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January 2010 Book of the Month.
Daniel, the son of a disgraced MI5 chief and himself an MI5 operative, is about to fall foul of the same fate that befell his father. On the run and not knowing who to trust, we are delivered one cracking good read. A cut-above the norm with unexpected twists and turns, emotional and family complications and a vulnerable and highly endearing hero, this is first-rate.
Comparison: Lee Child, Tom Cain, Brett Battles.
Reviewed by Sarah BroadhurstSarah Broadhurst spent her early working life in the book trade in both retail and wholesale until the arrival of children forced her to look for freelance work she could do from…
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Re-inventing the spy story for the 21st Century.John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne!Suspended MI6 agent Daniel Marchant is running out of time. He's alongside a man strapped with explosives at the London Marathon. If they drop their speed the belt will detonate, killing all around them.
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Re-inventing the spy story for the 21st Century.John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne!Suspended MI6 agent Daniel Marchant is running out of time. He's alongside a man strapped with explosives at the London Marathon. If they drop their speed the belt will detonate, killing all around them.
But is Marchant secretly working for the terrorists?Marchant's father, ex-chief of MI6, was accused by the CIA of treachery. To prove his innocence, Marchant must take a perilous journey via Poland and India to unearth his father's dark past, test his relationship with fellow spy Leila and challenge the heavy hand of America's war on terror.Most of all, he has to learn to trust no one.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780007361632 |
| Publication date: |
7th January 2010 |
| Author: |
Jon Stock |
| Publisher: |
HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
400 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Action Adventure
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Jon Stock Press Reviews
"Dead Spy Running is a rip-roaring race of a read that never lets up until the finishing tape - and a bit beyond." ROBERT GODDARD
"As elegant as le Carre and as cynical as the twenty-first century ... exactly what we need from a spy novel now." LEE CHILD
"Smart, classy, and relentlessly gripping, DEAD SPY RUNNING
grabs the reader and doesn't let go. I couldn't quit turning the pages -- like Daniel Marchant running the London marathon, I couldn't stop." MEG GARDINER
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About Jon Stock
Jon Stock is currently Weekend editor of the Telegraph. He is the author of two novels, 'The Riot Act' and the 'Cardamom Club', and is also a columnist with The Week magazine in India. He lives in Wiltshire with his wife and three young children.
After reading English at Cambridge University, he worked as a freelance journalist in London, writing features for most of Britain's national newspapers, as well as contributing regularly to BBC Radio 4. He was also chosen for Carlton TV's acclaimed scriptwriters course. Between 1998 and 2000, he was Delhi correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. On his return to Britain, he worked on various Saturday sections of the paper before taking up a staff job as editor of Weekend in 2005. He has been writing the Last Word column in The Week since he lived in Cochin, South India in 1995.
'The Riot Act', published by Serpent's Tail, was launched on the 50th floor of Canary Wharf tower. The book was shortlisted by the Crime Writers' Association for its best first novel award and was subsequently published by Gallimard in France as part of its acclaimed Serie Noir. The 'Cardamom Club' was published by Blackamber (now Arcadia Books) in Britain and by Penguin in India. Both were spy novels.
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