The Stranger - Jude Lyon (Paperback)
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The Stranger - Jude Lyon (Paperback)

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Published: 21/01/2021
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Waterstones Says

A pulsating thriller from the award-winning author of A Loyal Spy, The Stranger thrusts the reader deep into a world of international espionage, dark diplomacy, terrorism, and evil at its most ingenious.

The new novel from the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award-winning author of A Loyal Spy

ISIS can't control him.

MI6 can't find him.

But he's coming...

Things change quickly in the world of espionage and clandestine operations. Jude Lyon of MI6 remembers the captured terrorist bomb-maker. He watched him being flown off to Syria, back when Syria was 'friendly'. No-one expected him to survive interrogation there.

Yet the man is alive and someone has broken him out of jail.

Bad news for the former foreign secretary who authorised his rendition. And Jude's boss Queen Bee who knew he wasn't a terrorist at all, but an innocent bystander. Now she calls Jude back from a dangerously enjoyable mission involving a Russian diplomat's wife.

He has a new job: close down this embarrassment. Fast.

But embarrassment is only the beginning. Someone is using the former prisoner to front a new and unspeakably terrifying campaign. Someone not even ISIS can control.

He is like a rumour, a myth, a whisper on the desert wind. But he is real and he is coming for us ...

He is the genius known only as ...

The Stranger.

From the corridors of Westminster to the refugee camps of Jordan, the back streets of East London to the badlands of Iraq, The Stranger is a nerve-shredding journey of suspense as Jude Lyon pieces together the shape of an implacable horror coming towards him - and a conspiracy of lies behind him.

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781529324327
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 245 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 30 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

Conway . . . has devised one of the greatest villains in 21st Century spy literature - The Sunday Times

Top echelon, adrenalin-pumping entertainment all the way - Irish Independent

The sense of danger is deep and unsettling - The Financial Times

Skilfully balancing elements of the action thriller with a deeper look at the war in Syria and its refugee crisis, Simon Conway deserves to be a bigger name in the spy firmament. - James Owen, The Times (Saturday Review)

a bit of Homeland, a touch of Spooks and an undercurrent of The Thick Of It - Sunday Mail

A story SO strong, you suspect it MUST be true! The Stranger renders Simon Conway one of the 21st century's masters of the thriller genre - Jon Snow

Probably my favourite book of the year . . . a fabulous thriller, full on, remarkable and ingenious. If you don't read it, you're missing out big time! - Michael Jecks

The plot delivers chilling terrorist action and plenty of surprises - Sunday Times Crime Club

All the ingredients of a classic spy thriller, expertly executed. Heart-pounding stuff - Michael Ridpath

A novel with visceral thrills and the grand chess of international espionage. Throw in a hero and an anti-hero for our times, and you have one of the best thrillers of recent years - Misha Glenny, author of McMafia

It seems wrong somehow that events so terrible should be so enjoyable. It's testament to Conway's skill as a writer and his experience of conflict that this novel is so bloody thrilling - Rowan Somerville, author of Beat

Top echelon adrenaline-pumping entertainment all the way - The National

Conway is the master of the modern thriller . . . A taut, tight tale of divided loyalties - The i

A white-knuckle ride to hell and back delivered with exhilarating authenticity - Chris Brookmyre

Sharp, topical, contemporary and full of great action - Robert McCrum

This book puts Simon Conway into the top flight of thriller writers probing the darker corners of the 'war on terror' - Allan Little, BBC special correspondent and Chairman of the Edinburgh Book Festival

Conway doesn't just talk the talk, he's walked minefields in war zones making them safe . . . this story of terror plots and British agents charged with stopping them reeks of authenticity - Peterborough Telegraph

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“One of my top reads this year”

This is one of my top reads this year.
I have to admit that it is also my first book by the author and what an impression he has left. The story begins with a gift from MI6 in 2006 to the Syrian authorities of a man... More

Paperback edition
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“Fresh concept - crime for 2020”

I had heard so much about this book that I was very pleased to be given the opportunity to review The Stranger from NetGalley. Needless to say it didn’t disappoint and I finished it in 24 hours. The plot revolves... More

Hardback edition
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“Conway No Stranger to Triumph With This Novel”

Scottish author Simon Conway’s fifth novel looks poised to position him as one of the best authors working in the thriller genre today c

Full confession: I’d heard of Simon Conway but this is the first novel of his... More

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