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Title: High Pressure

Author: Sam Blake

Synopsis:

A gripping standalone thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of Little Bones and The Dark Room

As temperatures soar across Europe during the hottest summer for forty years, a series of hoax terrorist attacks is generating panic in London. Then a bus blows up on Oxford Street and the hoaxes have suddenly become real.

Student Brioni O’Brien has been desperately trying to contact her older sister since she unexpectedly returned early from travelling, so when Marissa’s bag is found near the site of the explosion, she fears the worst.

Teaming up with terrorism expert Anna Lockharte to search for Marissa, Brioni discovers that her sister had got herself into a very dangerous situation – and that now she and Anna could be caught in the fallout

Teaser Extract

Heading down a side street towards the restaurant, Steve kept to the shaded side. Around him he could hear people talking, see them checking their phones. News of whatever was happening in Wimbledon and Trafalgar Square was spreading.

Verdi’s was in the middle of a row of elegant shops towards the end of the road. Behind him, Steve heard another siren and glanced over his shoulder to see a squad car heading towards him, its lights flashing. A moment later it passed and, brake lights flashing, stopped at the end of the street.

The rear door swung open and immediately a tall dude in a blazer and chinos appeared, crossed the pavement and got in. Although he looked a good ten years older than Steve – maybe forty-five – Steve could tell from the way he moved that he was he was fit, and even from this distance, over six feet tall. Before the man had the door closed, the car was heading off towards Gower Street, its right indicator flashing as the sirens blared on.

Steve straightened his back, pulling himself up to his full five foot nine. He was fit, worked out three times a week, played squash with Reiss. He knew he looked good for his age, didn’t need to be wearing a jacket in this weather to look like he was someone.

As Steve arrived outside the restaurant he slowed so he could glance in, as if he was just passing. He saw Marissa immediately, her blonde hair swept up in a ponytail, a white halter-neck blouse emphasising her tan and hollowed-out collarbones. She was sitting on her own, nursing a glass of white wine about three tables in from the window. As he looked in, she looked up, catching his eye, her eyes opening wide, her smile surprised.

Author Info:

Sam Blake’s debut novel, Little Bones, was No 1 in Ireland for four weeks, and was nominated for Irish Crime Novel of the Year. It launched the bestselling Cat Connolly trilogy. Her first standalone psychological thriller, Keep Your Eyes On Me, went straight to No 1 and its follow-up, The Dark Room was an Eason Ireland No 1 for three weeks. Sam is originally from St. Albans in Hertfordshire but has lived at the foot of the Wicklow mountains for more years than she lived in the UK.

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Buy Links

Amazon UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/High-Pressure-totally-addictive-thriller-ebook/dp/B099W4DDRM

Amazon US – https://www.amazon.com/High-Pressure-totally-addictive-thriller-ebook/dp/B099W4DDRM