Deadly Game
The stunning thriller from the screen legend Michael Caine
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4.0 • 14 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
*** An explosive international thriller from the Hollywood legend and British icon Sir Michael Caine***
DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations - but he's great at catching criminals.
And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid.
With security agencies across the world on red alert, it's Harry and his unconventional team from the Met who must hit the streets in search of a lead. They soon have two wildly different suspects, aristocratic art dealer Julian Smythe in London and oligarch Vladimir Voldrev in Barbados. But the pressure is on. How much time does Harry have, and how many more players will join the action, before the missing uranium is lighting up the sky?
Deadly Game is a compelling, fast-paced novel of international intrigue and twisting suspense from a legendary actor and British icon, who now proves himself to be a first-rate thriller writer.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Academy Award winner Caine adds to his résumé with this suspenseful debut. When a metal box containing weapons-grade uranium is discovered at a dump in Stepney, England, the race is on among various London gangs to get their hands on it. Afraid of the havoc a briefcase-size nuke could wreak, New Scotland Yard assigns Harry Taylor, a 45-year-old, Kipling-quoting old-school DCI, to retrieve the material. Alongside right-hand man John Williams, sniper Iris Davies, and nuclear expert Carol Walker, Harry follows a trail of clues that takes his team from the posh Eaton Square digs of a Sondheim-loving drug lord to the Versailles-like lair of a Russian oligarch in Barbados. Along the way, Caine orchestrates plenty of shoot-outs, ambushes, and pulse-quickening standoffs. He doesn't reinvent the wheel, but he brings to the proceedings a Len Deightonesque delight in depicting interservice squabbling, an Ian Fleming–like appreciation for outsized villains, a fascination with atomic age minutiae, and tough-guy dialogue that absolutely crackles. This is the kind of well-oiled thriller that Caine made his name starring in.
