“This is the best first thriller
I have read since The Day of the
Jackal, and that was a long time ago. With one mighty
bound, Tom Cain has vaulted over Archer and Grisham
and stands close on Frederick Forsyth’s tail.”
—Wilbur Smith
“The attention to detail, the skillful
building and relaxing of
tension, the imaginative violence, the consistency and
human frailties of his characters—all make this a tour de
force, especially for a first-time novelist. I found myself
favourably comparing Cain’s storytelling with the best of
Ian Fleming and Robert Ludlum as I dashed from one page
to the next, easily polishing off the 320-page novel in two
sessions. This is a franchise with legs, and it should come as
no surprise that the movie rights have already been snapped
up by Paramount.”
—Calgary Herald
“Audacious, authentic, full of tension and
tradecraft. . . .
Maybe it’s true and maybe it isn’t, but either way it’s a great
thriller read. I loved it.”
—Lee Child
“This audacious first novel takes the events
surrounding the
death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and melds them with an
utterly fantastic conspiracy in this tale of assassin-for-hire
Samuel Carver.”
—Ottawa Citizen