THE DEFENCE PB – STEVE CAVANAGH

Everything a great thriller should be and I can t wait to see more of Eddie Flynn. Mark Billingham So Hollywood, punchy and cool and pacy as hell. Eva Dolan Eddie Flynn has 48 hours to save his daughter… Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turned out the two weren t that different. It s been over a year since Eddie vowed never to set foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn t have a choice. Olek Volchek, the infamous head of the Russian mafia in New York, has strapped a bomb to Eddie s back and kidnapped his ten-year-old daughter, Amy. Eddie only has forty-eight hours to defend Volchek in an impossible murder trial – and win – if he wants to save his daughter. Under the scrutiny of the media and the FBI, Eddie must use his razor-sharp wit and every con-artist trick in the book to defend his client and ensure Amy s safety. With the timer on his back ticking away, can Eddie convince the jury of the impossible? Praise for race-against-time legal thriller writer, Steve Cavanagh: A gripping, twisty thriller Ian Rankin, number 1 bestselling author of Rather Be The Devil Legal thrillers are my blind spot, but I ll always make an exception for Steve Cavanagh. Quite simply, THE PLEA is one of the most purely entertaining books you ll read this year. It s a blast. John Connolly, bestselling author of the Charlie Parker series In the crowded field of legal thrillers, Steve Cavanagh stands head and shoulders above the competition, with his skilfully plotted, action-packed and big-hearted Eddie Flynn novels . . . highly intelligent, twist-laden and absolutely unputdownable Eva Dolan, author of the critically acclaimed Tell No Tales A cleverly constructed legal thriller combined with a classic locked-room mystery. Eddie Flynn is fast becoming one of my favourite fictional heroes and Cavanagh one of my favourite thriller writers. S.J.I. Holliday, author of Black Wood Raymond Chandler could have created Eddie Flynn. THE