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This is the first time I’ve written a political thriller. I enjoyed writing it. The intensity and need to keep turning the story every two or three pages together with the demand for continual drama, movement and conflict was a challenge that I hope I’ve met. Several scenes are set in and around Moscow. To complete my research I travelled to the city and spent an enjoyable and interesting two or three days accompanied by my eldest son.

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Storyline

Jake Armstrong is investigating a major art theft. But he has a private agenda; he wants to find the recipient of his wife’s heart. She died after being caught up in a terrorist explosion in Leicester Square, killing over 1,000 people.

Grigoriy Nabutov, a Russian business man, is believed to have links with organised crime. He also has a vast collection of suspiciously acquired art and wants The Black Square, a Futurist painting by Kasimir Malevich, to add to his collection. Jake offers it to him; but so does a Chechnya-based Islamic terrorist organisation, Yarmuk Jamaat, wanting to exchange the painting for a supply of
weapon grade uranium.

Becky Rackley is a British spy. Jake meets her at a party. Their conversation leads them both to believe, unknown to the other, that they are somehow linked. Becky received a transplanted heart on the same day and at the same hospital as Jake’s wife’s heart was donated.

Drawn to each other, the book unfolds as the two get deeper into their own missions, and deeper into each other. Becky’s mission to locate a group of Islamic fundamentalists, thought by MI5 to have acquired nuclear weapon materials, and Jake’s mandate to find the missing painting ultimately brings them together. Becky and Jake become immersed in a potentially catastrophic international incident in which the terrorists prepare to launch a nuclear missile at the West while Jake looks death in the face.

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