The Bombmaker

by Stephen Leather

Overview

Andrea Hayes was one of the IRA's most deadly killers. But when a misplaced bomb ripped apart a group of passing kids, she left all that behind her.

Now, years later, she lives a quiet, suburban life with her husband and young daughter, and her days of violence seem a distant memory. But then her daughter is kidnapped by persons unknown, and the past comes knocking at her door . . .

The Bombmaker was filmed as a two-part drama for Sky TV starring Dervla Kirwan and Mark Womack.

PRAISE FOR STEPHEN LEATHER

'A master of the thriller genre'
Irish Times

'As tough as British thrillers get . . . gripping'
Irish Independent

'The sheer impetus of his story-telling is damned hard to resist'
Sunday Express

Product Details

BN ID:	2940167696198
Publisher:	Stephen Leather
Publication date:	03/27/2024
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	853,741
File size:	399 KB

About the Author

Stephen Leather is one of the UK’s most successful thriller writers, an eBook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan “Spider’ Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country’s most successful eBook authors and his eBooks have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. He has sold more than a million eBooks and was voted by The Bookseller magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the UK publishing world. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages. He has also written for television shows such as London’s Burning, The Knock and the BBC’s Murder in Mind series and two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were filmed for TV. You can find out more from his website www.stephenleather.com

Editorial Reviews

“This is as high-tech and world-class as the thriller genre gets.” —Express on Sunday

From the Publisher

Andrea used to make bombs for Irish dissidents. She was very good at it. But then one of them accidentally killed some Catholic children. So she gave up that line to become a wife and mother. But now her daughter has been kidnapped. If she wants to see the little girl again, she’ll have to make a bomb for the child’s captors. How will she get out of this mess? Who exactly are these people? What do they have to do with the Chinese underworld? This unconvincing thriller gets better treatment than it deserves from Irish actor Sean Barrett, who has a beautiful low voice and who excels at characterization. Y.R. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

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