The best public defender in Prosper, Kendall has stumbled upon the town's chilling secret - and her marriage to one of the town's most powerful men has become a living hell. Now Kendall is a terrified mother trying to save her child's life.
The Witness
β Scribed by Kernick, Simon
- Publisher
- Random House;Cornerstone
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 240 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 178089080X
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β¦ Synopsis
The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author of Relentless, The Last 10 Seconds and The Final Minute.
I had a simple choice. Stay here, and almost certainly be discovered.
Or get up and run.
THE WITNESS
When Jane Kinnear sees her lover being murdered, she suddenly finds herself in danger. Taken to an anonymous police safe-house, it soon becomes clear that her lover was an MI5 informant with important information about an imminent terrorist attack.
THE DETECTIVE
DI Ray Mason of Counter Terrorism Command is a man with a controversial past, but his effectiveness at getting results means that hes now been given the task of preventing the attack from taking place. But can he be trusted, and does he know more about the attack than hes letting on?
THE KILLER
In the safe-house, Jane is trying to piece together a description of her lovers killer. But what she doesnt know is that the killer has already found out who she is, and where she is hiding.
And now hes coming for her
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Review
"Full of Kernick's trademark cheerful amoral characters, it's irresistible entertainment" Sunday Mirror "A spectacularly fast moving and captivating read." Lovereading
About the Author
SIMON KERNICK is one of Britain's most exciting thriller writers. He arrived on the crime writing scene with his highly acclaimed debut novel The Business of Dying, the story of a corrupt cop moonlighting as a hitman. Simon's big breakthrough came with his novel Relentless which was the biggest selling thriller of 2007. His most recent crime thrillers include The Last Ten Seconds, The Payback, Siege and Ultimatum. Simon talks both on and off the record to members of the Counter Terrorism Command and the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, so he gets to hear first hand what actually happens in the dark and murky underbelly of UK crime.
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