INTRUDERS BY E. C. SULLION
Paperback published by Red Door 18th June 2020
Breaking in is only the Beginning.
There is a safe in a secure compound in South America.
Your job is to bring me the contents of that safe.
Disgraced security consultant Tom Holt accepts a job from a mysterious lawyer, on behalf of a client named Capricorn.
Holt’s team comprises Anil, safe – cracking ex- con, Ray, a disgruntled logistics man, and Becca, a fiery red-headed thief with as much attitude as she has talent for picking pockets.
On arrival in the alluring Argentine city of Buenos Aires, Holt’s past swiftly catches up with him. As he begins to question the clients motives, he finds they are darker, more sinister characters who slowly loyalty to his employer.
Who is Capricorn? What’s inside the safe?
Tom Holt is about to discover how far he will go to expose the truth, even if it means risking everything, including his own life.
MY REVIEW
It’s impossible not to like Intruders. The story is so tense and fast paced I give the storyline of Intruders one rule there’s no room for flicking through the pages. The story has a kind of feeling like a James Bond movie or Alex Rider, with all the action planning of a task set for Tom Holt.
Lawyer Albert Denham has a job offer from his secret client, for ex military Tom Holt. The lawyer can’t disclose information who gave Denham Tom’s name & address. I found it quite creepy how the lawyer Denham knew everything about Tom and his whole life.
There’s no question about it far as Denham is concerned Tom is the right man to do a top special job, as Tom speaks Spanish. Denham wants Tom Holt to break into a safe and bring its contents back to him. Without bringing back the contents Tom Holt will not get paid.
The mission is that Tom will to go to Buenos Aires where a team is currently based and to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, then break into a safe and bring back all the contents of the safely back. Tom Holt knows all about systems people put up in place with locks, fences, CCTV, so he should be able to complete this mission. Although this task is illegal, Tom must sign a non-disclosure agreement of this project.
Tom arrives in Argentine meeting up with a man named Anil, who is a safe cracking ex con, and with another man Ray Caulder, Rebecca Wylde who is fiery red headed thief.
It is the house of Sabina Cordero who’s compound that will be surrounded by a towering electric fence, and fingerprint recognition entry system, that Tom and his teammates are to break into Sabina’s safe. But with inside information Tom Holt finds there is a big snag, Sabina wears her own key to the safe around her neck at all times.
What will Tom Holt’s next plan be to be able to get into the safe and deliver its contents to Lawyer Albert Denham?
And what is the safe?
I would like to thank very Red Door for sending me a finished paperback Intruders, and for inviting me to the summer blog tour today.
How the story of Intruders began.
In May 2016, the author Emma Sulllion, moved with her husband and two small children to Uruguay in South America, to work in the small but perfectly formed British Embassy in Montevideo. But she barley spoke any Spanish and had no idea what to expect. She lived on a secure housing compound known as Lomas de la Tahona, the basis for Aves de Las Colinas in this novel. The house overlooked the ninth hole of the surrounding golf course. A few months later Emma Scullion started writing Intruders. Almost all of the places in this story are real, from La Huella in Jose Ignacio, Lagomar Beach, into the vibrant streets of Recoleta and La Boca in Buenos Aires, to the apocalyptic playground on Costa Rica street in Carrasco Lagomar Beach and the dusty tracks of the Canelones landscape.
ABOUT AUTHOR EMMA SCULLION
E.C. Scullion is British Author. She joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 2003. For the past eleven years she has managed to escape Westminster, working in British Embassies in Beijing, Bangkok, Panama City and Montevideo in Uruguay. She is a graduate of the Faber Academy and INTRUDERS is her first published novel. She now lives in Rome with her husband and two children.
You can follow her on Twitter @ECScullion or on Facebook @E.C. Scullion Author.
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