The Murder Exchange
a relentless, race-against-time from bestselling author Simon Kernick
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Publisher Description
Perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Stuart MacBride and Peter James, The Murder Exchange is a thills, spills and kills all-action novel guaranteed to get under the skin. Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick - the UK's answer to Harlan Coben - has done it again. So fasten your seat belts and hang on tight for a fantastic ride!
'I love this book! It's hard, fast and tight and blasts through the London underworld like a speed boat on the Thames' -- Lee Child
'Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!' -- Harlan Coben
'This book hooks you from the first page and doesn't let go until the enda fantastic read' -- ***** Reader review
'Classic Kernick. Fast paced and hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review
'Gripping, like all his books - keeps you on the edge of your seat' -- ***** Reader review
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THE CURRENCY IS DEATH
Five grand for a couple of hours work?
It seems easy money, but the deal ex-mercenary Max Iversson is chasing has gone disastrously wrong. Two of his friends are dead. And now he wants to find out who's behind their killings.
Detective Sergeant John Gallan is also looking for answers. He's investigating the fatal poisoning of a nightclub doorman. But leads are scarce and, when they do appear, so do bodies.
What neither man knows is that they are heading towards a devastating confrontation that will see one of them staring down the wrong end of a gun.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
If British author Kernick's second gritty crime novel doesn't quite measure up to his superb debut, The Business of Dying (2003), with which it shares a few secondary characters, it still has plenty of rewards, including two first-person narrators. The paths of Max Iversson, a former mercenary now working as a private security guard, and Det. Sgt. John Gallan, an honest and dedicated officer trying to regain his previous rank as an inspector, intersect after a routine bodyguard job goes disastrously wrong for Iversson, resulting in the murder of his client and the death of the two other hired guards. The body count continues to climb as various members of a vicious London gang with connections to the Balkans turn up dead while Gallan's pursuit of Iversson continues. Both narrators adopt a slightly arch comic tone, which makes the story less dark and less powerful than The Business of Dying, but the clever writing ("he delivered his lines with all the urgency of Roger Moore's James Bond, like he might fall asleep before the end of the sentence") and numerous plot twists will engage many readers. Kernick again manages to adhere to the best fair-play traditions of classic murder mysteries while spinning a highly untraditional tale. The mix of brutality and humor should appeal to Elmore Leonard fans.
