Raymond Benson
A New James Bond Novel The Man with the Red Tattoo
Pbk published June 2003 by Coronet at £6.99
ISBN: 0340819154The explosive new James Bond thriller is set in Japan, where Bond must stop a fanatic terrorist from unleashing a deadly virus that could destroy the human race.
When a British businessman and his family are killed in Japan, James Bond suspects a mass assassination. Investigating with the help of beautiful Japanese agent Reiko Tamura and his old friend Tiger Tanaka, Bond discovers that two powerful factions controlled by the mysterious terrorist Goro Yoshida are playing God. Between them they have created the perfect weapon, one small and seemingly insignificant enough to strike anywhere, unnoticed. With an emergency G7 summit meeting just days away, it's a race against time as Bond confronts both man and nature in a desperate bid to stop the release of a deadly virus that could destroy the Western world.
Jeffery Deaver
The Stone Monkey
Pbk published April 2003 by Coronet at £6.99
ISBN: 0340734019 Artwork by: Cover illustration: © Sonar
Lincoln Rhyme is back - in a case that involves the terrifying world ot Chinese organised crime.
Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying illegal Chinese immigrants and the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when things go disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost before he can find and murder the two surviving families who have vanished into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community.
Full of Deaver's trademarks - heart-stopping deadlines, unexpected plot twists, breakneck pacing and real characters - this new thriller confirms Deaver as 'the best psychological thriller writer around' - The Times.
Jeffery Deaver lives in Washington, DC. His last novel, The Blue Nowhere, spent six weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list.
Greg Iles
Sleep No More
Pbk published June 2003 by Coronet at £6.99
ISBN: 0340822716
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Ian Morson
Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger
John Waters is a successful petroleum geologist with the perfect family. Then one day his world is turned inside out by a single word spoken from the lips of the stunning Eve Sumner. One solitary word that takes him back a decade to another woman and the most passionate of affairs.
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Kyle Mills
Rising Phoenix
Pbk published May 2003 by Coronet at £6.99
ISBN: 0340734221