Black Bear: Peter Cotton Thriller 4: The fourth fast-paced spy thriller - Softcover

Monroe, Aly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848544871 ISBN 13: 9781848544871

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

From the author of ICELIGHT, winner of the 2012 Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, BLACK BEAR is the fourth in the critically acclaimed Peter Cotton series following the fortunes of British spy Peter Cotton as he navigates the treacherous uncertainties of the post-war world. For all fans of John le Carre, Robert Harris, Eric Ambler and Graham Greene.

'Confirms Aly Monroe's genius for creating tension...' Daily Telegraph

Sent to Manhattan as part of the British effort to build intelligence into the new United Nations Organisation 'from the foundations up', Agent Peter Cotton wakes up in the Ogden Clinic on East 76th Street, a private facility reserved for very special patients and veterans.

He is told he was found badly bruised, slumped in a doorway, and that he had been injected with at least three 'truth-drugs'. He is lucky to be alive.

Plagued by vertigo, colour blindness and tunnel vision, and unable to be certain what is real and what hallucinatory, Cotton must piece together what has happened to him, find out who is responsible and why. What he discovers is even more unsettling. His biggest uncertainty? Why he has been allowed to live.

About this title

Review:

'Confirms Aly Monroe's genius for creating such tension that, while nothing much happens, you don't want things to stop not happening. She's commercial writing's rarest beast - a gloriously defiant individualist' (Daily Telegraph)

'Monroe is terrific at evoking this world' (Guardian)

'Monroe creates the atmosphere of the time brilliantly . . . an original novel and its people and places are so well described that I was gripped from start to finish' (Literary Review)

'A wonderfully atmospheric book' (Euro Crime)

'Once again, Monroe's research is spot on and she paints her supporting cast with so many shades of grey that it makes a John Le Carré novel look positively straightforward. This is wonderfully atmospheric' (Shots Magazine)

'Dodgy underhand dealings, political manipulations as well as a labyrinth of twists and turns... Definitely an author to watch' (Falcata Times)

'Riveting stuff' (The Times)

'The stately pace and avuncular tone belie Monroe's capacity to generate tension and momentum from the most innocuous of incidents, and the political context deliberately foreshadows more famous incidents in the cold-war years ahead, as former allies - Britain, Russia and the US - jockey for position in the post-war years' (Irish Times)

'The Peter Cotton series is getting better and better and in Icelight the internecine squabbling of the security services is a prequel to the real-life problems during the Cold Ware. I'm really looking forward to the next book' (Crime Scraps)

'The Peter Cotton series by Aly Monroe is proving to be absolutely unmissable' (Good Book Guide)

Book Description:

The fourth book in the critically acclaimed Peter Cotton series

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1848544871
• ISBN 13: 9781848544871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480