Matthew Palmer’s perfect world is about to be shot to pieces – literally!
The 30-something, free and single entrepreneur has sold up in the UK, purchased a 40-foot motor cruiser and followed a long held dream to run his own diving charter service in the land of Aphrodite. The days are filled with the hot Cyprus sun and warm sea. The nights with….. Well, life just doesn’t get any better.
A chance meeting with the beautiful and elusive Katherina piques Palmer’s curiosity and has him following her two miles out to sea in the dead of night and diving one hundred and fifty feet down into one of the world’s most dangerous wrecks. Barely surviving an attack by barracuda and then having to rescue the trapped girl from the depths of the dead leviathan, Palmer draws on every ounce of his skill and reserve, plunging himself headlong into a bloody conspiracy of extortion, kidnapping and murder.
Bereft of everything but his life and deported as a murder suspect, Palmer returns to the UK to track down the source of his humiliation.
Under his tanned and easygoing exterior Matthew Palmer's need for revenge festers like an unexploded grenade and at 30,000 feet over the French Alps on the night flight home a would-be assassin pulls the pin...
"Mike Lawrence's premiere novel moves along at a cracking breakneck pace, a real exciting page-turner that puts recent James Bond novels to shame."
Graham Rye - Editor & Publisher, 007 MAGAZINE.
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