- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New edition edition (12 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0751531421
- ISBN-13: 978-0751531428
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,164,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Shadow Chasers
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
The ship Maria Vasquez is intercepted in the Bay of Naples and her cargo of contraband cigarettes seized. Through his involvement in this dramatic operation, UK Customs and Excise man Rob Sullivan is drawn into an investigation that will endanger not only his life but the lives of those closest to him.
On secondment to the EU anti-fraud squad in Brussels, Sullivan's absence from the family home in England has put serious strain on his marriage and made the chemistry between him and his enticing Dutch counterpart, Claire Colmar, all the more difficult to deal with.
Romantic involvement aside, Colmar and Sullivan are a formidable and tenacious team. Their mission, they realise, is to successfully identify and bring to book the criminal minds at the head of the powerful smuggling cartel. The difficulty is that these are powerful men with a veneer of legitimacy and friends in all the right places: "rich men in suits who mix with politicians and bankers, sophisticated businessmen who go to black-tie dinners at international finance conferences, who can borrow millions at the shake of a hand".
The pair's grim determination to prove that no one is "too big to get caught" leads to some chilling confrontations with highly trained assassins. Tension builds to breaking point in these gripping scenes and shows Paul Adams at his descriptive best. His pulse quickening denouement is crying out for translation to the big screen. Shadow Chasers is a fast-paced, well-crafted thriller. The EU has never seemed so exciting. --Sarah Crawford --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
Alone in dreary Brussels, British customs officer Rob Sullivan finds much of his work boring or frustrating. But then he and his colleagues, including the intriguing Claire, link two cigarette smuggling operations. But each witness who can link them to the real mastermind behind the scheme suddenly meets with an 'accident'. Increasingly desperate, Rob begins to take short cuts with terrifying consequences. An exciting, undoubtedly authentic, topical thriller.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:Paperback
A taunt, well written, well told tale that takes you on a throughly believeable trip through the world of smuggling using a subject matter that this reader would never have thought capable of being turned into such an excellent and gripping story.
Format:Paperback
If the saying, don't judge a book by its cover was ever true, this is it! I bought it on a whim online without paying much attention to the cover but when it arrived I put it quickly on the shelf and forgot about it for 6 month. That was a mistake as it turned out to be a thrilling book into EU wide cigarette smuggling, murder and action!
A very well writen book dwelling into the subject of criminals laundering money, smuggling cigarettes and killing each other and anyone that comes in their way at the same time. The book follows a few EU Commission fraud investigators in their battle to catch the crooks behind the money, funding these crimes.
Paul Adam tells the story in a faced paced book that captures the reader and draws you in.
A very well writen book dwelling into the subject of criminals laundering money, smuggling cigarettes and killing each other and anyone that comes in their way at the same time. The book follows a few EU Commission fraud investigators in their battle to catch the crooks behind the money, funding these crimes.
Paul Adam tells the story in a faced paced book that captures the reader and draws you in.
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
