White Death

The heart-stopping new thriller featuring FBI Special Agent Frank Patrese, on the trail of a crazed serial killer targeting Ivy League colleges.

ONE GAME
Two weeks before Kwasi King, chess’s answer to Muhammad Ali, is due to defend his world title, his mother is found brutally murdered yards from Yale University. A tarot card has been left next to her dismembered body.

TWO PLAYERS
Soon, more bodies turn up at other Ivy League colleges, all with tarot cards. But while some have been killed in a frenzy, others were dispatched with clinical precision. It looks like FBI Special Agent Franco Patrese’s looking for not just one killer, but two.

CHECK MATE
And while Patrese hunts, he knows that he too is being hunted, for he’s received his own tarot card. The Fool. Could he be the next victim of this macabre intellectual battle?

Reviews
Stunning. A ‘Chinatown’ for the 21st century’ – Charles Cumming, NY Times bestselling author of THE TRINITY SIX‘City of Sins starts with a tsunami and ends with a hurricane, and nothing in between slows it down. A smart, scary, and relentless storm overtaking a city held hostage by greed and disaster." – Andrew Gross, NYTimes bestselling author‘Hugely entertaining’ – Sean Black, author of the RYAN LOCK seriesDaniel Blake makes New Orleans the setting for a story that's as hot, steamy and shot through with voodoo madness as the city itself. Highly recommended!" – Tom Cain, author of THE ACCIDENT MAN and DICTATORCITY OF SINS is a fast-paced, blood-soaked, full-throttle descent into hell. Daniel Blake weaves an intricate plot, his dialogue rich and spot-on and his characters–both good and gut-wrenchingly evil–full-bodied and as real and fresh as morning rain. This is a journey into the darkness that must not be missed. It is a novel that quite simply demands to be read. To do otherwise would be a crime –LORENZO CARCATERRA, author of SLEEPERS and MIDNIGHT ANGELS‘Blake keeps the dialogue razor sharp and the action hammer blunt while tantalizing readers with a Sherlockian thriller that turns the modern detective story on its head. If ever there was a character ripe for transition to the big screen, Franco Patrese is it.’ – Rupert Wyatt, director of RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
About the author

Daniel Blake worked as a reporter on the Sun and the Daily Telegraph and then for Control Risk, a company which specialises in kidnap negotiation, clandestine investigations and political risk analysis. He was also one of the youngest-ever contestants on Mastermind. Daniel studied at Cambridge and currently lives in London.