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A Fatal Game by Nicholas Searle

Penguin Books are publishing the hardback of A Fatal Game at the beginning of July and are offering reading groups the opportunity to read and review author of The Good Liar, Nicholas Searle’s, latest white-knuckle tale of betrayal and espionage. We have 5 sets (a maximum of 12 per group) to giveaway to 5 reading groups!

About the book
A terrorist attack has just hit a busy railway station. Jake Winter was the British intelligence officer in charge of stopping the attack and now his career, and his conscience, are in freefall . . .

Jake’s next anti-terror operation has to be a success. He has got himself a new source – a young British Asian man, Rashid, recently returned, apparently disillusioned, from battle, who he hopes is the key to foiling the next attack and to getting Jake to the leader of the network. But is Rashid really working for British intelligence, or has Jake put his faith in the wrong man once again?

A Fatal Game is the story of an organization, and a single man, in a state of panic. And panic is the last thing you need when you’re playing a game like this . . .

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