SIS officer Luke Carlton returns in the explosive, action-packed and bestselling new thriller from BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner, author of the No.1 bestseller Crisis.
Born in 1961, Frank Gardner has been the BBC's Security Correspondent since 2002. He holds a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies. In 2004, while filming in Saudi Arabia, he was ambushed by terrorists, shot multiple times and left for dead. He survived and returned to active news reporting within a year. He still travels extensively. Awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to journalism, Frank published his bestselling memoir, Blood and Sand, in 2006. His first novel, the thriller Crisis, which introduced readers to SIS operative Luke Carlton, was a No.1 bestseller. The second Luke Carlton thriller, Ultimatum, was also a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, as was the third, Outbreak. Frank Gardner lives in London.
Confirms Frank Gardner’s place among the pantheon of distinguished
reporters who have become excellent thriller writers, including
Gerald Seymour and Frederick Forsyth . . . utterly authentic . . .
it grips like a python from the first page, squeezing the breath
out of the reader.
*DAILY MAIL*
Outstanding.
*SUNDAY TIMES*
Frank Gardner’s second thriller is even closer than his first,
Crisis, to dealing with the world’s most immediate fears . . .
current international events do not necessarily turn into exciting
novels, but Gardner skilfully mixes knowledge garnered as the BBC’s
security correspondent with breathless action.
*THE TIMES*
Lots of twists and turns and a surprise ending. Good stuff.
*DAILY MAIL*
Crisis, the debut two years ago by the BBC security correspondent
Frank Gardner, was much admired, and the second in his Luke Carlton
series is even better . . . its themes of Iranian bomb production
and divisions in the country’s elite have great topicality.
*SUNDAY TIMES 'Thriller of the Month'*
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