Campbell Armstrong

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Title: The Bad Fire: Description:
A gripping story

Title: Asterisk: Description:
Asterisk is America's fragile secret. It waits somewhere in the Arizona desert to pave the way to world domination. Two frightened, desperate men are racing to crack the wall of silence surrounding Asterisk - John Thorne, a White House aide, and Ted Hollander of the CIA.

Title: Jigsaw: Description:
One winter evening, during rush hour, a bomb explodes in a crowded train in the London underground. More than 100 people are slaughtered. In the absence of any terrorist claims come distressing questions. Who planted the device? And why? From the Back Cover On a bitter winter evening a bomb explodes in a crowded London underground train. People are senselessly slaughtered. Who planted the murderous device? And why? A few hours later in a Mayfair flat a young prostitute is brutally killed and an enigmatic message written in blood is left in her room. It is addressed to Frank Pagan, counter-terrorist specialist, and it draws him into the most terrifying case of his career. Pagan finds himself pitted against two extraordinary adversaries: the lethal Carlotta, a woman whose appetite for blood is matched only by Pagan's hunger for justice - and the ghost of Jig, his most famous antagonist, whose death has given birth to new demons... From London to New York, Berlin to Venice, Jigsaw weaves a breathtaking story of conspiracy and power, passion and betrayal - a magnificent follow-up to Campbell Armstrong's worldwide bestseller Jig. About the Author Campbell ArmstrongCampbell Armstrong was born in Glasgow and educated at Sussex University. He and his family now live in Ireland. His bestselling novels, Jig, Mazurka, Agents of Darkness, Concert of Ghosts, Jigsaw, Heat, Silencer, Blackout and Deadline have placed him in the front rank of international thriller writers.

Title: Heat: Description:
The sequel to "Jigsaw". The world of Frank Pagan, Special Branch's counter-terrorist agent, is being violated. He is being observed and recorded. Pagan is on the trail of Carlotta, a ruthless yet alluring terrorist, and his pursuit crosses the line that separates duty from sexual obsession. From the Back Cover Frank Pagan, Special Branch's counter-terrorist agent, is being observed, his every movement tracked and recorded. His flat is broken into. The only object stolen is a photograph of his dead wife, which is later returned to him grotesquely disfigured. But it is more than Pagan's home that has been invaded. His dreams, his every waking moment, are filled with hot, obsessive thoughts of a mortally alluring woman. For it is the most critical assignment of Pagan's career, as well as his fate, to bring to justice the enigmatic and ruthless terrorist Carlotta, who is wanted the world over for her hideous crimes. Indifferent to the horror and destruction she leaves in her wake, yet curiously fixated on Pagan, Carlotta sends emotional depth-charges into his life to the point where his pursuit of her crosses the line that separates duty from sexual obsession. In a deadly cat-and-mouse chase, Pagan is destined always to stay just a step behind Carlotta, until the fatal day he catches up with his nemesis. Riddled with intrigue violence and sexual tension, Heat takes the reader on a thrilling journey into the darkest reaches of a man's soul. About the Author Campbell ArmstrongCampbell Armstrong was born in Glasgow and educated at Sussex University. He and his family now live in Ireland. His bestselling novels, Jig, Mazurka, Agents of Darkness, Concert of Ghosts, Jigsaw, Heat, Silencer, Blackout and Deadline have placed him in the front rank of international thriller writers.

Title: Blackout: Description:
In a moment of panic, a detective covers up his involvement in a fatal car crash by burying the body of his female passenger, a prostitute who doesn't survive the accident. When the body is later discovered he finds himself caught up in a web of deceit as he himself is assigned to the "murder". From the Back Cover In a spectacular storm, a car skids across a flooded field and overturns. Gregory Samsa survives. His passenger doesn't. Instead of reporting the accident, in a frenzied panic Samsa drags his passenger to a lonely place and conceals her body. He has his reputation to think about, his career, his daughter. So when he does report the incident he leaves out one important detail - the death of the young hooker, Almond, who had been riding in his car. This one moment of weakness, a moral blackout, draws Samsa into a dark downward spiral of deception, fear and violence. When Almond's body is discovered by chance, the shadowy figure of Lee Boyle, small-time pimp and speed-freak, emerges from the underworld. Cunning, vicious and predatory, Boyle is on the trail of Almond's killer - it's payback time. And that trail is leading him to the very cop investigating her death.

Title: Concert Of Ghosts: Description:
Following AGENTS OF DARKNESS, an account of a man whose past conceals a dreadful secret, the memory of which has been eradicated from his mind, until a female journalist convinces him that the only way to free himself from his past is to explore it.

Title: Asterisk & Death's Head: Description:
Asterisk is America's most fragile and chilling sectret. An astonishing story of espionage, deadly turnabout and harrowing conspiracy that two men struggle to stop - and hope to survive. Death's Head tells of a deadly game of cat-and -mouse in occupied Berlin between former SS surgeon Gerhardt Schwazenbach, who must kill to protect himself, and the Jew Leonhard Grunwald, who is haunted by secrets of his own.