In a world where everyone and everything has
its price, who do you trust? The Third Woman is a
powerful and fascinating thriller following the
adventures of Burnell’s unique heroine Stephanie
Patrick. From conspiracy to terrorism, Vienna to Paris,
will she find the truth?
The world isn't run by
governments. It's run by corporations. In other words,
everything and everyone has a price.
Stephanie
Patrick operates under a number of names; Petra Reuter,
known as a gun for hire, is probably the one she uses
most frequently. She used to work for the government.
Now she works for herself.
Robert Newman, who
spends more nights at 35,000 feet than in his own bed,
is an international troubleshooter. But twenty years at
the top have still not purged for him the ghosts of the
past.
A plea for help from an old friend draws
Stephanie to Paris, where she narrowly survives a
terrorist attack, an outrage that according to the
authorities was masterminded by Petra Reuter. Betrayed
in every way, pursued ruthlessly by a faceless enemy,
her identity stolen from her, Stephanie seizes a hostage
to give her a slim possibility of escape. But is the
encounter with Robert Newman really just
chance?
Hunted from Paris to Vienna, Stephanie
and Newman are forced together to survive. Yet the more
she learns, the closer Newman seems to be to the heart
of the conspiracy. Stephanie becomes sure of only one
thing: that the answers will lie with the person who she
knows as The Third Woman.
‘The Third Woman’ is
vividly contemporary, with a welcome return for a unique
heroine.
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