No Time for Heroes - Softcover

Freemantle, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857974018 ISBN 13: 9781857974010

Publisher: Orion Books, 1995

Synopsis

When a Russian diplomat is killed in Washington, D.C., by a Mafia hit man, FBI supervisor William Cowley contacts his Moscow counterpart, Dimitri Danilov, and together they face the newest organized crime family, one powerful enough to get away with anything. Reprint. PW.

About this title

About the Author:

Brian Freemantle [b. 1936] is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. Charlie M (1977) introduced the world to Charlie Muffin and won Freemantle international recognition—he would go on to publish fourteen titles in the series. 

Freemantle has written dozens of other novels, including two featuring Sebastian Holmes, an illegitimate son of Sherlock Holmes, and the Cowley and Danilov series, about an American FBI agent and a Russian militia detective who work together to comabt organized crime in the post-Cold War world. Freemantle lives and works in London, England.

From Booklist:

We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Freemantle has no peer when it comes to writing espionage thrillers. His latest book is as good as they get, with Russia and the U.S. cooperating--yes, cooperating--to track down the who, how, and why behind the bizarre, Mafia-style murder of a Russian diplomat in Washington. Dimitri Danilov, the stolid, solid Soviet cop who's having trouble coping with the "new" Russia and his own personal problems, teams up--as he did in Freemantle's earlier The Button Man (1993)--with William Cowley, semirenegade FBI investigator who has an alcohol problem on top of his tough, politically sensitive job inside the Beltway. The two find themselves globe-trotting, from Geneva to Brighton Beach to Sicily to Moscow, in hopes of unearthing the brilliantly conceived, highly complex, big-bucks-at-stake plot behind the brutal murder. Freemantle includes a mile-a-minute action, a mind-boggling story line, edge-of-your-seat suspense, subtle wit, and two heroes whose occasional feet of clay don't keep them from being superb investigators and genuinely good human beings. An absolute must for every collection. Emily Melton

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1857974018
• ISBN 13: 9781857974010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472