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ISBN 978-1-83574-057-69 7 8 1 8 3 5 7 4 0 5 7 6Publication: 31st OCTOBER2024ISBN: 9781835740576Price: %u00a39.99Binding: PaperbackFormat: 216 x 138 mmExtent: 300 pp Illustrated: NoneThema: FV Historical FictionAuthor location: West Sussex%u2022 Set in 1879, The Peccavi plot is another gripping historical thriller from best-selling author, Frank Hurst.%u2022 Praise for Hurst%u2019s writing: %u201cHurst%u2019s writing is compelling, a drama of considerable suspense; akin to 007 with%u2022 Ian Fleming style plot building intact. Hurst achieves a level of authenticity that armchair detective writers can%u2019t hope to match.%u201d %u2013 TheFrank Hurst was born in South London and spent thirty-six years as an investigator and intelligence officer for the British Government. He travelled widely in the service of the Crown, including many years working in India, South East Asia and the Eastern Caribbean. Frank has written seven novels. His Golden Triangle Trilogy has received wide acclaim and won literary awards. In 2024 Frank was an executive producer of the documentary film Bangkok %u2013 City of Angels.Nation.%u2022 Hurst received the Outstanding Law Enforcement Award from the US Department of Justice for his work against Howard Marks, aka %u201cMr Nice%u201d and has been a contributor to the recently published Drug War %u2013 The Secret History by Peter Walsh. When London hansom cab driver Henry Gough is forced to cross the line of Victorian respectability in order to feed his family, he is drawn towards city districts awash with vice and crime. Stumbling onto a clandestine plot that will imperil his country, he turns informer and embarks on a dramatic adventure beset with danger.Frank Hurst transports us effortlessly and in some style from the dimly-lit streets of nineteenth-century London to the dusty plains of the Indian Raj and the grand estates of Tsarist Russia, where foreign forces seek to challenge British imperial ambitions in the Orient. Brimming with political intrigue, riddles, romance, violence and deception, this is an epic story, with more than a grain of truth at its core%u2026THE PECCAVI PLOTFrank HurstSales: Star Book Sales LLP T: 01404 515050E: enquiries@starbooksales.comOrders: Troubador Publishing Tradeorders@troubador.co.uk0116 279 2299Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change without notice. 10/05/ 2024