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The Fanatics

Peter Hill

Publisher: Peter Hill

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Summary

The Fanatics (A Political Hostage Thriller)

 
 

 
‘A really good thriller writer…’

 
The
Daily Telegraph

 
 

 
 

 
A
terrorist unit brings sudden death to London.

 
 

 
They have instructions to
assassinate the two leaders of the new radical CDP (Christian Democrat Party).

 
 

 
After gunning down one CDP
leader in his Westminster flat, the pair set off to execute the other but the appearance
of the police forces the pair to avoid capture by seizing the Reverend Paul
Carpenter and his secretary, and barricading themselves into Carpenter’s flat.

 
 

 
The tension mounts during the
siege as the young terrorists, manifestly without scruples, remain oddly calm,
while Commander Allan Dice, an aloof, private man with strong principles and a
deep misery over his wife’s infidelity, who is in charge of the police operation
is all too aware of the appalling threat to the hostages’ lives and the need to
maintain a ruthless pressure of doubt in the terrorists’ minds. 

 
 

 
And beyond the immediate siege
with its vast deployment of police resources there are frenzied repercussions
in the corridors of Whitehall and the Kremlin.

 
 

 
The violent and unforeseen
climax tests all of Dice’s and the hostages’ courage and moral strength.

 
 

 
The
Fanatics is the first of the Commander
Allan Dice books.

 
 

 
 

 
Press
comment on the second of the Commander Allan Dice books, The Washermen

 
 

 
‘Zippy,
intricate Chinese puzzle laid out with high laconic skill … very strong on
sinister rituals, seamy metropolitan locations and gut-churning beastliness.’

 
‘Intricate
and skilful…Hill is more than a find.’

 
The
Sunday Times

 
 

 
‘Very
clever, very nasty.’

 
Marghanita
Laski, The Listener

 
 

 
‘Peter
Hill has done it again—a fast-moving, action-packed thriller involving the
secret service, the police and underworld criminals.’

 
Coventry
Evening Telegraph
Available since: 08/03/2018.

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