Hostage by Jamie Doward - ISBN: 9781472115577
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Murder, kidnapping, and a grotesque plot threaten everything Kate Pendragon knows.

Hostage

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    368 pages

  • Release Date

    9 January 2017

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Summary

Making a killing in the market…

A bomb takes out a CIA station chief in Geneva. A serial killer strikes apparently at random across the UK. In Algeria a terrorist network that controls the illicit trade in guns, drugs, oil and cigarettes is preparing to murder a hundred US and British energy workers unless a ransom is paid. The British and the American intelligence services are competing to find the kidnappers for very different reasons.

One person can see how everything is li…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472115577
ISBN-10:1472115570
Author:Jamie Doward
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Constable
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:9 January 2017
Weight:258g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 24mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘There is plenty of suspense in this well-written and ambitious first novel’

‘There is plenty of suspense in this well-written and ambitious first novel’ - Literary Review

Doward’s prose is smooth and pacy, and he conjures up a vivid and convincing world of spooks, gangsters, whitsleblowers and assassins. It all makes for a slick, brainy and very timely spy thriller, played out with cinematic verve on a fast moving international stage. An extremely entertaining debut - Sunday Mirror

About The Author

Jamie Doward

Jamie Doward has been a journalist on the Observer for nearly twenty years. In his career, he has worked as a business reporter, the Home Affairs editor, the Religious Affairs correspondent, the Social Affairs Editor, the diarist and the Senior Reporter.

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