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Total Blackout

Alex Shaw

Total Blackout

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November 26, 2020
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Looking for breakneck pace and a relentless hero? Alex Shaw has you covered
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Synopsis

The start of a gripping new crime thriller series introducing ex-SAS trooper Jack Tate!

When the lights go out…

British MI6 agent, and former SAS trooper, Jack Tate is trying to escape his past when he witnesses a terrorist attack of unthinkable scale. An electro-magnetic pulse knocks out the US power grid, killing anything with a computer processor, throwing the whole country into darkness.

You have to escape the past.

Under the cover of the blackout, a clandestine operation aims to assassinate prominent public figures on US soil. Looting and violence spreads across the country. And Jack Tate’s past comes back to haunt him. As the only intelligence operative on the ground, he is hurled into a mission that will put him – and the people he loves – in immediate danger.

You have to defeat the enemy.

With the fate of the United States on the line, only he can prevent the horror of a new world war.


SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE

Product Information

Number of pages
384
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
#ISBN
Number of pages
9780008412265
Date of Publication
November 26, 2020
Format
Paperback
Weight
230
g
Dimensions
13
x
19.6
x
2.4
cm

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Reviews

Jack Tate is a powerful character, a true Brit hero. A cracking start to a new series!
Alan McDermott
Alex Shaw is a master of the action thriller. Grabbed me from the first page and never let go
Michael Ridpath

About the author

Alex Shaw

ALEX SHAW spent the second half of the 1990s in Kyiv, Ukraine running his own business consultancy before being head-hunted for a division of Siemens. The next few years saw him doing business for the company across the former USSR, the Middle East, and Africa. Most recently he has spent several years in Doha, Qatar.

Alex is an active member of the ITW (The International Thriller Writers organisation) and the CWA (the Crime Writers Association). His writing has also been published in several thriller anthologies.

TOTAL BLACKOUT was Shortlisted for the 2021 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE – BEST PUBLISHED NOVEL.

Alex, his wife and their two sons divide their time between homes in Kyiv - Ukraine, Sussex - England and Doha - Qatar.

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