Meeting your double means certain death.
Is this bizarre warning the catalyst for a series of unsettling' events that could push James Bond close to the edge of.. madness?
His last assignment, fighting the Union, an international crime organisation, in the Himalayas, has left 007 feeling physically as well as mentally exhausted. But the medical leave M has sent him on does not help him to feel better. He is bored to death.
Furthermore he desperately wants to track down the Union members who murdered his personal assistant Helena. They want Bond as much as he wants them. The Union's mysterious leader has vowed revenge on the man who thwarted his last coup.
He sends out a doppelgdnger to destroy Bond's reputation and sanity.
Another Union agent, Margareta Piel, beautiful yet a vicious homicidal maniac is also set on Bond. Her mission is to lure him into a dangerous alliance of deceit and treason with a Spanish militant intent on reclaiming Gibraltar.
Ignoring M's orders Bond hunts the members of the Union's inner circle. His search takes him from the seedy underbelly of London's Soho to the souks of Tangier and from a terrorist training camp in Morocco to a bullring in Spain.
Each step brings him closer to the truth about the Unions' elaborate, audacious plot to destroy both SIS and its best agent: James Bond.

Heralded as an author with great promise, John Connolly burst onto the international literary scene in 1999 with the publication of Every Dead Thing. In this country the book went straight onto the Sunday Times bestseller list in both hardcover and paperback. In Ireland the book was also a bestseller and the American's, who bought it for $I million, published to massive critical acclaim.
The question always asked is can an author produce a second novel to match the first?
John Connolly answers that question in the affirmative with Dark Hollow. Connolly has refined his already apparent skills, concentrated his plot line, developed his leading characters and created a villain whose menace is well equal to the awesome Travelling Man in Everydead Thing.
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'There are themes that run through Dark Hollow - the fear of dark things living in the forest, the lost son, the quest - which all come from a completely different, fairy-tale tradition. I wanted to give the whole book a very sinister feel, rather than just a gruesome one.
'There are also lots of images of predatory nature and the cycles of the seasons: I wanted all of those things to tie in together and reflect back on the main plots of the book.' John Connolly in The Bookseller

When the multi-billion-pound takeover of Provident Bank is announced, star equities dealer Greg Schneider has reason to celebrate. He's just bought a million soaring Provident shares and others wonder how he does it. An LSE investigator begins his work. A leading research analyst speaks her mind to the media. A finance director celebrates with a visit to a discreet Docklands townhouse. A lucrative yet bizarre lifestyle is suddenly in jeopardy.
Six days later, a Detective Inspector finds a bloated body in the River Thames and, unaware of the ultimate consequences, explores a complex web of interconnected lives in his search for a ruthless killer.

On 31st October, flight ACL248 en route from Los Angeles International to Mexico City disappeared off Mexico Approach Radar at 00.27hrs. Wreckage' of the plane was found on high terrain in the Sierra Madre mountain range at a point 780 miles north west of Mexico City.
There were 148 fatalities, 0 survivors
Now Ron Carter - young air-accident investigator or "Tin Kicker" - and Nancy Kronziac of the FBI Counter Intelligence Group have taken on the job of trying to make some sense from the fall-out. And when the smallest clue has the largest ramifications, it becomes a job that starts to look increasingly hazardous to their own health...

This riveting psychological thriller lays out a powerful story of conspiracy, murder on a grand scale and corruption at the highest level, and takes the reader from the sweating jungles of Mexico to the hallowed halls of Washington DC itself.