Dying Day
By (Author) Robert Ryan
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
1st November 2007
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
823.92
Paperback
352
Width 132mm, Height 197mm, Spine 24mm
247g
Laura is determined to track down her missing sister, but is in danger of getting caught up in a country on the brink of the Cold War, in this gripping new novel from bestselling Rob Ryan.
She is waiting on a street corner in Piccadilly, London, with a Colt .32 in her handbag. Laura McGill is desperate to find out what happened to her sister Diana. Both were Special Operation Executive (SOE) spies during World War Two. One night in 1944, Diana was flown into occupied France but never returned. Could she still be aliveJames Hadley Webb, the man who sent Diana on her final mission, is now a spy in Berlin. Despite attempts to stop her, Laura travels to Germany to confront him and soon becomes caught in the crossfire of a bloody turf war fought between the East and the West for control of the city.'Thrilling post war espionage action' -- Tatler
Rob Ryan was born in Liverpool. He has written for The Face, Arena, Conde Nast Traveller, Esquire, GQ Magazine and The Sunday Times. He lives in north London with his wife and three children.