The Method
A Thriller
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- Erwartet am 20. Jan. 2026
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- 21,99 €
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From the author of The Night Agent—the #1 global Netflix sensation—comes an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a young actress who must go undercover in a deadly world of espionage to save her best friend…and herself.
A silent war.
An unlikely spy.
She’s done playing by their rules.
Actress Anna Vaughn is fearless—on screen, at least. She tends to play doomed brunettes with a badass streak, and has put in countless hours training for parts and learning how to fight, shoot, and drive like a pro.
She likes to believe she is as tough as her characters, but off-camera she leads a far quieter life: trying to keep her acting career alive so she can take care of her younger sister.
When her best friend Natalie, her rock, disappears after a night out with a mysterious new man, the signs point to foul play and a circle of spies operating in Manhattan. Anna must use all the tricks she’s learned for her roles to hunt for her missing friend. She quickly learns the dangers are all too real.
She crosses paths with Kevin Matthews, an FBI agent on the same trail, tracking a string of killings and disappearances and a powerful clique of oligarchs. With Matthews as her handler, she has only days to prepare for the greatest performance of her life—going undercover. She will follow in her friend’s footsteps through the gilded mansions, yachts, and secret clubs of New York to infiltrate the conspiracy and bring Natalie home.
As the killers close in, her only chance for survival is to become as lethal as the characters she once played.
No camera. No script. Just instinct.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Anna Vaughn, star of this fun if flimsy thriller from Quirk (Inside Threat), is a B-list actor slumming it in TV action dramas. She knows how to handle fake guns and pull her punches, but when her friend Natalie doesn't return from a night of bar-hopping in New York City, she vows to use her fists for real. Her doggedness attracts the attention of FBI agent Kevin Matthews, who's also looking for Natalie and agrees to give Anna a crash course in personal protection if she'll help the Bureau with its investigation. Soon, Anna is kicking and head-butting her way through an underworld of paid muscle, creepy hit men, and Arab oligarchs with bizarre sexual fixations like Crown Prince Aslan, who hails from a country called the Republic. Just as Anna is about to rescue Natalie, it dawns on her that Matthews may not be who he claims. The plot has holes—Aslan's intentions are muddy at best, as is a subplot concerning Anna's troubled sister—but it moves with the exuberance Quirk is known for, which is almost enough to paper over the implausibility of Anna's overnight transformation from actress to guerrilla fighter. Though it's far from the author's best, this has its pleasures.
