HARD KNOCKS: #03: Charlie Fox crime mystery thriller series - Couverture souple

Sharp, Zoe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909344451 ISBN 13 : 9781909344457

Editeur : ZACE Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

“If Jack Reacher were a woman, he’d be Charlie Fox.” ~Lee Child

If the Army had known what she would turn into, would they ever have let her go?

Charlie Fox didn’t really care who shot dead her ex-army comrade during a bodyguard training course in Germany. But when old flame Sean Meyer asks her to go undercover at Major Gilby’s elite school and find out what happened, she just can’t refuse.

Keeping her nerve isn’t easy as events bring back fears and memories she’s worked so hard to forget. And trying to blend in by playing down her abilities proves a real challenge.

She’s going to need all her skills. There are secrets at Einsbaden Manor worth killing for, and some of the students have more on their minds than simply learning about close protection.

Subjects like revenge, and murder.

And what’s the connection between Major Gilby and the spate of vicious kidnappings that have left a trail of bodies halfway across Europe? 

Charlie expected training to be tough, but will she graduate from this school of hard knocks alive?

If you like strong yet believable female protagonists, who will take down the bad guys without hesitation but who are still human enough to care, then Charlie Fox is definitely for you. Readers have found this second instalment an action-packed thrill ride that kept them glued to the end, well-written, gritty, and hard to put down. A real page turner. *Revised and updated edition

Author’s Note:
This is Book #3 in the long-running Charlie Fox series. If you want to find out her backstory—how she began working with Sean Meyer after their time in the Army—this is where to look. If you’re more interested in Charlie’s career as a close-protection operative, then I’d recommend you begin with Book #4, FIRST DROP, when she and her teenage charge find themselves on the run during her first bodyguard job in Florida. 

★★★★★ PRAISE FOR ZOE SHARP AND CHARLIE FOX
*“If Jack Reacher were a woman, he’d be Charlie Fox,” ~Lee Child
*“A fast-moving, well written, excellent read,” ~The Bookseller
*“Think of these as the early years of Charlie Fox … your chance to discover Charlie as she discovers herself, her strengths and her weaknesses, and sustains the scars to her body and soul that make her such a unique and compelling character.” ~Lee Goldberg, bestselling US author and TV producer
*“Ill-tempered, aggressive, and borderline psychotic, Fox is also compassionate, introspective, and highly principled…one of the coolest heroines in contemporary mystery fiction.” ~Chicago Tribune
*“Sharp's heroine Charlie Fox has to be one of the best characters in the crime thriller genre.” ~Graham Smith, crimesquad

★★★★★ READER REVIEWS
*“Brilliant Charlie Fox at her devastating best. The more Zoe Sharp books I read the more I am getting hooked.”
*“OK I confess, I've become a Charlie Fox nut, but what's not to like? A great whodunnit with a kick-ass heroine. If you like Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, you'll love this!”
*“Zoe Sharp is right up there with Connolly and Baldacci in the crime thriller range.”
*“Loved the setting for this one too, and the great high-speed race along the autobahn to save the girl (not Charlie, of course) … Sharp's writing shines.”
*“Bottom Line: Great series. Great Book. Highly recommended.”
*“Zoe Sharp is a new discovery for me and she equals Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell, Tess Gerritsen and many more of the great crime/mystery writers.”
*“Glued from start to finish."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Zoe ​Sharp opted out of mainstream education at the age of 12 and wrote her first novel at 15. She went through a variety of strange professions before becoming a photojournalist in 1988. It was after receiving death threats in the course of her work that she started writing the first of her award-winning crime thriller series featuring Special Forces dropout-turned-bodyguard, Charlotte 'Charlie' Fox, which has been optioned for film/TV. When not travelling, crewing yachts, riding motorcycles or improvising everyday objects for self-defence purposes, she can be found renovating houses or international pet-sitting. Find out more and sign up for her VIP list at www.ZoeSharp.com, follow her on Twitter, Instagram, or goodreads @AuthorZoeSharp, or Facebook @ZoeSharpAuthor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ZACE Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909344451
• ISBN 13: 9781909344457
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 362
• 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