criminals who destroyed their livelihood and Marcus follows the faint trails of corruption within the Square Mile, two very different worlds begin to collide. What starts as a violent street robbery unravels into something far deeper and more dangerous, involving people with far more to lose than money.

Toxic Options is a gripping crime thriller set against the gritty racetracks and secretive boardrooms of 1980s London. Packed with tension, dark humour and unforgettable characters, it exposes the thin line between luck and ruin, loyalty and betrayal, and justice and revenge. Perfect for readers who enjoy atmospheric British crime, gangland intrigue and high stakes financial drama.

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Éditeur
London Book Publishers
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1807190293
ISBN 13 
9781807190293
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
301
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