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Long may he raise hell in the pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e David Baldacci, #1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e bestselling author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Perhaps for the first time, Jack Reacher has a convincing rival in the form of MW Craven's Ben Koenig\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTimes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e-----\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe man who can't feel fear is back, in a race against time to find the woman who knows a secret that could take down the world as we know it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a shocking murder and abduction on the streets of London leads investigators to him, Ben Koenig has no idea at first why the highest echelons of the CIA would need his help. But then he realises he knows the woman who carried out the killings. Ten years earlier, without being told why, he was tasked with helping her disappear.\u003cbr\u003eFar from being a deranged killer, she is the gatekeeper of a secret that could take down the West, so for years she has been in hiding. Until now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd if she has resurfaced, the danger may be closer and more terrifying than anyone can imagine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo Ben Koenig has to find her before it's too late. But Ben suffers from a syndrome which means he can't feel fear. He doesn't always know when he should walk away, or when he's leading others into danger . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFast, brutal and smart, the second book in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling Ben Koenig series is a pulse-raising, adrenaline-filled rollercoaster featuring ruthless killers, hard choices - and one fearless man . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An absolute \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ewhite-knuckle ride\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof a book. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFingernail-chewingly tense, lightning paced\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand as hard-edged as Koenig's Fairburn-Sykes dagger. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJust brilliant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e' Neil Lancaster, bestselling author of the Tom Novak and Max Craigie series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cu\u003eFearless\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand the Ben Koenig series:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Tough, explosive, badass and brilliant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFearless\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis everything you could want in a thriller.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Blistering pace and all-out action, impossible to put down, impossible to forget. If you like Reacher, you'll LOVE this.' Chris Whitaker, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWe Begin at the End\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A knockout thriller! Fans of Reacher will love this.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSteve Cavanagh, bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThirteen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAdrenaline-fuelled plotting, hard-charging characters, and small town evil...this is a thriller with all the right ingredients. And yeah, Reacher fans, you're gonna love this too.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVaseem Khan, award-winning author of the Malabar House series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A superb thriller that will have everyone talking, and gasping.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDavid Baldacci, #1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e bestselling author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Fans of Jack Reacher, get excited. . . Imagine if Reacher and John Wick had brought up a child together, and you'd get Ben Koenig. . . A blistering barnstormer of an action thriller\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this demands to be read.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHeat Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHeat's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Book of the Week (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'If you haven't read any M. W. Craven yet, fix that immediately.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eS. A. Cosby, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRazorblade Tears\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Koenig's insouciant style and sharp thinking pack a very hefty punch. 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Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, respected London wood monger and Court Justice, sets out from his house, early one foggy morning, in his second-best coat. Then he vanishes. Six days later, his body is discovered in a ditch near Primrose Hill. He has been severely beaten, strangled and stabbed through the chest - killed three times, in fact. There's no doubt somebody wanted him dead. The cash in his pockets however is still there. And, in spite of the wet weather and muddy roads, his clothes are dry and his shoes are spotlessly clean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople are quick to connect his killing with the role Godfrey has played in exposing a Catholic plot to kill the King. His name is, after all, an anagram of 'dy'd by Rome's reveng'd fury'. Parliament, whipped into a frenzy by the conspirator Titus Oates, demands a suitable perpetrator is found. But it soon becomes clear that Godfrey had not merely offended the Catholics. And he had, some weeks before, predicted his own death with uncanny accuracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMagistrate John Grey is summoned from his Essex village to investigate an increasingly inexplicable crime and to prevent some innocent men from being hanged as a regrettable political necessity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePraise for L.C. Tyler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Len Tyler writes with great charm and wit . . . made me laugh out loud' Susanna Gregory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I was seduced from John Grey's first scene' Ann Cleeves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Tyler juggles his characters, story, wit and clever one liners with perfect balance'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A dizzying whirl of plot and counterplot'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Unusually accomplished' Helen Dunmore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A cracking pace, lively dialogue, wickedly witty one-liners salted with sophistication . . . 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Her only chance of survival is if she can remain the one that they least suspect . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003egripping, heart-wrenching thriller that explores the fine line between right and wrong, justice and revenge, and how you choose your side when everyone is guilty . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for Brian McGilloway:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A hugely compelling story . . . probably the best novel yet by one of our finest mystery writers. Unmissable' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJOHN CONNOLLY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLEE CHILD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Gripping'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIAN RANKIN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Utterly stunning and beautifully written'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLIZ NUGENT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book is the peak of what crime fiction can do' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSTEVE CAVANAGH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of last year's most impressive debuts' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The tension and heartbreak kept me turning the pages' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePATRICIA GIBNEY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of those rare gems; a beautifully written crime novel that's also brilliantly paced, skillfully plotted and utterly absorbing. Brian McGilloway is, quite simply, a master of his art. Bravo' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJO SPAIN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Utterly compelling' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJANE CASEY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Clever, engaging and beautifully crafted' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIRISH INDEPENDENT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA finely calibrated account of loss, grief and simmering rage' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Superb' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLITERARY REVIEW\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53618777522549,"sku":"9781408718018","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/BOOKSforWEBSITEDONOTDELETE-2025-02-27T131304.558.png?v=1740662788"},{"product_id":"there-came-a-tapping","title":"There Came A-Tapping - Crime Collective Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince losing her parents in a car crash as a teen, Allie has struggled to cope. 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