Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Fatal Game written by Nicholas Searle, read by Matthew Spencer.
A terrorist attack has just hit a busy railway station. Jake Winter was the British intelligence officer in charge of stopping the attack and now his career, and his conscience, are in freefall . . .
Jake's next anti-terror operation has to be a success. He has got himself a new source - a young British Asian man, Rashid, recently returned, apparently disillusioned, from battle, who he hopes is the key to foiling the next attack and to getting Jake to the leader of the network. But is Rashid really working for British intelligence, or has Jake put his faith in the wrong man once again?
A Fatal Game is the story of an organization, and a single man, in a state of panic. And panic is the last thing you need when you're playing a game like this . . .
Han är en man som har ljugit i hela sitt liv. Svindlaren Roy Courtnay, drygt åttio år gammal, bor i en engelsk förort och står inför sitt livs största kupp: Han ska förföra den rika änkan Betty, som han fått kontakt med via en dejtingsida, för att lura åt sig hennes pengar.
Men vem är Roy Courtnay? Vad har han tvingats gå igenom för att klara av att leva med alla sina lögner? Och varför tycks Betty vara så villig att bli hans nästa offer?
Steg för steg börjar historien nystas upp, i en psykologisk thriller som tar sin början i Berlin 1938 och sträcker sig över nästan ett sekel, en tid med inslag av ofattbar ondska, kraftfullt motstånd och anmärkningsvärd godhet.
Den gode lögnaren är en uppslukande historia om synd, frälsning och överlevnad och om att, till sist, göra upp räkningen med det förflutna.
NICHOLAS SEARLE är en brittisk kriminalförfattare född i Cornwall och numera bosatt i Yorkshire. Innan han började skriva arbetade han med säkerhetsfrågor som statstjänsteman, först i England och sedan i Nya Zeeland. Den gode lögnaren, hans debutroman, har blivit en av årets mest hyllade kriminalromaner i USA och England, och kan jämföras med bland annat John Le Carré och Patricia Highsmith.
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of A Traitor in the Family by Nicholas Searle, read by Ciaran McMenamin and Lisa Hogg.
'While her husband prepared to murder a young man he had never met, Bridget O'Neill completed her packing for Christmas with her in-laws.'
Francis O'Neill is a terrorist, trained to kill for his cause. Bridget is his wife, expected to be loyal and stand by her husband. She has learned not to hope for much more, until the day she glimpses, for the first time, the chance of a new life. A life without violence, without secrets, and without knocks on the door in the dead of night. A life without her husband.
But what if freedom for Bridget means grave danger for Francis?
In A Traitor in the Family, bestselling author, Nicholas Searle, tells a story of shocking, intimate betrayal. Can a treacherous act of the most personal kind ever be, in this darkly violent world, an act of mercy?
Spinning a page-turning story of literary suspense that begins in the present and unwinds back more than half a century, this unforgettable debut channels the haunting allure of Atonement as its masterfully woven web of lies, secrets, and betrayals unravels to a shocking conclusion.
Veteran con artist Roy spots an obvious easy mark when he meets Betty, a wealthy widow, online. In no time at all, he's moved into Betty's lovely cottage and is preparing to accompany her on a romantic trip to Europe. Betty's grandson disapproves of their blossoming relationship, but Roy is sure this scheme will be a success. He knows what he's doing.
As this remarkable feat of storytelling weaves together Roy's and Betty's futures, it also unwinds their pasts. Dancing across almost a century, decades that encompass unthinkable cruelty, extraordinary resilience, and remarkable kindness, The Good Liar is an epic narrative of sin, salvation, and survival-and for Roy and Betty, there is a reckoning to be made when the endgame of Roy's crooked plot plays out.
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle, read by Martin Jarvis.
This is a life told back to front.
This is a man who has lied all his life.
Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings.
But who is the man behind the con and what has he had to do to survive this life of lies?
And why is this beautiful woman so willing to be his next victim?
