A stunning new thriller in the vein of Velocity and The Husband from one of the worlds bestselling authors. After a days work hefting brick and stone, Tim Carrier slakes his thirst at The Lamplighter Tavern. Nothing heavy happens there. Its a friendly workingmans bar run by his good friend Rooney, who enjoys gathering eccentric customers. Working his deadpan humour on strangers is, for Tim, all part of the entertainment. But how could Tim have imagined that the stranger who sits down next to him one evening is about to unmake his world and enmesh him in a web of murder and deceit? The man has come there to meet someone and he thinks its Tim. Tims wayward sense of humour lets the misconception stand for a moment and thats all it takes the stranger hands Tim a fat manila envelope, saying, Half of its there the rest when shes gone, and then hes out the door. In the envelope Tim finds the photograph of a woman, her name and address written on the back and several thick packets of hundreddollar bills. When an intenselooking man sits down where the first stranger sat and glances at the manila envelope, Tim knows hes the one who was supposed to get it. Shaken, thinking fast, Tim says hes had a change of heart. He removes the picture of the woman and then hands the envelope to the stranger. Half what we agreed, he says. For doing nothing. Call it a nokill fee. Tim is left holding a photo of a pretty woman, but his sense of fun has led him into a very dangerous world from which...

Binding: Paperback;466 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 529.59 g; Dimensions: N/A

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