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Someone's messing with the Global Positioning System and no one knows who, or why. The CIA has intelligence of a major terror attack planned for the Middle East, but they have no idea of when and where. And the ultra right-wing Christian sect, The Church of the White Cross, is back doing what it does best: laying down carnage and inflaming anti-Muslim hatred.
Sam Green's been fired from SIS/MI6 for being a maverick operator and is trying to get her life back together. Skiing on a shoestring in Austria, she spots a face in the crowd. And it's a face that doesn't want to be recognised. But it knows she knows - and that can't be allowed.
Then someone lets slip the dogs of war.
Sam's back; this time without SIS support. Pursued from Europe to Venezuela, via The Bahamas and Miami, her enemies are seemingly one step ahead. With a single act of terror the world could be plunged into a religious war that would last for decades. With only the help of her old German hacking pal, Wolfgang, together can they prevent Armageddon?
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Roland Ladley's fourth book covers the globe: Europe, The Bahamas, The US, The Middle East and South America. Ladley writes with such realism and pace it's sometimes difficult to keep up. Stay with him, though. The ending, as always, is never what you think it's going to be.
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In praise of the Sam Green series:
'... the best I have read in many years.'
'A captivating thriller and an absolute page turner.'
'Enjoying this series even more than the Reacher books.'
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About the author:
Roland Ladley's detailed, but flowing narrative has been compared to Le Carre and Deighton; Sam Green, his 'flawed but resolute' protagonist, to a female Jack Reacher - 'only more edgy and much more prone to tears.' His second spy thriller in the Sam Green series, Fuelling the Fire, won a publishing contract with Kindle Scout and went on to become a best-seller in its genre. His other five books, Unsuspecting Hero, The Innocence of Trust, For Good Men To Do Nothing, On The Back Foot To Hell and Blood Red Earth, have been equally well reviewed in both the UK and the US.
If espionage is your bag - and you're after realistic, up-to-date conspiracy thrillers with a strong female lead - then the Sam Green series is waiting for you.
To bring realism to his writing Roland Ladley draws upon twenty-five years military service, including complex tours of Bosnia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. Subsequent work as a teacher enables him to communicate lucidly to a wide audience, and two grown-up daughters ensures he can laugh at himself and find comic moments in his writing when the tension is at its greatest.
Now a full time writer based in Bristol, UK, he lives an itinerant lifestyle with his wife in their motorhome, posting a travel/writing blog and marketing his six Sam Green novels. With the books' cinematic style, it's not surprising that the first, Unsuspecting Hero, has been turned into a mini-series screenplay and is being considered by a well-known British director.
Find him via his blog: https: //thewanderlings2013.wordpress.com". And follow him on Twitter or via Facebook @rolandtheauthor.
