Adam Colclough lives and works in the West Midlands, he writes regularly for a number of websites, one day he will get round to writing a book for someone else to review.
New recruit to The Agency, a shadowy side project of the British secret services, Emma Makepeace has the day from hell on her first solo mission. Tasked with escorting to safety someone the Russians want to capture or kill; she must do so on a night when every CCTV camera in London has been hacked. Add to that the possibility that some of her colleagues might not be entirely on her side and the chances of either of them seeing the dawn look limited.
In this first installment of a promising new series Ava Glass serves up a thriller fueled by pure adrenaline. Set over a single night it uses the streets and alleys of the capital as a maze where anything can happen, and when it does it probably won’t be pleasant.
In Makepeace she has created a central character with the brains and feral instinct for survival that makes an ideal intelligence operative. This is combined with a back story where her personal closet is rammed with skeletons and a personal mission to right an old wrong.
The pace is relentless, and the action scenes conceived with consummate skill, in this her first novel Ava Glass shows herself to be already a master of the dark arts of thriller writing. Based on this opener, fans of the genre are about to encounter a series that will deliver on every level.
