Masterful . . . superior entertainment that makes most other novels of suspense appear dull and slowwitted by comparison Publishers WeeklyWhat should have been a simple pickup turns into a daylong nightmare for Bad Sam Chapman.When an operational catastrophe puts a gun in the hands of a young man, who then breaks into South Oxford Nursery School and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy fears the worst. But Jaime Segura isnt there on a homicidal mission, and hes just as scared as those whose lives he holds as collateral. As an armed police presence builds outside the schools gates, Bad Sam Chapman head of the intelligence services internal security force, the Dogs battles the clock to find out what Jaime is after. But the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler, an MI6 accountant who worked with Jaimes lover, Miro. Miros gone missing, along with a quarter of a billion pounds allotted for reconstruction work in Iraq. Jaime refuses to believe that Miro is a thief though hes always had his secrets. But then, so does Louise, so do the other hostages and so do some people on the outside, whod much rather Jaime was silenced.

Binding: Paperback;293 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FF; Weight: 414 g; Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 24

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