Results for 'mick herron'

1. Anthony , Frazer

Blind Trust

Marcus Caine is sixty-eight, charming, brilliant, and the founder of one of Boston's most successful hedge funds. He has spent thirty years building it. He has no intention of being the man who destroys it.When the fund's audit committee, acting on a forensic accountant's quiet observation about fee calculations, hires Aldridge Associates to investigate, Caine becomes the subject of an inquiry he does not yet know is happening - and Bartholomew Aldridge's team has six weeks of cover before the firm realises an outside investigator is inside its walls.What follows is a chess match. Aldridge's analyst Oliver Stone reconstructs an extraction architecture across four streams. Caine, when the cover breaks, deploys the legal and political defences of a man who has prepared for this moment for years. The confrontation between the two of them, when it comes, will not produce a confession. It will produce an argument - and the argument will reveal more than the evidence alone could prove.Blind Trust is the fourth novel in the Associates series. An intellectual thriller about how the most consequential corruption of our era does not look like corruption - and about what it costs the people who see it clearly to act on what they have seen.

Crimebits 3

A puzzle book for crime fans, introduced by Mick HerronCrimeBits is back with a new collection of 100 first pages of thrillers, selected by best-selling author Mick Herron. An exclusive introduction from Herron is included, alongside Murdle-esque linked mystery logic puzzles. Writing challenges, crime trivia, brain-teasers, and editor’s notes are also included. The original Crimebits, selected by Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series, was published in 2024.

1. Anthony , Frazer

Blind Trust

Marcus Caine is sixty-eight, charming, brilliant, and the founder of one of Boston's most successful hedge funds. He has spent thirty years building it. He has no intention of being the man who destroys it.When the fund's audit committee, acting on a forensic accountant's quiet observation about fee calculations, hires Aldridge Associates to investigate, Caine becomes the subject of an inquiry he does not yet know is happening - and Bartholomew Aldridge's team has six weeks of cover before the firm realises an outside investigator is inside its walls.What follows is a chess match. Aldridge's analyst Oliver Stone reconstructs an extraction architecture across four streams. Caine, when the cover breaks, deploys the legal and political defences of a man who has prepared for this moment for years. The confrontation between the two of them, when it comes, will not produce a confession. It will produce an argument - and the argument will reveal more than the evidence alone could prove.Blind Trust is the fourth novel in the Associates series. An intellectual thriller about how the most consequential corruption of our era does not look like corruption - and about what it costs the people who see it clearly to act on what they have seen.

1. James E. , Mack

The Kill Chain

HUNT A TRAITOR HIDDEN DEEP IN BRITISH INTELLIGENCE IN THIS HIGH-OCTANE MILITARY THRILLER, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWPERFECT FOR FANS OF TOM CLANCY AND ZERO DARK THIRTY---There's a traitor - a high-level Russian asset known as NOMAD - embedded deep in the heart of British intelligence. Whoever they are, they're playing a game only the dead understand . . .When a British Special Forces team vanishes on a deniable mission inside the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, retired intelligence office Brock is drawn into investigate. Uncovering whispers of a traitor in British ranks, Brock teams up with an off-the-books SBS unit, REDKNIFE, to unmask the threat. But as reports of further failed British Military operations emerge it's clear there's more at stake than revenge. The dots connect across Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Britain and beyond, but all leads point to one man: Lawrence Taylor.But when Taylor is shot dead by his own wife, MI5 officer Anna, during a covert operation in Dubrovnik, the threat - and the truth - doesn't die with him. NOMAD is still out there: waiting, watching. And it seems Anna's secrets run deeper than anyone suspects . . .

1. Ian , Rankin

The Heights

MURDER COMES TO LONDON'S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT.The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde Park. Newly built from steel and smoked glass, a billionaire's playground offering sumptuous suites for the global elite.But when a night concierge is found murdered in the lobby, the building's rarefied atmosphere is shattered, and the gilded lives within come under intense police scrutiny.In a world designed to keep prying eyes out, where the residents are not used to being held to account, born-and-bred Londoner Detective Gillian Gish must find a way past their power, wealth and unimaginable influence.The rules may be different at the top - but is anyone truly above the law? Or could it be that the higher you rise, the further you fall...?THE FIRST STANDALONE THRILLER IN TWO DECADES FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKINA brand-new full-length novel, expanded from the previously published short story The Rise. *****PRAISE FOR THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKIN: 'Ian Rankin is a genius'LEE CHILD'Great fiction, full stop'THE TIMES 'Whatever he writes, it will be worth reading ... Rankin has redefined the genre'GUARDIAN 'Rankin is a phenomenon'SPECTATOR 'Worthy of Agatha Christie at her best'SCOTSMAN 'The king of crime fiction'SUNDAY EXPRESS 'The arrival of a Rankin novel remains one of life's pleasures'EXPRESS *****

1. Jack , Stewart

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