Paperback published by RedDoor Press 19th August 2021
Part two in the Tom Holt trilogy
Twelve years ago, Clare Buchanan stepped off a London bus and disappeared.
Hiding out in South America, former security manager Tom Holt has unearthed the secret behind her disappearance that his former employer, Capricorn, is the man responsible.
In London, young journalists Nash Akinyemi resolves to investigate the truth behind Clare’s story and in doing so, make her career. Talented thief Becca Wylde has worked for Capricorn her whole life, but now she must choose between staying loyal to her family, or helping the man she once betrayed. Together Holt, Nash and Becca must risk everything to expose Capricorn’s secrets to the world. From the streets of London, to the shores of Chile, to the tropical islands of panama,the race is on to expose the truth, before its buried for good.
My review
I couldn’t wait to read Evaders part two of the Tom Holt series, so soon as it arrived on my doormat I ploughed in. And wow! What a clever thriller!
I thought I would show you all just how good this story with an extract from chapter 1.
Extract from Evaders
Chapter 1
Chile
20th December, 2016
He didn’t know the missing woman, but he knew her face. Her name was Clare Buchanan. She’d been gone more than eleven years.
In the past few weeks he’d began to feel responsible for her. For her memory.
When he wasn’t required at his job driving-holidaymakers around on jet skis out on the lake, he would choose to retreat to the cabana. Inside, the wrought-iron bed was about ten inches too short for his six-foot frame. Sometimes he would jolt awake, sick to his stomach and drenched in sweat, dreams still plagued by the events in Uruguay and Argentina. When Tom Holt wasn’t thinking about Clare Buchanan, he thought about his friend Anil Choudhury, slumped to the floor in a pool of blood, a bullet in his skull. The cabana considered of three small rooms, built on thick struts into the rugged landscape, which led down to the volcanic sand beaches on the banks of Lake Caburgua. The lake was nestled in the mountains, twenty minutes drive from the adventure town of Pucon, in the shadow of a volcano known as Villarrica. There were no carpets ; instead crumbling wooded floorboards, libel to invasion by wasps and a hoard of ants. It wasn’t light inside, the sunlight only filtered through the windows for a couple of hours in the early afternoon. A light bulb hung from fraying wire on the ceiling in each room. As living spaces went, it was decent enough. It was a place he could hide, for now.
ABOUT AUTHOR E. C. SCULLION
E.C. Scullion is British Author. Emma 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 – part one in the Tom Holt trilogy – is her first published novel. She now lives in Rome with her husband and two children.
EVADERS, the sequel to INTRUDERS and part two of the trilogy, will be released in August 2021.
You can follow her on Twitter @ECScullion or on Facebook @E.C. Scullion Author.
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