Vicious Circle (Hector Cross) - Tapa dura

Praise for "Vicious Circle""The exciting action scenes and larger-than-life characters ... will appeal to a broad range of thriller fans." --"Publishers Weekly""As adventurous, violent and artful as ever." --Radio 4 (UK)Praise for Wilbur Smith"One of the world's most popular adventure writers." "--The Washington Post Book World""Smith is a master." "--Publishers Weekly""A rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship." "--Tulsa World""Best Historical Novelist--I say Wilbur Smith, with his swashbuckling novels of Africa. The bodices rip and the blood flows. You can get lost in Wilbur Smith and misplace all of August." --Stephen King"The world's leading adventure writer." "--Daily Express" (UK)"Wilbur Smith rarely misses a trick." --"The Sunday Times""Smith is a captivating storyteller." "--The Orlando Sentinel""No one does adventure quite like Smith." --"Daily Mirror "(UK)"A 'thundering good' read is virtually the only way of describing Wilbur Smith's books." --"The Irish Times""Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared." "--The Times" (London)

Hero Hector Cross returns in Wilbur Smith's Vicious Circle, the follow-up to the sensational action thriller, Those in Peril. When Hector Cross's life is overturned, he immediately recognizes the ruthless hand of an enemy he has faced many times before. A terrorist group has re-emerged - like a deadly scorpion from beneath its rock. Determined to fight back, Hector draws together a team of his most loyal friends from his former life in Cross Bow Security, a company originally contracted to protect his beloved wife, Hazel Bannock, and her company, the Bannock Oil Corp. Together, they travel to the remotest parts of the Middle East, to hunt down those who pursue him and his loved ones. For Hazel and Hector have a child, a precious daughter, who he will go to the ends of the earth to protect. And brutal figures from the Bannock family's past - thought long-gone - are returning, with an agenda so sinister that Hector realizes he is facing a new breed of enemy. One whose shifting attack and dark secrets take Hector to the heart of Africa and to a series of crimes so shocking they demand revenge.