Présentation de l'éditeur
Undercover cop Grace Flint is cool, quick-thinking and fearless under pressure. Until an operation to trap international money-launderer Frank Harling goes wrong - and Grace is almost beaten to death. After reconstructive surgery, Grace is physically restored to an icy beauty. But inside, her superiors fear that she has been irreversibly damaged. So when she insists on returning to duty, there are those who are certain she's going to crack. And when her new target reveals a link to Frank Harling, Grace refuses to back off. Determined to track down the man who almost destroyed her, Grace is on a collision course with her worst nightmare...
Revue de presse
Not since Modesty Blaise has spy literature seen a heroine as determined and spunky as Flint (
Time)
the Times `opens with breakneck momentum' 22/9 (
The Times)
Sunday Times `a fast-moving, highly readable thriller' 30/9
A welcome debut with a heroine volcanic enough for a series (
Kirkus Rreviews)
'A compulsive, edge-of-the-chair, nail-biting, fast-paced, crisply written narrative. No wonder the movie rights have already sold... brilliant opening-round flourish' LA Times
Slick, ultra-violent thriller (
Literary Review)
Eddy never underestimates the reader... The attention to detail is intense and the writing's stylish with many unexpected moments (
Mirror)
`An impressive acomplishment for a first novel... Eddy knows how to write page-turning, tense prose and whips through big setpiece scenes with gusto' Observer
`... an impressively slick and contemporary piece of work that maintains a breathless pace from start to finish' Mail on Sunday
`Breathtaking' (
Independent on Sunday)
This is an absolutely cracking literary debut reminiscent of Patricia Cornwell at her best...FLINT has a riveting plot, is racily told, and has superb characterisation (
Arena)
`... high-speed entertainment' Sunday Telegraph
'An energetic, fast-moving novel, with enough violence and sudden death to satisfy the most jaded of palates...very le Carre-like...' Evening Standard
`What gives the novel its originality is its combination of the police manhunt and the spy thriller and the skill with which the two are interwoven... FLINT is full of passages that won't easily be forgotten' (
The Sunday Times)
'This is an absolutely cracking literary debut reminiscent of Patricia Cornwell at her best...FLINT has a riveting plot, is racily told, and has superb characterisation' Arena
`What gives the novel its originality is its combination of the police manhunt and the spy thriller and the skill with which the two are interwoven... Eddy's forte is the the taut description of danger... FLINT is full of passages that won't easily be forgotten' Sunday Tmes
`it's breathtaking at times. The writing and plotting are as tightly bound as the bandages that covered Grace's face' Independent On Sunday
'Eddy never underestimates the reader... The attention to detail is intense and the writing's stylish with many unexpected moments' Mirror
'Slick, ultra-violent thriller' Literary Review
'A gripping, complex and highly plausible thriller... The novel crashes open like a cluster bomb...an engaging and thoroughly sympathetic heroine... Eddy keeps his story fast and seamless, expertly ratcheting up the tension in a breathlessly complex web of intrigue that keeps the reader guessing about loyalties and betrayals right to the end' Publishers Weekly
'A welcome debut, with a heroine volcanic enough for a series' Kirkus Reviews
'Not since Modesty Blaise has spy literature seen a heroine as determined and spunky as Flint...looks as though she may have some pretty good commercial legs' Time
'Fast-paced, taut and authentically researched' Frederick Forsyth
And a thoroughly modern thriller this is. There are sophisticated technological tools and exotic locales, without the James Bondian touches that often push the genre to ridiculous excesses. "Flint" relies upon the strength of its steel
