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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Once a leading light in the new wave of British crime writers, Simon Kernick did not live up to his early promise and his intelligent and taut thrillers degenerated into predictable schlock. However, a good writer – no matter how sloppy – can still rise to the occasion, and The Witness is one of these risings. Independently rich maverick DI Ray Mason of the Counter Terrorism Command is targeted by assassin-for-hire The Wraith. Meanwhile South African Jane Kinnear is in a safe house after police learn she was the only witness to her lover and his wife being tortured to death. Twists, red herrings, and nail-biting suspense. no reviews | add a review
The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author of Relentless, The Last 10 Seconds and The Final Minute. 'I had a simple choice. Stay here, and almost certainly be discovered. Or get up and run.' THE WITNESS When Jane Kinnear sees her lover being murdered, she suddenly finds herself in danger. Taken to an anonymous police safe-house, it soon becomes clear that her lover was an MI5 informant with important information about an imminent terrorist attack. THE DETECTIVE DI Ray Mason of Counter Terrorism Command is a man with a controversial past, but his effectiveness at getting results means that he's now been given the task of preventing the attack from taking place. But can he be trusted, and does he know more about the attack than he's letting on? THE KILLER In the safe-house, Jane is trying to piece together a description of her lover's killer. But what she doesn't know is that the killer has already found out who she is, and where she is hiding. And now he's coming for her ... No library descriptions found. |
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i have read other Simon Kernick books and really really enjoyed Relentless but this was the first Ray Mason book i had read. I think the next one in the series is called The Bone Field and I shall be reading that at some point.
Two books read this week, starting a new one today. ( )