One of the very best thrillers of the last twenty years. Second novel by Stevens, now published as an ebook and still stunningly relevant to the Middle East conflict. The lives of three families converge: a Jewish family finally allowed out of Russia after years of persecution; a Palestinian family displaced by the Israelis from their ancestral home in Bethlehem; an English family from Hereford, home of the SAS: hostage, highjacker, rescuer but who is really the villain, who is really the victim? A super novel of international intrigue and heartbreaking suspense.
A major international thriller now available as an ebook for the first time.A superbly plotted novel flowing from Moscow to London and New York, the definitive thriller about the explosion of greed that is the new Russia, the murky forces operating within and behind it, and our involvement with them.A love story, a thriller, a mystery. It begins with the failure of a CIA agent to prevent the assassination of a Russian double-agent trying to tip him off about the coup to topple Gorbachev in 1991.It continues with Alina, the daughter of the murdered man, running a business in Moscow and coming up against two men investigating a big theft from an insurance company. The two men are themselves unaware of their connection one was the assassin, one the CIA man and so the scene is set for a game of plot and counter plot involving love, revenge and millions of dollars culminating in the tiny town of Moscow, Idaho, USA.Moscow USA has all of Stevenss trademark elements double-shock suspense, a great sense of humanity, topicality, inside knowledge and intelligence.
A SAS group, led by a man called Finn, is operating in Bosnia, directing air strikes against Serb positions. They are attacked but their lives are saved by a Muslim woman, Kara. Karas game is altogether bigger, more shocking and more important. Once, behind the lines in Bosnia, she saved the lives of two SAS soldiers. And they made Kara a promise. We will never forget. Anything you want, you have. Anything you need, you get. Now the tables are turned. Karas in the West Paris, Amsterdam London. And shes dangerous. Now the powers-that-be call her a terrorist. Now the SAS have been sent to kill her. So what about their promise?
It was the sort of day you remembered. Where you were when you heard and what you were doing; who you turned to and who you telephoned. This is not 22 November 1963, but now. This is KENNEDYS GHOST, a nerve-shredding thriller of kidnap, conspiracy and assassination. Former SAS man Dave Haslam is hired to negotiate the release of a top banker being held to ransom in Italy. In America, Deputy Director Brettlaw of the CIA has dark reasons of his own to fear for the bankers safety, while charismatic politician Jack Donaghue is striding ever closer to the White House and the deepest secret of the Camelot years. Haslam, Brettlaw, Donaghue: three men on a collision course, on a switchback ride of intrigue and suspense, on the shocking trail of KENNEDYS GHOST.
Two women one war no rules. The IRA activates the perfect assassin a sleeper who is a trained killer but who has built a perfectly normal identity in England. The target is PinMan a member of the Royal Family. Once the plot is started, there are no cut-outs; not even the Army Council of the IRA can stop it.