coolreads# Private Rogue

Private Rogue

Authors: James Patterson & Adam Hamdy

Publisher: Century

ISBN: 9781529125887

Jack Morgan is the head of Private, the world’s largest investigation agency. When a wealthy businessman approaches him with a desperate plea to find his daughter and grandchildren who have all disappeared without a trace, Jack is coerced into accepting the assignment by his co-worker and lover, Justine.

coolreads# Fast Track

Fast Track

Author: Stephen Leather

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN: 9781473672048

Fast Track begins with the jihadists crossing the English Channel, passing themselves off as asylum seekers. And due to the slack checking at the borders, many managed to get through into Britain. MI5 have been keeping some of them under surveillance. In fact, the agency has even recruited one jihadist agent called Abdul Abbas placed under M16 handler Mo Uthman, also an Asian. Abbas is planted into the jihadists’ cell in London to get information on the terrorists who are planning an attack in the city.

coolreads# City of Ice

City of Ice

Author: Brian Klingborg

Publisher: Headline

ISBN: 9781472281869

In the Raven Valley township of northern China – where the theft of a few chickens counts as a major crime – a young woman is found brutally murdered with her heart, lungs and liver removed.

coolreads# Rogue Asset

Rogue Asset

Author: Andy McDermott

Publisher: Headline

ISBN: 9781472263841

As a former special ops soldier as well as operative of the secretive SC9 - an elite security service of the British government given the remit to neutralise the country’s enemies - Alex Reeve now finds himself with the Fox Red label. It is the SC9 code for an internal threat, given to a rogue asset.

coolreads# Our Friends in Beijing

Our Friends in Beijing

Author: John Simpson

Publisher: John Murray

ISBN: 9781473674547

Jon Swift, the British TV broadcaster finds himself in trouble when his journalism career is not going the way he wants. Jon realises that he is too old to be part of the new world order and despite his predicament, he refuses to suck up to his superiors. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts. So this time, after being given his termination letter, Jon decides to visit China with his TV producer, Alyssa Roberts for a final hurrah and also to report on the new developments taking place there. That’s when his adventure in Beijing takes on a new challenge for him.

coolreads# Red Wolves

Red Wolves

Author: Adam Hamdy

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

ISBN: 9781509899241

The book kicks off with a daring escape from a Cairo prison where Elmore Lang rescues Ziad Malek, an American born to Egyptian immigrant parents. The crime scene is crude and dangerous, and it leaves behind many dead bodies. However, the victims - the guards and other prisoners - who are collateral damage during the escape, do not have any evidence of what killed them.

coolreads# Robert Ludlum’s The Treadstone Exile

Robert Ludlum’s

The Treadstone Exile

Author: Joshua Hood

Publisher: Head of Zeus

ISBN: 9781800241107

Former Treadstone Operative Adam Hayes finds himself at the centre of a web of warring factions and high-level secrets in the second novel in the Treadstone series, the newest addition to the Robert Ludlum collection.

coolreads# The Shadow

The Shadow

Authors: James Patterson & Brian Sitts

Publisher: Arrow Books

ISBN: 9781787467736

James Patterson’s latest novel, The Shadow, written in collaboration with Brian Sitts, is a dystopian science-fiction with elements of both the Marvel and DC comics universes.  The book opens in a diner set in 1937, featuring Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane. The aloof Lamont is about to ask Margo to marry him. And Margo has a bigger surprise - her implied secret pregnancy. Unfortunately, before they can reveal the secrets to each other, the pair are being poisoned. Lamont manages to drive them across town to a secret warehouse/laboratory he owned.