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Scorpion Trail
Scorpion Trail
Oct 5, 2024 1:42 PM

Author:Geoffrey Archer

Scorpion Trail

Twenty years out of the combat zone, hidden from killers, but now fate has thrust Alex Crawford back into the front line. Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders who have protected him for twenty years have reactivated him: they want information about the man who perpetrated a massacre in a Muslim village in Bosnia. His target is the most ruthless killer in the whole war zone: Milan Pravic, codename the Scorpion. And the only eyewitness to the massacre is a twelve-year-old girl whom Pravic will do anything to silence-

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Breathless fear and suspense

—— Daily Telegraph

'Elegant, spooky and a compulsive page turner'

—— Daily Mail

'A race-against-the-clock thriller and a complex psychological drama'

—— Irish Independent

'Torn apart by loyalties and suspicion, the tension gradually mounts as the pieces of the jigsaw finally fit together into a gripping psychological drama'

—— Choice

'Lives up to the promise of its remarkable predecessor, Shadow Dancer...confirms Bradby's considerable promise as a a thriller writer'

—— Daily Mail

Brilliant and compulsive

—— Evening Standard

A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction ... Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth

—— The Times
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