Roy Grace #9
Minotaur Books
October 2013
On Sale: October 15, 2013
Featuring: Roy Grace
400 pages ISBN: 1250030188 EAN: 9781250030184 Kindle: B00CQY7S26 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In Dead Man's Time, the latest from international bestselling author Peter James, Roy Grace finds himself up against that most dangerous of all adversariesโa man with fury in his heart who has nothing to lose.
New York, 1922. Five-year-old Gavin Daly and his seven-year-old sister, Aileen, are boarding the SS Mauretania to Dublinโand safety. Their mother has been shot and their Irish mobster father abducted. Suddenly, a messenger hands Gavin a piece of paper on which are written four names and eleven numbers, a cryptic message that will haunt him all his life, and his father's pocket watch. As the ship sails, Gavin watches Manhattan fade into the dusk and makes a promise, that one day he will return and find his father.
Brighton, 2012. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates a savage burglary in Brighton, in which an old lady is murdered and ยฃ10m of antiques have been taken, including a rare vintage watch. To Graceโs surprise, the antiques are unimportant to her familyโit is the watch they want back. As his investigation probes deeper, he realizes he has kicked over a hornets nest of new and ancient hatreds. At its heart is one man, Gavin Daly, the dead womanโs ninety-five-year-old brother. He has a score to settle and a promise to keepโboth of which lead to a murderous trail linking the antiques world of Brighton, the crime fraternity of Spainโs Marbella, and New York.
Roy Grace, in a race against the clock to stop another killing, has met his most dangerous adversary yet.
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