Revenger

The new novel from one of Britain's best thriller authors, sees Sam Carver in his biggest adventure yet

'Intelligent, topical, articulate action'

Tom Cain is the pseudonym for an award-winning journalist, with twenty-five years experience working for Fleet Street newspapers. He has lived in Moscow, Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. He is the author of The Accident Man,The Survivor, Assassin, Dictator and Carver.

Ex-marine Samuel Carver makes bad things happen to worse people. He is used to being in complete control. So when he finds himself caught in the middle of a riot in South London, he must fall back on his instincts and years’ of training as the riot turns into a battleground. 
 
Someone planned this riot for political gain and now Carver – in the wrong place at the wrong time – looks like the perfect scapegoat. Wanted by the police for murder, if he is to clear his name he is going to have to find out who is really behind these events. The truth will shock even Carver – and find him pitted against a deadly enemy who knows all of Carver’s secrets and in a fight that will bring him face to face with a killer without conscience. 
 
Set in a Britain in turmoil, with riots on the nation’s streets, the euro in crisis, and a political system in disarray, Revenger is a classic Tom Cain thriller that once again rips its story from the headlines of tomorrow's newspapers.

Carver

From the co-author of Predator, the new No.1 bestseller by Wilbur Smith - the explosive fifth thriller featuring Sam Carver, 'The Accident Man'.

A byword for intelligent, topical, articulate action... Carver is a reliable treat

Tom Cain is the pseudonym for an award-winning journalist, with twenty-five years experience working for Fleet Street newspapers. He has lived in Moscow, Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. He is the author of The Accident Man,The Survivor, Assassin and Dictator.

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shockwaves around the financial world. Never before had such a large and prestigious organisation been allowed to fail, and to fail so quickly. It began a domino effect, hitting banks and economies around the world. Theories abound as to the cause of the collapse - the sub-prime bubble, bad management, even good old fashioned greed. 
 
But what if it was none of the above. What if Lehman Brothers had been brought to its knees by the deliberate and wilful act of one man bent on a course of financial terrorism? Moreover, what if it was only a dry run for a bigger and even bolder attack on the financial capital of the world, the City of London? 
 
Samuel Carver is about to find himself on the biggest mission of his life.

Dictator

From the co-author of the new No.1 bestseller by Wilbur Smith - Predator - the action-packed fourth thriller featuring Sam Carver, 'The Accident Man'.

Tom Cain just goes from strength to strength. If you have yet to sample his books, start soon. Its like James Bond, but even better!

Tom Cain is the pseudonym for an award-winning journalist, with twenty-five years experience working for Fleet Street newspapers. He has lived in Moscow, Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. He is the author of The Accident Man,The Survivor and Assassin.

Africa has had more than its share of dictators, but Henderson Gushungo may be the worst. Millions starve and opponents are flung in jail, while Gushungo and his cronies get rich on the country's rich natural resources. 
 
A powerful consortium of political and business interests offer Samuel Carver the job of enforcing regime change. Can the taking of one life save millions of others? And can Carver trust the men who hired him? 
 
As the action hurtles from the plains of southern Africa to the teeming streets of Hong Kong, and an old enemy rises from the grave to haunt him once more, Carver becomes both the hunter and the hunted in a deadly game where the survival of a nation is at stake.

Assassin

From the co-author of the new No.1 bestseller by Wilbur Smith - Predator - the thrilling third adventure to feature Sam Carver, 'The Accident Man'.

The most audacious and timely thriller in years

Fast-moving, cleverly constructed and very readable

Tom Cain is the pseudonym for an award-winning journalist, with twenty-five years experience working for Fleet Street newspapers. He has lived in Moscow, Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. He is the author of The Accident Man and The Survivor.

He is the most popular President in decades - which is why they want him dead 
 
When a people-trafficker dies a violent death in Dubai, and a gangland money-launderer has a fatal car accident in San Francisco, both bear the hallmarks of a Sam Carver 'accident'. 
 
The only problem is Sam Carver no longer plays that game. He made a promise. But someone is setting Carver up, framing him for crimes he didn't commit. And now his old paymasters at MI6 want him stopped. 
 
A copycat killer wants to crush Carver, and then beat him at his own game by hitting the world's most prominent target, the new President of the United States. 
 
Carver will have to use all his cunning and tradecraft to stop this deadly opponent. Alone and on the run, he must fight to clear his name - but first he must stop a fatal shot that will be heard around the world.

The Accident Man

The best first thriller I have read since The Day of the Jackal, and that was a long time ago. With one mightly bound Tom Cain has vaulted over Archer and Grisham and stands close on Freddie Forsyth's tail

Audacious, authentic, full of tension and tradecraft... maybe it's true and maybe it isn't, but either way it is a great thriller read

Like the Bourne movies meets Frederick Forsyth

Reading The Accident Man is an exhausting, exhilarating and utterly enjoyable experience. That Cain manages to gain, and maintain, our sympathies for Carver - the hired assassin responsible for the death of the Princess of Wales - is quite a feat in itself. Yes, it's escapist stuff, yet somehow entirely believable. I strongly urge you to read this book. It's a perfect thriller

Tom Cain is an award-winning journalist with twenty-five years' experience working for Fleet Street newspapers, as well as for major magazines in Britain and the US. During the course of his career he has conducted several hundred in-depth interviews with senior politicians, billionaire entrepreneurs, Olympic athletes, movie stars, supermodels and rock legends. He has investigated financial scandals on Wall Street, studio intrigues in Hollywood and corrupt sports stars in Britain. He has lived in Moscow, Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. Although he has edited four magazines, published over a dozen books, written film scripts and been translated into twenty languages, this is his first thriller.

Meet the Accident Man, Samuel Carver 
 
Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Drug-baron's helicopter develops mechanical failure mid-flight: Samuel Carver. Terrorist blown-up in his own bomb factory: Samuel Carver. Ex-SAS, now freelance mercenary he is the frontline weapon of the 'Consortium', a black-ops British government outfit, or is it? 
 
Carver is called to do a hit at very short notice. Do this job for us and be paid very well. Refuse and you better run and hide. He believes the target to be a high-ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job is to organise a car crash in a Paris underpass. 
 
But Carver is being set up. When he discovers the real identity of his target, and more importantly the identity of the target's female companion, he knows one thing - his life is over. This is a secret too big to let him live, unless he can track down the real villains before they get to him. 
 
Combining the plotting of Robert Ludlum, with the pace and tension of Frederick Forsyth, Tom Cain is a major new thriller writer and The Accident Man is a classic in the making and launches Samuel Carver straight into the top rank of action heroes.

Tom Cain

Jason Bourne meets From Russia With Love. If you like breakneck pace, glamorous settings, a never-say-die hero, and the stakes bursting with end-of-world consequences, this one is for you

Samuel Carver is a classic flawed hero to match all the greats... and we want more of him!

Tense, terse and fraught with anxiety, The Survivor makes you zip through the pages as if your life depended upon reaching the conclusion before your heart gives out

Another stunner... The pace of the narrative and the twists of the storyline make for compulsive and vastly entertaining reading

Irresistible. Smart and fast paced, with everything you want from an international spy thriller

Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people. He's very good at his job. But nobody's perfect. And one of Carver's targets has got away. 
 
Now the world faces a new age of conflict driven by religious fanaticism. In Russia, the government have admitted they no longer know the whereabouts of one hundred small-scale 'suitcase nukes'. In Afghanistan and Kosovo, ruthless terrorists plot the downfall of their hated enemies. In Texas, a dying billionaire plots his own personal Armageddon. 
 
And Carver can do nothing to stop them. He was beaten and tortured and left to die, but Samuel Carver is a hard man to kill. When he awakes in a Swiss sanatorium from weeks of torment, he discovers that the woman he loves has vanished. Somehow he must find the strength to track her down. 
 
Carver's hunt will take him deep into the heart of a conspiracy in which the lives of millions are at stake. He must confront an agonizing choice between his duty and his heart, and face the ultimate sacrifice. As the clock ticks down to doomsday, who will survive the final, explosive conflagration? 
 
In The Survivor the worlds of fact and fiction collide in a thriller that grips from the first page to the last.

The Survivor

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Jason Bourne meets From Russia With Love. If you like breakneck pace, glamorous settings, a never-say-die hero, and the stakes bursting with end-of-world consequences, this one is for you

Samuel Carver is a classic flawed hero to match all the greats... and we want more of him!

Tense, terse and fraught with anxiety, The Survivor makes you zip through the pages as if your life depended upon reaching the conclusion before your heart gives out

Jason Bourne meets From Russia With Love. If you like breakneck pace, glamorous settings, a never-say-die hero, and the stakes bursting with end-of-world consequences, this one is for you

Samuel Carver is a classic flawed hero to match all the greats... and we want more of him!

Tense, terse and fraught with anxiety, The Survivor makes you zip through the pages as if your life depended upon reaching the conclusion before your heart gives out

Jason Bourne meets From Russia With Love. If you like breakneck pace, glamorous settings, a never-say-die hero, and the stakes bursting with end-of-world consequences, this one is for you

Samuel Carver is a classic flawed hero to match all the greats... and we want more of him!

Tense, terse and fraught with anxiety, The Survivor makes you zip through the pages as if your life depended upon reaching the conclusion before your heart gives out

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