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Thea Paris battles an enemy from her past for control of a genetically targeted bioweapon.

Skyjack

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International kidnap expert Thea Paris is escorting two former child soldiers on a plane from an orphanage in Kanzi, Africa, to adoptive parents in London when the Boeing Business Jet is hijacked and forced to land on a deserted airstrip in the Libyan desert.

On the ground, Thea comes face-to-face with a former nemesis, a Sicilian don who wants something, or someone, on that plane. Her old foe imprisons her in the hangar and takes to the air with the boys and the passengers still aboard, mysteriously demanding that Thea use the resources of Quantum International to hijack a truckload of Syrian refugees bound for Budapest. He makes it clear he will return the passengers only when the truck and its contents are in his possession.

Thea, Rif, and the Quantum team must race against the clock to discover the don's true motives before any harm comes to the two boys and their fellow passengers. Revealing a deadly conspiracy that connects the dark postwar legacy of World War II to the present, this case will bring all parties to an explosive conclusion that will decide the fate of millions across Europe and the Middle East.

Author

K.J. Howe

K.J. Howe is the executive director of ThrillerFest, the annual conference of International Thriller Writers. A three-time Daphne du Maurier Award winner, she completed her MA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. She is an avid traveler who has raced camels in Jordan, surfed in Hawaii, and dove with the great whites in South Africa. She became fascinated by the kidnap and ransom (K&R) world after meeting Peter Moore, a British computer consultant who became the longest-held hostage in Iraq and the only person to survive of the five men who were taken that day. She is the author of The Freedom Broker.

Book Details

Publisher Quercus
Genre Mysteries & Thrillers
Publication Date Apr 10 2018
ISBN 9781681443010

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izzy
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Nov 19 2019 – 09:20 AM

Amazing

I absolutely loved this book. The plot and the whole story was so interesting. There was never a...

krittie28
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Sep 25 2019 – 06:38 PM

Love it!

International kidnap expert Thea Paris is escorting two former child soldiers on a plane from an...

julie daniels
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Aug 08 2019 – 01:41 AM

A fast-paced, action-packed Thriller!

Actual rating: 4.5 stars. ...

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