Good News, Bad News by David Wolstencroft  (19)
|
Last Spymaster, The by Gayle Lynds  (48)
|
The Last Assassin (John Rain Thrillers (Hardcover)) by Barry Eisler (55)
|
Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
A fast-paced, wide-ranging opening sequence introduces the characters;and their immediate fates;in this derivative second thriller (after 2004's Good News, Bad News) from the writer and creator of the excellent British television series MI-5. Newly minted British spies, undercover on their first international assignments, are dying in what appears to be a series of random accidents and attacks. Lucy Matthews, Benjamin Sinclair and Nat Turner manage to survive and band together after it becomes clear their unnamed agency wants them dead. Their only option is something called Contact Zero: "The most secret secret society on the planet," a haven for spies on the run. It's a great (if familiar) premise, but too much of the wrong kind of backstory (young spies in training and in love) and not enough of the right kind (what's the agency up to?) slow the plot. Main character Ben is fairly well developed (he resents his place in the middle of the class structure), but most of the characters are cut from thin cloth. Still, the author provides some convincing glimpses into the world of contemporary spycraft.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
From the author of Good News, Bad News (2004) comes this intense thriller about young spies cut adrift. When Ben Sinclair, freshly graduated from Britain's Spy School, learns that several of his classmates have died under unusual circumstances, he knows something is up--because someone has already tried to kill him, too. Framed for a crime he didn't commit, abandoned by his handlers, Ben teams up with a couple of his surviving friends, Lucy and Nat. Together, they try to reach safety by finding Contact Zero, the legendary (and possibly mythical) haven for spies who no longer have a home. This is a killer novel. Not only does the author know his subject backward and forward (he created the hit TV series Spooks, known as MI-5 in the U.S.), but he is an excellent writer, too, with a knack for finding a unique turn of phrase and for keeping us on our toes with unexpected right-angle turns in the story. Spy-novel aficionados, and regular MI-5 viewers, will definitely want to give this one a look. David Pitt
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
A fast-paced, wide-ranging opening sequence introduces the characters;and their immediate fates;in this derivative second thriller (after 2004's Good News, Bad News) from the writer and creator of the excellent British television series MI-5. Newly minted British spies, undercover on their first international assignments, are dying in what appears to be a series of random accidents and attacks. Lucy Matthews, Benjamin Sinclair and Nat Turner manage to survive and band together after it becomes clear their unnamed agency wants them dead. Their only option is something called Contact Zero: "The most secret secret society on the planet," a haven for spies on the run. It's a great (if familiar) premise, but too much of the wrong kind of backstory (young spies in training and in love) and not enough of the right kind (what's the agency up to?) slow the plot. Main character Ben is fairly well developed (he resents his place in the middle of the class structure), but most of the characters are cut from thin cloth. Still, the author provides some convincing glimpses into the world of contemporary spycraft.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
From the author of Good News, Bad News (2004) comes this intense thriller about young spies cut adrift. When Ben Sinclair, freshly graduated from Britain's Spy School, learns that several of his classmates have died under unusual circumstances, he knows something is up--because someone has already tried to kill him, too. Framed for a crime he didn't commit, abandoned by his handlers, Ben teams up with a couple of his surviving friends, Lucy and Nat. Together, they try to reach safety by finding Contact Zero, the legendary (and possibly mythical) haven for spies who no longer have a home. This is a killer novel. Not only does the author know his subject backward and forward (he created the hit TV series Spooks, known as MI-5 in the U.S.), but he is an excellent writer, too, with a knack for finding a unique turn of phrase and for keeping us on our toes with unexpected right-angle turns in the story. Spy-novel aficionados, and regular MI-5 viewers, will definitely want to give this one a look. David Pitt
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
