By Tim Stevens
E-book ONE within the JOHN PURKISS SERIES
The police have inner Affairs departments. British Intelligence has John Purkiss, the Ratcatcher.
Purkiss's activity is easy. tune down brokers of the intelligence providers who're taking kickbacks, committing crimes, or differently abusing their positions. and produce them to justice.
Straightforward doesn't suggest easy...
After a renegade British former spymaster, Fallon, is sighted within the Baltic urban of Tallinn at the eve of a historical summit assembly among the Russian and Estonian presidents, Purkiss is sent to enquire, and uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to rip Europe, and the realm, apart.
But Purkiss has own purposes for going after Fallon. 4 years in the past, Fallon used to be sentenced to lifestyles imprisonment for the homicide of Purkiss's fiancée, a homicide Purkiss himself witnessed.
Now, in an environment of treachery and unexpected violence, because the countdown starts to a almost certainly catastrophic clash among Russia and the West, Purkiss needs to continue his wish for revenge below regulate for the sake of the world's - and his personal - survival.
Described in Amazon reports as a "cracker of a secret agent thriller" with "superbly choreographed motion scenes" that "leave you feeling virtually dizzy", RATCATCHER is either an adrenaline-fuelled motion event novel and a hardboiled secret tale which exposes the area of the undercover agent, within which few causes and activities are in simple terms black or white.
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Ring back. ” The phone was trilling as he walked through the door. He hadn’t spoken to Maggie for eighteen months, since they’d bumped into one another in the Playhouse bar during the interval of a Willy Russell play, but it might have been yesterday as she came on to the line. Her voice was as warm as ever, although it faltered a little as she commiserated with him. ” “Yes,” she said. “Yes, of course. ” “I was hoping, right away. ” “You know the Traders’ Club in Old Hall Street? We have a firm’s membership there.
For all he knew, she might be at the Demi-Monde or Huskisson’s with some new bloke she’d just picked up. Of course, he should blame himself for succumbing to the temptation of her note like an addict craving for another fix. “Well, that’s enough from me,” said the compère and a slurred voice from the audience bellowed assent. “Now is the moment you’ve all been waiting for. ” He rolled off the last word with a Gallic flourish before rising to a new crescendo: “Yes, ladies and gentlemen. The enchanting.
A handwritten card on the door said that the Freak Shop would be closed this afternoon. The truanting schoolkids who were pressing their noses to the glass, admiring the naughty nighties, could goggle to their hearts’ content. Further down the road, he paused for a moment outside Mama Reilly’s. But there was no reason to go inside and it was time to return to Fenwick Court. Back at New Commodities House, Suzanne’s sheikh had presumably got his woman and the switchboard girl was now tackling a thousand-pager about sex in Hollywood.