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Dead Spy Running by Jon Stock

Dead Spy Running

by Jon Stock

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  • Oct 2010, 320 pages
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Matching the style of le Carré with the high-energy action of Ludlum, Dead Spy Running comes racing out of the gate as the first in a fantastic new series.

From its breathtaking start at the London Marathon, Jon Stock sets a breakneck pace that marks him as a formidable new thriller writer. Dead Spy Running will captivate readers with a story that leaps from a bomb threat in London, to a secret CIA black site in Poland, and on to India, where a spectacular assassination plot threatens to throw world politics into chaos.

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"Starred Review. [A] suspenseful, elegantly written novel." - Publishers Weekly

"An elegant, unstoppable front runner of a spy thriller." - The Observer (UK)

"The sophistication of John Le Carré or David Ignatius ... this is a Jason Bourne sweat-fest with George Smiley's brain." - Daily Telegraph (UK)

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Jon Stock

Jon Stock, a former Delhi correspondent, works for the London Daily Telegraph, writes a column for the Week Magazine in India, and has contributed to BBC Radio. He is married, with three children, and lives in Wiltshire, UK.

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