The Recruit by L.D. Sharpe - ISBN: 9780349138527
Paperback
Smart, frustrated Sarah Black leaps into espionage, but is she player or pawn?
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The Recruit

The clever, gripping first book in the Pelican Black spy thriller series

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    27 October 2026

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Summary

“It’s just so exciting to see a powerful female character like Sarah Black … This is a fast-paced espionage thriller that feels fresh and exciting . . It will keep you up far too late!” - Holly Watt

“Sarah Black’s wit and guile shines through . . a colourful, enjoyable book and the start of a promising series” - NetGalley reviewer, ?????

The spy game has a brand new player …

Sarah Black is startlingl…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349138527
ISBN-10:0349138524
Author:L.D. Sharpe
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Constable
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:27 October 2026
Weight:240g
Dimensions:196mm x 126mm x 24mm
Series:Pelican Black
About The Author

L.D. Sharpe

L.D. Sharpe has loved books for as long as she can remember – stories of adventure, of weird and wonderful places, and seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. She studied languages and philosophy at Oxford and joined the Foreign Office straight out of university. She quickly moved across to the Department for International Development (DFID), where she spent time in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, China and Sierra Leone. She left DFID to work for Her Majesty Queen Rania in Jordan, while spending much of her time bumping around the desert in a Land Rover.

After Jordan, she spent several years in a jungle camp in Gabon surrounded by elephants and humpback whales, which is where the Pelican Black books began. They took life as a way to record all the best bits of people she had met and places she had been, with a plot to make them much more exciting. L.D. Sharpe has always plausibly denied being a spy – but the books were written to show what that life might have been like.

She now lives with her family and two mad dogs in Namibia, growing giant kelp and running the Luderitz Blue School.

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