Deadlock - Tapa dura

Acerca del autor

Sean Black grew up in Scotland, studied film in New York and has written the screenplays for many of Britain's best-known TV dramas.

While writing Lockdown, he undertook a gruelling 24-day close protection course encompassing two weeks in an army camp in Wales, followed by a week of firearms training in the Czech Republic. To research his next novel, Deadlock, he 'did time' in Pelican Bay Supermax prison which is home to some of America's most violent inmates.

He lives with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles.

De la contraportada

One Prisoner

Super-intelligent and brutally violent, Frank 'Reaper' Hays is a leading member of America's most powerful white supremacist prison gang.

One Bodyguard

Ex-military bodyguard, Ryan Lock has been hired to protect him, his mission to keep Reaper alive for a week until he can be brought to trial.

One week to stay alive

But Lock soon realizes that he faces the toughest assignment of his career - just to survive...

De la solapa interior

His mission should have been straightforward: to keep one man alive for one week.

Elite bodyguard Ryan Lock has become a convicted felon, sentenced to twenty years in Pelican Bay, California's notorious supermax prison. Or at least that's what the United States Justice Department want everyone to believe.

In reality, he's there to protect one man.Frank 'Reaper' Hays is a founding member of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood, and is about to give evidence against members of his own gang for the brutal slaying of an undercover ATF agent and his family.

And just to make an already difficult job next to impossible, Reaper refuses to go into protective custody.

In a world dominated by violent men, where alliances are constantly shifting and no one can be trusted, Lock knows that he faces the toughest assignment of his career - just to stay alive ...