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Published: 18th June 2024
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The Negotiator: A propulsive, edge-of-your-seat thriller that asks: can you ever free yourself from your past
By (Author) Brooke Robinson
Vintage Publishing
Harvill Secker
18th June 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world
Paperback
336
Width 152mm, Height 234mm, Spine 25mm
414g
Three Hours meets The Accomplice and The Silent Patient, The Negotiator is an edge-of-your-seat, heart-wrenching thriller that asks- can you ever free yourself from your past SHE'S MEANT TO SAVE LIVES... NOT DESTROY THEM. Former police officer Tia quit the Met years ago when she failed her exam to become a negotiator, her dream job. But when a peaceful climate protest at a London museum turns deadly, and one of the radicalised group members takes Tia and others hostage, she realises this is her chance to finally prove she has what it takes. Only not everyone gets out of the siege alive. Three years later, Tia discovers that the surviving hostages are being harassed and threatened by an anonymous person, leading one of them to take their own life. Refusing to have another death on her conscience, Tia begins to investigate. But Tia was a hostage that day too... and now she's a target.
Brooke Robinson grew up in Sydney and as a playwright, has had numerous plays commissioned and produced in her native Australia. In the UK, her work has been shown at the Old Vic theatre and London's Vault Festival. She studied drama at RADA (The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) and City, University of London. The Interpreter is her debut novel.