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Perry mason terrified typist3/6/2023 ![]() “One of the best thrillers I have read this year.” With a conspiracy around him, adversaries as smart as he is, and an assassin on his tail, the wild game of cat and mouse leads Kent on a perilous road-one that may lead back to Langley-and to a shocking discovery of his own identity.ĪGENT ZERO is an espionage thriller that will keep you turning pages late into the night. They are convinced that Kent is the most lethal spy the CIA has ever known. All that changes when late one night he gets a knock on his door and is abducted by three terrorists-and finds himself flown across the ocean to be interrogated in a basement in Paris. Kent Steele, 38, a brilliant professor of European History at Columbia University, lives a quiet life in a New York suburb with his two teenage daughters. In this much-anticipated debut of an epic spy thriller series by #1 bestseller Jack Mars, readers are taken on an action thriller across Europe as presumed-CIA operative Kent Steele, hunted by terrorists, by the CIA, and by his own identity, must solve the mystery of who is after him, of the terrorists’ pending target-and of the beautiful woman he keeps seeing in his mind. The description of the action scenes transport us into a reality that is almost like sitting in a movie theater with surround sound and 3D (it would make an incredible Hollywood movie). The author did a superb job creating a set of characters who are fully developed and very much enjoyable. “You will not sleep until you are finished with AGENT ZERO. As the two close in on the mystery, will they be able to identify a pattern-or is their luck about to run out? Show bookĪgent Zero (An Agent Zero Spy. Meanwhile, more dice keep turning up-though the crimes connected to them seem utterly random, ranging from the serious to the bizarre. After Liz is attacked on the job, Liam visits her in hospital and they discover another odd connection: both Liam and the police are looking into teachers who’ve been victimised. Two murders, in fact-one recent, the other involving a skeletonized body, but both linked by pictures of dice at the scenes. Liam Bennet has just quit the force to become a private detective-and to his frustration, his first case is a weird petty crime while his good friend acting DCI Liz Miller is assigned a murder. “What a fantastic book! I was gripped from the start and read late into the night.” -Goodreads reviewer, five starsA series of bizarre crimes across the English city of Sheffield brings a police detective and a PI together in an increasingly dangerous game . . . And his good friend Father Brennan Burke has some surprising contacts for Shay in the shadowy world of New York’s Irish mob. Determined to clear his family name, his under-the-radar investigation takes him from an opulent mansion in Dublin to Hell’s Kitchen in New York. Shay works with the lead detective on the murder inquiry and his star is rising, until suspicion falls on a member of Shay’s own family. But the violent death of a prominent politician gives Shay the opportunity to prove himself, perhaps even be promoted. ![]() Shay knows Detective McCreevy is just waiting for the chance to get revenge. The murder inquiry makes an enemy of the detective who failed in the first investigation. When his friend Rosaleen is killed and the case goes unsolved, Shay decides to put on the uniform of a Dublin garda and sets out to find the killer. But in the early 1970s, young fellows from the tenements of Dublin have not been welcomed in the police force. He has always toyed with the idea of joining the Garda Síochána, the Irish police. Shay Rynne grew up in the Corporation Flats - public housing - in Fenian Street, Dublin. “Millions of Americans never seem to tire of Gardner’s thrillers.” -The New York Times DON’T MISS THE NEW HBO ORIGINAL SERIES PERRY MASON, BASED ON CHARACTERS FROM ERLE STANLEY GARDNER’S NOVELS, STARRING EMMY AWARD WINNER MATTHEW RHYSĪn unsolved murder investigation in 1970s Ireland from “one of Canada’s finest novelists.” - Ottawa Review of Books This mystery is part of Edgar Award–winning author Erle Stanley Gardner’s classic, long-running Perry Mason series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO show starring Matthew Rhys and Tatiana Maslany. But if Mason’s going to untangle this case, finding the typist is key . . . When she disappears, leaving a couple of diamonds behind in her haste, Mason winds up taking on a new client: a gem importer in his office building who’s been charged with smuggling and murder. Defense lawyer Perry Mason needs a temporary typist, but the one he hires turns out to be more temporary than expected. Summary The Edgar Award–winning author’s tale of a missing woman and a crime ring, featuring the lawyer and detective who inspired the HBO limited series. READ The Case of the Terrified Typist Erle Stanley Gardner
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