The Confessor
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
' Brilliant thriller' Publishers Weekly
Everyone is looking for Geiger...
Detached and with an innate ability to recognize lies, Geiger was the best of the best in the field of Information Retrieval. Until he was asked to break his only rule and do the unthinkable - to torture a child. Something broke in Geiger's neatly controlled mind, opening up a flood of terrible memories long kept at bay. And now Geiger is missing, presumed dead.
But, with no body ever found, there are a number of people invested in finding out the truth. One of those people is Harry Boddicker, Geiger's old handler and friend. Another is his bitter rival, Dalton, who is determined to find Geiger and extract a final confession from him, before carrying out his deadly revenge.
But no one has reckoned on Zanni Soames - a woman more dangerous than any of them could imagine, and hell-bent on winning the race to find Geiger first.
The new novel from Mark Allen Smith is a masterfully written thriller that will send you spinning from New York to Paris and back again, and into the darkest depths of the man known only as Geiger.
Praise for Mark Allen Smith
'[A] brilliant, sometimes brutal, thriller' Publishers Weekly
'One of the most original thrillers since S. J. Watson's Before I Go To Sleep' Guardian
'An involving thriller that leaves you hoping for the return of its oddly winning hero' Kirkus
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Torture expert Geiger must confront his past to protect the only people he cares about in Smith's riveting sequel to 2012's The Inquisitor, the author's impressive debut. In The Inquisitor, Geiger, who once called himself an "information retrieval" expert and used torture, both physical and psychological, to force people to reveal their secrets, refused to torture the 12-year-old son of David Matheson, the head of an online whistle-blower site. Now Geiger has disappeared and is presumed dead. When he learns that his former partner, Harry Boddicker, and David have been lured to Paris by his nemesis, torture expert Dalton, he has no choice but to go there in search of them. Although Geiger, who's largely self-sufficient, gets help from Rosanna Soames, a government agent, as well as some unlikely sources, Dalton holds all the cards and sets the rules in the ensuing cat-and-mouse game. Geiger has to make some terrible sacrifices before this brilliant, sometimes brutal, thriller reaches a stunning climax.
