Night Owl: A Trasker Thriller

by Andrew Mayne

Overview

A shocking act of sabotage draws a retired spy into a deadly conspiracy in an explosive thriller by an Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author.

After three decades in counterintelligence, Brad Trasker is retired, disillusioned, and dealing with a tragic loss. Spy games are behind him until he attends the launch of a next-generation aircraft. When the project of innovative aerospace CEO Kylie Connor explodes on the tarmac—nearly killing her in the process—Trasker is pulled back into the line of fire.

The mystery of the sabotage quickly deepens. All Kylie’s data has been wiped from the server. One of her engineers has disappeared. A seed investor has died in a suspicious car accident. And a cold-blooded murder raises the stakes even higher.

To discover who’s pulling the strings behind a dangerous conspiracy, Trasker needs to find a motive. Corporate espionage, revenge, or something he can’t yet see? Targeted by assassins, he finds himself overmatched when he realizes he can’t trust anyone—including Kylie. Too long out of a game he no longer understands, Trasker must adapt or die.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662506437
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/2023
Series:	Trasker , #1
Pages:	315
Sales rank:	753,048
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Andrew Mayne is the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Girl Beneath the Sea, Black Coral, Sea Storm, and Sea Castle in his Underwater Investigation Unit series; The Naturalist, Looking Glass, Murder Theory, and Dark Pattern in the Theo Cray series; and Angel Killer, Name of the Devil, and the Edgar Award–nominated Black Fall in his Jessica Blackwood series. He was the star of A&E’s Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne and swam with great white sharks using an underwater stealth suit he designed for the Shark Week special Andrew Mayne: Ghost Diver. He currently works on creative applications for artificial intelligence and as the science communicator for OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT.

Editorial Reviews

2023-09-22
A freelance fixer discovers international intrigue while probing a catastrophic aircraft explosion.

A creepy prologue introduces siblings Luka and Adrik, budding contract killers, making a few extra euros by dispatching a woman. Stateside, the death of his young son, Jason, devastates retired FBI agent Brad Trasker, who waxes philosophical in the grip of his grief as he embarks on a new project. Trasker happened to meet media-shy entrepreneur Kylie Connor when she helped him change a flat tire. Is it karma or design when she summons him to a high-powered meeting in an airplane hangar? Kylie is planning to pilot Sparrow, an experimental hydrogen-powered aircraft she claims "will make aviation globally accessible.” Trasker isn't sure why he's been invited, but he's clearly needed after the demo goes horribly wrong. The aircraft explodes and catches fire; Kylie, engulfed in flames as she stands outside the plane, survives unscathed. Trasker sets about investigating the explosion. The prolific Mayne’s series kickoff at first unfolds like a forensics-heavy police procedural, with short chapters adding new bits of evidence and often introducing new characters. Advanced technology figures prominently; Trasker suspects a projectile fired from a strategically chosen location. The possibility of a Russian connection gives new significance to the prologue and its title to the novel, which morphs into a labyrinthine international thriller. The intensity rises when Trasker meets unctuous Michael Charles Wagner and begins to uncover a complex criminal network, piece by piece. Mayne overreaches, trying to do too many things at once, but the pace never flags.

A brisk, competent thriller that neither challenges nor disappoints.

Kirkus Reviews

[T]he pace never flags. A brisk, competent thriller…” —Kirkus Reviews

“Andrew Mayne knows how to write intelligent, well-researched thrillers, and Night Owl is no exception.” —Bookreporter

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