Review
An old friend asks Intelligence Officer Jack Valentine to wean away his teenage daughter from New York drug baron Riccardo Xaberra. Jack and his old ally Liam track down Xaberra to Mexico - but Xaberra has kidnapped Jack's lover and Liam's sister.An assured, shamelessly exciting page-turner.
Product Description
Intelligence officer Jack Valentine sets out on another dangerous mission - to rescue a friend's daughter and the woman he loves from an evil drug baron. He teams up in New York with his old ally Liam Mellows and they end up in Mexico, where the Day of the Dead is being celebrated.
From the Back Cover
A man with a complicated history, Jack Valentine gets the jobs even MI5 daren't touch . . .
Jack Valentine thinks he's finished with the covert life but the covert life isn't finished with him. The assignment seems straightforward. An old friend's daughter, Alva Casagrande, has been sucked into
what looks like a minor league Manhattan heroin vortex and Jack is persuaded to go there to pull her out. Simple enough, until the old friend is fighting for his life courtesy of a pound of semtex in the wheelarch
of his car. Two days later Jack is in New York calling on old friendships and provoking ancient hatreds.
He realises that the little girl's Mexican partner is as wealthy and hard-wired as they come and that his
friend's little girl carries a punch herself. The agenda is drugs on a large scale, and Jack is fixed for a
descent into hell.
Jack Valentine thinks he's finished with the covert life but the covert life isn't finished with him. The assignment seems straightforward. An old friend's daughter, Alva Casagrande, has been sucked into
what looks like a minor league Manhattan heroin vortex and Jack is persuaded to go there to pull her out. Simple enough, until the old friend is fighting for his life courtesy of a pound of semtex in the wheelarch
of his car. Two days later Jack is in New York calling on old friendships and provoking ancient hatreds.
He realises that the little girl's Mexican partner is as wealthy and hard-wired as they come and that his
friend's little girl carries a punch herself. The agenda is drugs on a large scale, and Jack is fixed for a
descent into hell.
About the Author
John Creed is the author of 'The Sirius Crossing', his first Jack Valentine thriller, which the Daily Mirror called a 'taut, brilliantly written debut . . . gripping'. Creed was born in Northern Ireland and now lives in Co. Sligo with his wife and two children.
