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Second Skin

Dugald Bruce Lockhart

Publisher: Muswell Press

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Summary

'Bruce-Lockhart has done it again. A brilliant follow-up to The Lizard' Charles Cumming
'A Graham Greene for today' Helen Lederer
Five years after a murderous encounter on the island of Paros, Alastair Haston's world is upended by a startling discovery: a son he never knew existed.
Desperate to learn more, he travels to Athens, but his pursuit is intercepted when MI6 intervenes, coercing him into a high-stakes espionage mission – to infiltrate a suspected mafia operation intent on abducting his son,
As the chase unravels across the Mediterranean, Alistair has a chilling revelation, could the spectre of his past be returning to taunt him? Could the answer lie in that fateful, deadly summer on Paros five years ago?

Available since: 04/18/2024.

Print length: 352 pages.

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