Dark Horizon

Resumen del libro

AT 40,000 FEET UP... THERE IS NO PLACE TO HIDE.A fatal crash on a rain-slick road and a brutal murder in an English village set off a deadly chain of events, leading from stormy skies over the Mediterranean Sea to an explosive confrontation on a remote airstrip in North Africa...Only a handful of people know the reason why Kate Hood left the military in disgrace; now a contract pilot for a private jet company, she's looking for a second chance and a better life.But to keep her secrets, she must take a last-minute assignment to fly a covert cargo out of the country to a non-extradition nation, with no questions asked.The cargo is a prisoner who may be the key to a violent terrorist conspiracy - but he swears he is an innocent man, wrongly accused of crimes he played no part in.And as Kate races through the night, on the ground a team of ruthless killers are hunting the people she cares about, threatening their lives to force the pilot to hijack her own aircraft.But do they plan to liberate the captive - or execute him?Trapped at the heart of an escalating crisis, Kate and her mysterious passenger must navigate the conflicting agendas of enemies and allies alike, on a flight into danger that neither of them may survive...

Biografía del autor

James Swallow ha escrito aventuras ambientadas en el mundo de Warhammer 40000 para la revista Inferno! y para la antología What Price Victory. Ha escrito las novelas del oeste de estilo steampunk de la serie Sundowners; Judge Dreed: Eclipse; Rogue Trooper: Blood Relative; The Butterfly Effect, y la antología de terror Silent Night. Sus obras de no ficción incluyen Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher y guías sobre televisión de género y animación. También ha escrito para Star Trek: Voyager, y guiones para videojuegos. Vive en Londres.