The Great Deception
Published on 8. October 2015
336 pages
978-1-910449-48-6 (ISBN)
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Sarah Bone, Labour MP for Nottingham West, has taken a temporary sabbatical from parliament to care for her sick mother. Sarah's ex, Nick Bone, is going straight having served 8 years for cannabis possession. While Sarah is contemplating a relationship with the local chief constable, Nick is seeing Chantelle, not realising she's really Deborah, an undercover cop targeting Nottingham's drug cartels. A phone call to Sarah Bone's mother hints at scandal long buried in the family's political past. What are the dark secrets surrounding Sarah's father, the man who abandoned his family when she was a child? What is the real relationship between Sarah's mother and her paternal grandfather, former Labour supremo, Sir Hugh? And, as Nick is drawn back into Nottingham's underworld, which of his old allegiances will place those closest to him in mortal danger? With The Great Deception, acclaimed writer David Belbin offers up another barnstorming thriller, the third in the Bone and Cane crime series. Dark political intrigue is mixed with gritty urban crime, conjuring a potent cocktail where violence, scandal and betrayal go to the very top of the British establishment.
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David Belbin is the author of more than thirty novels for teenagers and has been translated into twenty-five languages. These include the bestsellers Love Lessons (1998), Festival (2002) and The Last Virgin (2003). In 2004 David established Turning Point, the UK's first conference on Young Adult fiction. He was born in Sheffield but has lived in Nottingham since going to university there. He now teaches Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University. Bone and Cane (Tindal Street, 2011), the first in Belbin's crime series was an Amazon bestseller. The second in the series is What You Don't Know (Tindal Street, 2012).
