To Die in Vienna
Published on 14. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-4778-0516-9 (ISBN)
Description
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
He's seen something that could get him killed. But what?
Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he's been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it's just a job: he never asks who's paying him and why-until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched.
On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this-or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past?
As he's forced into a lethal dance across Vienna, Freddie knows one thing for sure: his only hope for survival is keeping the truth from the other side, and making sure the secrets from his past stay hidden.
He's seen something that could get him killed. But what?
Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he's been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it's just a job: he never asks who's paying him and why-until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched.
On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this-or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past?
As he's forced into a lethal dance across Vienna, Freddie knows one thing for sure: his only hope for survival is keeping the truth from the other side, and making sure the secrets from his past stay hidden.
Reviews / Votes
"Echoes of The Third Man, as well as Hitchcock..." -Sunday Times"There is something rather special about this book. Freddie Makin isn't your ordinary hero and Kevin Wignall isn't your ordinary writer." -Bookanista
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4778-0516-9 (9781477805169)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Kevin Wignall is a British writer, born in Brussels in 1967. He spent many years as an army child in different parts of Europe and went on to study politics and international relations at Lancaster University. He became a full-time writer after the publication of his first book, People Die (2001). His other novels are Among the Dead (2002); Who is Conrad Hirst? (2007), shortlisted for the Edgar Award and the Barry Award; Dark Flag (2010); The Hunter's Prayer (2015, originally titled For the Dogs in the USA), which was made into a film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Sam Worthington and Odeya Rush; A Death in Sweden (2016); The Traitor's Story (2016); and A Fragile Thing (2017).