One Man and His Bomb

by H.R.F.Keating (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2006

  $3.29

  This is a recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding service to Crime Fiction. In a time of uncertainty about safety, Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens spends her workdays assuring Birchester is as secure as possible. Fears of terrorism and sudden attacks and bombings are in the front of her mind on a daily basis. Especially when she receives a telephone call informing her that her twin sons, both police constables, have been the victims of a terrorist trap, killing one and leaving the other in a coma. An uncannily timely and relevant mystery, One Man and his Bomb sees Harriet Martens struggling between her career, her family, and the lines that are drawn by patriotism and duty.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $4.52

  Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens took great pride in her twin sons deciding to follow her into the police by moving to London and joining the Met. Imagine her horror when, as she sits with her husband over evening drinks, the phone rings and she learns that Graham has been killed by a terrorist bomb and Malcolm is in hospital, gravely injured. Her world falls apart around her. Then, because in the wake of a major bomb outrage in a European city every available Greater Birchester Police officer is occupied with anti-terror precautions, she finds herself investigating the theft from a Birchester research station of a herbicide specimen capable in the wrong hands of causing more destruction than any single bomb. To avoid the panic which news of the theft will set off, she has to work in secrecy, all the while fighting off the overwhelming grief of her loss of Graham and her unceasing fears for Malcolm. All but alone in a deceptive world where no one is quite what they seem, she has to earn again the title once given her of the Hard Detective.