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Hostage
- Author
- Jamie Doward
- Narrator
- Peter Noble
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 5 January 2017
- Run Time
- 11 hours 33 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A bomb takes out a CIA station chief in Geneva. A serial killer strikes apparently at random across the UK. In Algeria a terrorist network that controls the illicit trade in guns, drugs, oil and cigarettes is preparing to murder a hundred US and British energy workers unless a ransom is paid. The British and the American intelligence services are competing to find the kidnappers for very different reasons.
One person can see how everything is linked, and that both MI5 and the CIA are being manipulated as part of a grotesque marketing campaign. But Kate Pendragon threatens vested interests who don't want the truth to surface. And some of them are very close to home...
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Details
- Author
- Jamie Doward
- Narrator
- Peter Noble
- Duration
- 11 hours 33 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 January 2017
- ISBN
- 9781405537162
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
Making a killing in the market...A bomb takes out a CIA station chief in Geneva. A serial killer strikes apparently at random across the UK. In Algeria a terrorist network that controls the illicit trade in guns, drugs, oil and cigarettes is preparing to murder a hundred US and British energy workers unless a ransom is paid. The British and the American intelligence services are competing to find the kidnappers for very different reasons. One person can see how everything is linked, and that both MI5 and the CIA are being manipulated as part of a grotesque marketing campaign. But Kate Pendragon threatens vested interests who don't want the truth to surface. And some of them are very close to home...
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