Cold Water
A new standalone thriller set in the sci-fi espionage world of Fractured Europe
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* HUTCHINSON RETURNS TO THE BSFA AWARD WINNING FRACTURED EUROPE *
'A clever, complicated tale of dirty tricks, spies and politics' - GUARDIAN
'Solidly constructed, slightly subversive and supremely speculative' - LOCUS
'A twisty, tense and involving thriller' - BLUE BOOK BALLOON
TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH, YOU MUST RISK EVERYTHING
When Carey Tews retired from Les Coureurs - the clandestine organisation of high-risk smugglers - she swore she'd never go back. Her cover in Hungary was blown, and even if she could have returned, she wouldn't. That is, until an old friend and lover is found dead in mysterious circumstances.
Back for one last job in a Europe fractured into a hundred tiny principalities, with civil unrest and political instability the norm, she must navigate local authorities, rogue operatives and Russian spies.
What she doesn't know is that the investigation will take her to places she couldn't even imagine.
Dave Hutchinson
Dave Hutchinson was born in Sheffield. After reading American Studies at the University of Nottingham, he became a journalist. He's the author of five collections of short stories and one novel, and his novella The Push was shortlisted for the 2010 BSFA award for short fiction. He has also edited two anthologies and co-edited a third. His short story The Incredible Exploding Man featured in the first Solaris Rising anthology, and appeared in the Year's Best Science Fiction collection. He lives in north London with his wife and several cats.
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