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The opening prologue shows Laura caught amid shock, confusion, and brutality as a woman is confronted and punished, forcing a young man into a brutal initiation. The story then thrusts the reader into a hostile attack on a bus, where fear, aggression, and racialized threats erupt while Laura takes charge with urgent, clinical determination.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAbout the Author  \nTOM BRADBY is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He has written ten previous novels, including top-ten bestselling Secret Service, which he has co-adapted for ITV. The Master of Rain was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year, and both The White Russian and The God of Chaos for the CWA Historical Crime Novel of the Year. He adapted his first novel, Shadow Dancer, into a film, the script for which was nominated for Screenplay of the Year at the Evening Standard Film Awards.  \nAs a broadcaster, he is best known as the Anchor of ITV’s News at Ten. In his first year in the job, he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society. He has been with ITN for thirty-six years and was successively Ireland Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Asia Correspondent (during which time he was shot and seriously injured whilst covering a riot in Jakarta), Royal Correspondent, UK Editor and Political Editor – a job he held for a decade – before being made the Anchor of News at Ten in 2015.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAlso by Tom Bradby  \nShadow Dancer The Sleep of the Dead The Master of Rain The White Russian The God of Chaos Blood Money Secret Service Double Agent Triple Cross Yesterday’s Spy  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTom Bradby  \nRED SCORPION  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo Claudia, Jack, Louisa and Sam.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue  \nRUNNING DOWN THE path to the house, he skidded to a halt when he saw the ominous line of dark SUVs parked in the drive. His heart sank. What could his father possibly be doing out here, and on a weekday?  \nHe kicked his heels, thought of turning back.  \nBut he was hungry – and late for his lunch.  \nSteeling himself for whatever his father might have found fault with, he crossed the terrace and tried the kitchen first. A mug of coffee sat on the side, untouched, still steaming, but otherwise there was no sign of anyone. He drifted through the cavernous house, calling her name. There was no answer.  \nThe silence made him wonder whether to go looking for trouble, or to avoid it. He still couldn’t think of any good reason why his father was there.  \nHe walked down the steps and onto the lawn. He picked an orange from one of the trees and peeled it. Even eating it did nothing to lessen his hunger or his unease. He looked towards the coffee fields on the far hill, but the workers who had been picking the beans earlier that morning seemed to have vanished into the afternoon haze.  \nHe drifted down by the side of the drying racks to the watchman’s shack, but there was no sound from the usually blaring television inside. Opening the door to the long shed, he stepped into the gloom. It took a second or two for his vision to adjust and, when it did, he saw her sprawled on the ground before his father and one of his men. Her hair was lank and bedraggled, her pretty red dress torn, her beautiful face horribly bruised. Blood trickled down her cheek.  \nHe wanted to run and help her, but his father was holding a gun pressed to her head. As always, he was dressed in an immaculate cream linen suit with an open-necked shirt.  \n‘Come, boy,’his father said, beckoning him.  \nHe didn’t move, his brain struggling to interpret what he was seeing.‘Come!’  \nHe still did not move, so his father dragged her across the concrete floor towards him.  \n‘What are you doing?’he heard himself ask.‘She has betrayed us.’  \n‘Please …’ she whispered, looking up at him, eyes wide and imploring, cheeks glistening with sweat and blood.‘Please …’  \n‘She has betrayed us,’ his father said again,‘and she must pay the price.’  \nHe took a step back. Was this some terrible dream? The words made no sense to him. ‘I don’t understand,’ he said.  \n‘She has betrayed us. She must die. 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