Reflex Action - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

It is twelve years since Ernest Fisher defected to the West, twelve years during which he has tried to elude his past -to forget the wariness, the fear and the cunning that once made him a successful undercover operative in the security service of his former homeland. Twelve years in which he has gradually settled down to the quiet anonymity of suburban life, an insurance clerk's job, a wife and children. And during these years he has sought to bury the bitterness which drove him to swear an oath of vengeance - never fulfilled - on his former chief, the man who betrayed him.Now his old enemy is visiting Britain in the new role of trade minister, and Ernest Fisher is abruptly made aware that his own life is in mortal peril - that the man he once swore to kill is protecting himself by arranging to have Fisher eliminated.So begins this exciting novel of suspense - one of the most gripping tales of hunter and the hunted since Geoffrey Household's classic, Rogue Male.Running and hiding, having to run again, Fisher is forced to re-learn his almost-forgotten training in a desperate effort to save himself and his family. For this hunting ground is no vast wilderness but the streets of the city where an office, a car park ¬even his own home - can hide a trap primed to snap shut on himself, his wife, his children. As the enemy systematically blocks every avenue of escape, Fisher turns into a cornered animal, consumed by the anger and fear that first made him swear that oath to kill. Deftly and ingeniously, with ever-mounting tension, Chris Fitzsimons leads us into the soul of the hunted, until the moment when one finds the other in the cross hairs of a telescopic sight...

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