The Payback
- Author Simon Kernick
- Narrator Paul Thornley
- Publisher Transworld
- Publish Date 10 March 2011
- Run Time 10 hours and 8 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
A gripping thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben.
"Pace, pace pace is what Kernick does best" - DAILY MIRROR
"Delights, excites and stimulates, and the only reason you consume it so quickly is because it's so damn good" - GQ
"Fast moving and a gripping race to the dénouement." -- ***** Reader review
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"Completely compelling" -- ***** Reader review
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TWO COPS. ONE CITY. NO MERCY.
Dennis Milne is a former cop and part-time assassin. He kills the bad guys - people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. Now he's in Manila, waiting for his next target: a young woman who's made some deadly enemies.
DI Tina Boyd is in Manila hunting down the man responsible for the death of her lover. She knows he's dangerous. She knows he's ruthless. But she's determined to bring him to justice - even if it kills her.
Two cops with pasts that haunt them - and a present that could see them both dead.
They are about to meet.
And when they do, it's payback time.
Critics Review
Pace, pace, pace is what Kernick does best, and this utterly gripping thriller brings together his great renegade cops Dennis Milne and Tina Boyd for this first time. Revenge is the name of the game here in a filthy Manila
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