Category: Political thriller
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Not In My Name by Michael Coolwood – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What if the British people had been given a vote about invading Iraq in 2003. And the referendum split the nation with a 52% to 48% yes vote. A young activist is beaten to death after an anti-war demonstration. The police say her murder was random. It wasn’t. More activists will be murdered. […]
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Plague by Julie Anderson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB There are many ways to die. Plague is just one of them. Work on a London tube line is halted by the discovery of an ancient plague pit and, within it, a very recent corpse. A day later another body is found, killed in the same way, also in a plague pit. This […]
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The Kompromat Kill by Michael Jenkins – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB They were preparing for decades – now it’s time to take them down. When a British Diplomat is kidnapped in the heart of London, followed by a brutal double-assassination in Chelsea, MI5 braces for the threat of deep sleeper cells coming alive. Hiding overseas with a price on his head, Sean Richardson […]
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The F*ck It List by John Niven – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You are dying. Who do you kill? Set in a near-future America, an America that has borne two terms of a Trump Presidency and is now in the first term of Donald’s daughter as president, Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, lives in a world where the populist policies Trump is currently […]
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The Treadstone Resurrection by Joshua Hood – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Working as a cabinet-maker in rural Oregon, Adam thinks he has left Treadstone – the CIA Black Ops programme – in the past, until he receives a mysterious email from a former colleague, and soon after is attacked by an unknown hit team at his job site. Operation Treadstone has nearly ruined Adam […]
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Deep State by Chris Hauty – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Hayley Chill isn’t your typical West Wing intern. Ex-military and as patriotic as she is principled, she is largely vilified by her peers and lauded by her superiors – it’s a quick way of making enemies. It is Hayley who finds the body of the White House chief of staff, Peter Hall, on […]