Grace Flint Books In Order
- Flint (2000)
- Mandrake (2002)
- Flint’s Code (2006)
Non fiction
- Destination Disaster (1976)
- The Plumbat Affair (1978)
- The Falklands War (1982)
- The Cocaine Wars (1988)
- Hunting Marco Polo (1991)
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Flint
For more than twenty five years, Paul Eddy has been writing about intrigue as one of the London Sunday Times’s principal investigative reporters. Some things, however, cannot be put in a newspaper…
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An exceptionally talented undercover policewoman, Grace Flint nearly dies in a botched sting operation. Months later, physically healed but psychologically scarred, she gets an unexpected clue about her attacker, and disappears on a mission of revenge unaware that she is about to pull the first string that will unravel a vastly complex web of international treachery, extortion, and murder. Pursuing her, using whatever clues he can find, is Harry Cohen, the former chief legal adviser to the British Security Services, who has been drawn back in as an impartial outsider because everybody is worried about Flint‘s safety. Or are they? Much to his surprise, he finds himself tugging on a string of his own that leads him high into governments on both sides of the Atlantic and into a conspiracy with unexpected resonances, not only for him but for Flint. For there are many kinds of betrayal, and some of them are worse than others…
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Rich with intricate plotting and writing of stunning originality and intensity, Flint is a seductive debut thriller from an elegant new master of the art. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content The title Flint suggests something incendiary, and that is precisely the word to describe Inspector Grace Flint. Keenly observant and physically courageous to the point of madness, Flint is a complicated hero*ine who has a personal stake in hunting down a notorious money launderer who, we learn, is just the first in a chain of high level bad guys. In the first chapter, a sting operation turns bad and Flint‘s partner is executed. Flint herself is literally smashed to bits. Pistol whipped and kicked in the face, she requires multiple plastic surgeries to reconstruct a mere approximation of her old face, a mask that rarely betrays the rage that motivates her remarkable bravery.
Hot on the trail of her assailant, Flint disappears from her home base of London, which raises the concern or is it something else? of her supervisors. They commission Harry Cohen, former chief legal adviser to the British Security Services, to find her. The search leads Flint and Cohen, working separately, high into governments on both sides of the Atlantic, where they unravel a conspiracy whose participants will stop at nothing to keep it a secret.
But the conspirators are up against formidable detectives. Flint‘s mother disappeared suddenly on a country walk when Grace was just 5 years old; the disappearance shapes her personality from then on. Cohen lost his wife to cancer; just 34, she was a victim of misleading medical tests that allowed cancer to metastasize before it was diagnosed. Flint and Cohen are motivated by a strong sense of justice, and they’re dangerous because they each think they’ve got nothing to lose.
Author Paul Eddy spent 25 years as an investigative crime reporter for London’s Sunday Times, and his broad research crams the novel with highly verisimilar details. Grisly without being gratuitously violent, Flint explores human motivations with the same alacrity that it delves into the intricacies of international financial scams and the dirty work it takes to hide them. This book is truly a page turner, full of depth but brilliantly fast paced. Kathi Inman Berens
Mandrake
Critics everywhere fell in love with undercover cop Grace Flint. Said the Cleveland Plain Dealer, ‘She’s brave beyond words, troubled, stubborn she’s so real, and yet so larger than life, that she captivates the reader and never lets go. By the time you reach the scary, riveting, satisfying end of Flint, you’ll be wishing its sequel were already here.’ And now it is. Recently married and living in the United States, Flint watches in horror as the money laundering investigation she is directing explodes before her eyes: an FBI agent dead, her targets flown, her own conduct under question. But it’s nothing compared to the chill she feels when she realizes who the leak must have been. As it quickly becomes evident that none of the things she’d believed about the sweet, unworldly man she’d married are true, it also becomes clear that, with the man now vanished, her only chance to save her career and self respect is to track him down herself. But that is the last thing that will be clear. For her voyage of discovery is just beginning…
and it will take her to places far darker and more surprising than any she has ever known. Written with stunning originality, this is in every way a superior thriller, signaling a hero*ine and an author who will be around for a long time to come.
Hunting Marco Polo
For more than 20 years Howard Marks knew no other life than that of trafficking mari*juana. He began selling it to make ends meet in 1966 when he was an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford. Between 1971 and 1973 alone he smuggled ten tons of cannabis into England. He charmed, bluffed and bribed his way out of trouble at every turn, fooling the British police and the Government in the process. This is the story of an international drug trafficking organization and of the obsession of one man to put Marks behind bars. Craig Lovato, a special agent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, stopped at nothing to gather evidence against Marks and his confederates, evaluating thousands of taped telephone conversations, surveillance photographs and documents. His pursuit of Howard Marks became a cat and mouse game played out in 14 countries around the world. In November 1989 Marks, by now in a Spanish prison, was extradited to America. Yet, even behind bars in Miama awaiting trial, Marks did not give up. For months he worked on an elaborate defence, designed to beat the prosecutors with an mixture of dissimulation and outright perjury. He remained supremely confident, but then Lovato played his final card. The authors are former members of the ‘The Sunday Times’ Insight team. They also wrote ‘The Cocaine Wars’.
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