A Wild Justice: A Novel - Hardcover

Thomas, Craig

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ISBN 10: 0060179562 ISBN 13: 9780060179564

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1995

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At a glittering party near the Capital, ex-CIA agent John Lock celebrates his sister Beth's birthday among the rich and powerful: lobbyists, congressmen, foreign dignitaries, business magnates, and even former KGB agents. Lock will think back on those guests incessantly during the days to come, struggling to recall each and every person present because, before daybreak, they will all be under suspicion for the brutal murder of Beth and her husband, Billy Grainger.
Half a world away, a senior American executive is murdered execution-style by a single bullet to the back of his head. His corpse is found lying near the fields of an international gas consortium. A symbol? A warning?
Built up steadily since the Cold War thawed, Grainger-Turgenev was thriving under the revitalized leadership of Billy Grainger. But after the murders, control shifts to Pyotr Turgenev, Billy's enigmatic Russian partner, and the involvement is revealed of Nguyen Tran, the mysterious Vietnamese whose interest in Grainger-Turgenev is obscure and threatening.
John Lock spent years serving his country as a CIA agent. Trained in every facet of surveillance and secret combat, he was unable to protect his sister and seems now nearly powerless to pierce the web of secret menace that pervades the enterprise her husband left behind.
As the danger escalates Lock finds himself on the run, without allies, and drawn inexorably to seek the help of a Russian police inspector. Only then does he become aware of the connection between the two seemingly random crimes one snowy evening. And, inevitably, he is drawn into an international conspiracy reaching far beyond the American capital to Afghanistan and East Asia. The prime player is new, free-market Russia. And rules mean nothing to the sinister, murderous greed of capitalism at its worst.

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From the Back Cover:

FROM THE ASHES OF THE COLD WAR, A NEW AND ALL-TOO-DEADLY THREAT TO WORLD PEACE ARISES...

Novvy Urengoy, Siberia.
In one of the most hostile and lawless places in the Russian Federation, an American gas company executive is found dead, the apparent victim of a casual robbery or the local mafia. Alexei Vorontsyev, chief of detectives, finds his investigation mysteriously blocked from every side.

Washington, D.C.
The chief executive of the gas company and his wife are murdered in their opulent mansion. John Lock, State Department expert on Russia and former CIA agent, vows revenge on the killers of his beloved sister and brother-in-law.

There is no possible connection between the two crimes; they are merely two eruptions of modern lawlessness – or are they? The answer lies in Siberia, where a conspiracy of ruthless corruption, as deadly as it is sinister, poses a more serious threat to the security of the West than ever did the Soviet Union and its armies. Each man seeks justice – but what happens when the price becomes too much to pay?

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About the Author:

Craig Thomas is married and lives with his wife and two tortoiseshell cats in Staffordshire. His interests include cricket, gardening and music, especially classical music and jazz. He is also interested in philosophy and political theory (his collection of essays, ‘There to Here’, is published by Fontana Press).

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