{"product_id":"a-silent-death-9781784295028","title":"A Silent Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe scorching new thriller from worldwide bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blackhouse, Coffin Road \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e I'll Keep You Safe.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpain, 2020\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA SILENT VOW\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen ex-pat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge and destroy the policewoman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA SILENT LIFE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCristina's aunt Ana has been deaf and blind for the entirety of her adult life: the victim of a rare condition named Usher Syndrome. Ana is the center of Cristina's world--and of Cleland's cruel plan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA SILENT DEATH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Mackenzie--an ingenious yet irascible Glaswegian investigator--is assigned to aid the Spanish authorities in their manhunt. He alone can silence Cleland before the fugitive has the last, bloody, word. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter May's latest bestseller unites a strong, independent Spaniard with a socially inept Scotsman; a senseless vendetta with a sense-deprived victim, and a red-hot Costa Del Sol with an ice-cold killer. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BCC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe has won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Blackhouse\u003c\/i\u003e, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Quercus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50441262268690,"sku":"9781784295028","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b1d38f71-e2c8-4cb0-81db-76445d636855.jpg?v=1729664707","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-silent-death-9781784295028","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}