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Playing with Death
Playing with Death | Simon Scarrow, Lee Francis
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PLAYING WITH DEATH is a gripping, edge-of-your seat contemporary thriller that marks a new direction for legendary historical novelist Simon Scarrow, writing with exciting new talent Lee Francis. Not to be missed by readers of David Baldacci and Michael Crichton. SOMETIMES, THE MONSTER WINS... And FBI Special Agent Rose Blake knows it more than most. Haunted by a failed undercover mission, she is finding it hard to shake the memory of her close encounter with a ruthless serial killer - one who is still free, and could come for her at any time. The call to investigate a suspected arson attack is a welcome distraction. It's not the kind of case usually assigned to the FBI, but nothing about this crime is usual. As Rose digs deeper, she finds herself confronting the kind of imagination her son might see in the fantasy worlds of his video games. And when your opponent is a killer, nothing feels like a game...
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TorieStorieS
Playing with Death | Simon Scarrow, Lee Francis
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Bailedbailed

I‘m a fan of serial killer thrillers, but this is the first official #Bail of 2019 for me! I feel a little guilty but the only reason to slog through 447 pages would be to keep track of the inaccuracies (like San Franciscan FBI agents driving Changan cars- a car type only in mainland China), to laugh at the inauthentic characters or to marvel over the clunkiest sentence construction and verb tense issues... but here‘s my #Shamrocks! #LiteraryLuck

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Karin1
Playing with Death | Simon Scarrow, Lee Francis
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The scariest prediction for using internet!

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IReadThereforeIBlog
Playing with Death | Simon Scarrow, Lee Francis
Panpan

Simon Scarrow and Lee Francis's tech thriller (the first in a new series) has some interesting ideas but is ultimately a leaden, two-dimensional affair where most men are rapists or sex creeps, the antagonist is every serial killer cliche imaginable, the protagonist dull and worthy and the twists eminently guessable so that it was an effort to get to the end.