Vicious Circle
Hector Cross 2
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3.8 • 61 Ratings
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
THE SECOND HECTOR CROSS THRILLER FROM WILBUR SMITH. PERFECT FOR FANS OF BOURNE AND LEE CHILD'S JACK REACHER SERIES.
He'll stop at nothing to protect the ones he loves.
Hector Cross is under siege. After a lifetime of making enemies, Cross has settled down, but it seems someone missed the memo. When his life is turned upside down in a brutal attack, Cross recognises the handiwork of a terrorist organisation from his past and swears vengeance.
But as he follows the trail across the globe a new more terrifying battle begins. For there are worse things in Cross's world than terrorist kidnappers. Can he save those he loves - or will he pay the ultimate price?
The second Hector Cross thriller. Book 1 in the series, Those in Peril, is out now in paperback and ebook.
REVIEWS
'As adventurous, violent and artful as ever' - Libby Purves, Midweek on BBC Radio 4
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
London security expert Hector Cross, now married to Hazel Bannock ("seventh on Forbes magazine's list of the richest women in the world"), continues his battle with Somali warlord Tippoo Tip in bestseller Smith's lurid sequel to 2011's Those in Peril. Early on, a Mercedes van driven by a man wearing a Richard Nixon mask deliberately broadsides the red Ferrari that Hazel is driving on her way home to Brandon Hall, the couple's 18th-century estate outside Winchester. After extensive sleuthing and a long backstory set in a prison, Hector tracks down the perpetrators of the attack to a hilltop fortress in tiny Kazundu, "the poorest country on the African continent." Readers, especially new ones, should be prepared for descriptions of death in all its many gory possibilities, as well as scenes of rape (both hetero- and homosexual), child molestation, sexual slavery, and torture. The exciting action scenes and larger-than-life characters, though, will appeal to a broad range of thriller fans.
Customer Reviews
Tough to read.
The violence gets worse as the story evolves.
Surely the next instalment can't exceed this.
Can't see this getting to a screen, although there's always Netflix I suppose.