The new cold war is heating up
London lawyer, Jack West has a great job, is married with a beautiful daughter; but his personal life isn’t great, and it’s about to get a whole lot worse
Mysterious Encounter…
When Jack meets a beautiful and seductive stranger, Amber, in his local bar over lunch he resists temptation, that is until two sinister-looking men enter the bar and she insists he walk her home. Jack accompanies Amber back to her apartment, but one thing soon leads to another and he finds himself slipping out of control. A sudden pounding on the apartment door brings him back to his senses. Amber goes to answer the door, but five seconds later she has been shot and is dying in Jacks’s arms, assassinated by the men from the bar, who are now trying to enter her apartment. Amber’s last words to Jack are; Run Take my bag and run!
A chase across London…
With only seconds to think, Jack grabs Ambers’s bag and flees for the fire escape, dodging a hail of bullets in the process. He runs for his life as he is chased across London by the crazed assassins, but who are they and what do they want? With only the contents of Ambers’s handbag in his possession, Jack sets about trying to piece together the puzzle, but what he discovers only adds to the mystery. Whilst trying to keep the entire incident secret from his wife, he calls a contact from Ambers’s diary, her Moroccan friend Laila, and arranges to meet her. It soon becomes evident that the men hunting Jack are Russian assassins. But what are they really after? And can Jack solve the unfolding mystery before his family find out and he’s implicated in Ambers’s murder?
A Russian Conspiracy…?
As things go from bad to worse for Jack and Laila, the only clue they have leads them over to Casablanca, Morocco, but what they discover there only deepens the conspiracy surrounding Ambers’s death and her connection with the Russian assassins. With the Russian President flying over to the UK for a prisoner swap, and an international crisis brewing, Jack and Laila return to the UK to try and solve the mystery but find themselves in a race against time to prevent total global disaster.
RED MIST is a gripping, unputdownable, edge-of-your-seat, thriller with terrorism elements that will keep you turning the pages until the very end. If you enjoy espionage and spy thrillers and the action and adventure of a Mark Dawson, John Milton thriller, James Bond, or Robert Ludlum’s, Jason Bourne then you will love this fast-paced mystery thriller. $0.99 on Kindle.
