This Suitcase Is Going to Explode

"If it's escape reading you want, This Suitcase is Going to Explode will hold you spellbound. There is a tough, smart‐alec agent, lots of action, and a breathless, down‐to‐the-wire climax. Sex, too. And, at the end, perhaps a message for our times." New York Times

Secret Agent Charlie Sparrow, in his second thrilling adventure, has to stop an evil mastermind who has planted suitcase-sized nuclear bombs in several major U.S. cities...and will ignite them if his demands aren't met. The clock is ticking and only Sparrow can save us all from armageddon.

"Just great. Plan on finishing this in one sitting. It's that good." Hartford Courant

"A tense, exciting yarn and a superior mystery." Charlotte Observer

"Unadulterated enjoyment." Buffalo Evening News

"It makes great reading for a hot, summer evening. It certainly qualifies as blood-chilling." The Northern Sentinel (British Columbia)

Tom Ardies was a reporter and columnist for the Vancouver Sun during the 60’s, a thriller novelist in the 1970s & 80s, and an acclaimed crime writer (under the pseudonym “Jack Trolley”) in the 1990s. His spy novel Kosygin Is Coming, was adapted into the movie called Russian Roulette starring George Segal and Denholm Elliott. He died in 2020 at the age of 89.