Eighty year old Wilbur Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Smith and http://www.wilbursmithbooks.com/) has won fans the world over for his heart-racing novels that span continents and centuries. Incredibly, he has been publishing books for nearly fifty years. His novels have hit bestseller lists in the United States – and everywhere else – and sold 120 million copies. As a writer of action-adventure and the African continent, Smith is without peer, and with Vicious Circle he shows no signs of slowing down. His most recent bestseller, Those in Peril, launched a new contemporary series of thrillers that give Clive Cussler and Stephen Coonts a run for their money. Hero Hector Cross, a tough former soldier who has fought pirates and terrorists in the lawless waters off the coast of Africa, returns in another captivating adventure. With film rights already acquired for Those in Peril, this new series promises to continue building on Wilbur Smith’s history of blockbuster success.
A brief summary of the story is as follows. When Hector Cross’s life is overturned, he immediately recognizes the ruthless hand of an enemy he has faced many times before. A terrorist group has re-emerged – like a deadly scorpion from beneath its rock. Determined to fight back, Hector draws together a team of his most loyal friends from his former life in Cross Bow Security, a company originally contracted to protect his beloved wife, Hazel Bannock, and her company, the Bannock Oil Corp. Together, they travel to the remotest parts of the Middle East, to hunt down those who pursue him and his loved ones. For Hazel and Hector have a child, a precious daughter, who he will go to the ends of the earth to protect. And brutal figures from the Bannock family’s past – thought long-gone – are returning, with an agenda so sinister that Hector realizes he is facing a new breed of enemy. It is one whose shifting attack and dark secrets take Hector to the heart of Africa and to a series of crimes so shocking they demand revenge.
560 pages in Pan Macmillan
ISBN 978-1447260646
Wilbur Smith