Acts of Violence (Inspector Carlyle) - Softcover

Craig, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472115120 ISBN 13: 9781472115126

Publisher: Constable, 2016

Synopsis

Awakening the sleeping dragon...

Smooth expat Michael Nicholson is a fixer, getting on by doing favours for the rich and powerful in booming China. When he makes the mistake of getting too close to one of his clients, the wife of a leading Communist Party official, the ageing Lothario fears for his life as a vengeful husband decides to put his house in order.

So when a domestic dispute from the other side of the world leads to a shoot-out in a luxury penthouse apartment in Chelsea, an ex-cop called Marvin Taylor is one of the casualties. Inspector John Carlyle is little more than a casual onlooker until Taylor's widow turns up, looking for answers. The inspector is drawn into the morass of dealing and double-dealing, much to the dismay of his boss, Carole Simpson, who wants him to focus on Barbara Hutton, a Bloomsbury housewife who may - or may not - be a former German terrorist wanted for a forty-year-old murder...

'A cracking read' BBC Radio 4

'Fast paced and very easy to get quickly lost in' Lovereading.com

About this title

Review:

'A cracking read.' (BBC Radio 4)

'Fast paced and very easy to get quickly lost.' (Lovereading)

Book Description:

An Inspector John Carlyle novel, set in central London

About this edition

• Publisher: Constable
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1472115120
• ISBN 13: 9781472115126
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320