The Score - Hardcover

Marks, Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0753192020 ISBN 13: 9780753192023

Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books, 2013

Synopsis

DS Catrin Price is recovering from the trauma of her last case, when an old friend enlists her help to find his missing daughter. Visiting him in the Brecon Beacons, she finds him plagued by a shadowy figure. Cat's only clue to finding his daughter is a haunting video of her singing in a local competition. Other girls in the area are also missing, and when one of them turns up dead, Cat fears the worst. Led to one of London's notorious drug gangs, Cat's determined to uncover the truth. But there are people who want to keep it hidden...

About this title

About the Author

During the mid-1980s HOWARD MARKS had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and owned twenty-five companies trading throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana, and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the Drugs Enforcement Agency, he was busted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. His autobiography, Mr Nice, was first published in 1996 and has been published in nine languages. The film of Mr Nice, starring Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny and David Thewliss, was released in 2010.

Review

"An engaging, well-paced crime novel" UK Regional Press Syndication "A very easy and fulfilling read" Viva

Edition details

• Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753192020
• ISBN 13: 9780753192023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368