Red Card

by Richard Hoyt

Overview

Terrorist murder—in the world's most popular sport!

"A FINE BOOK . . . Hoyt has a fresh invigorating style that grabs the reader immediately."—The New York Times

Millions watch breathlessly as the World Cup, soccer's premier tournament, opens to a triumphant reception in cities throughout the United States. Some players will go home as champions, others in ignominious defeat. And some will not return at all.

"AN ACTION-PACKED THRILLER OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. The writing is taut, the pace doesn't stop, and you don't have to be a sports fan to go for this one . . . Anyone who remembers the Munich Olympics will be swept away by the plausibility of the story." —Romantic Times

"The author has even devised a method of murder never before used in the history of crime fiction." —The New York Times

"Freelancing under the delightfully ridiculous nom de guerre of Major Sid Khartoum, James Burlane is hired by the governing body of world soccer to stop a terrorist who is whacking star players . . . WONDERFULLY QUIRKY . . . A TERRIFIC READ." —Booklist

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162219989
Publisher:	Speaking Volumes
Publication date:	03/05/2021
Series:	James Burlane , #6
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Richard Hoyt graduated from the University of Oregon. After graduating from the U.S. Army Intelligence School in Ft. Holabird, Maryland, he served as a counterintelligence agent then returned to Oregon to earn a master’s degree. A fellow of the Washington Journalism Center, he worked as a Washington correspondent for The Oregonian and other Pacific Northwest newspapers. He later earned a PhD in American studies from the University of Hawaii. Hoyt wrote for both morning and afternoon newspapers in Honolulu and was a stringer for Newsweek magazine. He taught journalism and writing courses at the University of Maryland and Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, before quitting to write novels full-time.

Hoyt is the author of the John Denson mysteries, the James Burlane thrillers and numerous other novels of adventure, espionage and suspense. In researching and writing in more than two dozen countries in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, he has ridden trains across the Soviet Union and riverboats down the Amazon. He now lives in Vancouver, Washington, with his wife Teresita, formerly of Cebu City, Philippines and his daughter Teresa. He has a daughter, Laura, from a previous marriage.