A Child's Game

Description

In the early hours of the morning in a luxury Leeds penthouse, a terrified victim is doused with petrol, set alight, and thrown out of a ninth-floor window. The victim is a wealthy property developer - but his lover and her daughter have both gone missing. Meanwhile, security services are looking for DC Karen Sharpe who walked out eighteen months ago. But they are not the only ones desperate to find her. She is being pursued by some of the most dangerous people she has ever encountered - and to them, human life means nothing at all . . .

John Connor left his job as a barrister to write full time. During the fifteen years of his legal career he prosecuted numerous homicide cases in West Yorkshire and London. He advised the police in numerous proactive drugs and organised crime operations, many involving covert activity. He now lives in Brussels with his wife and two children.

John Connor drives his complex tale of secrecy and betrayal along at a cracking pace. Not for the faint-hearted, but highly recommended - Irish Independent He's created a beguilingly complex character, perfectly suited to his taut thrillers - Mirror This is a first-rate thriller with a terrific climax - Sunday Telegraph A gripping and unusual police procedural - Sunday Telegraph It'll be the rare reader able to put A CHILD'S GAME down after a chapter or so - the police procedural novel is given the kind of spruce up it has been in need of for some time - Daily Express