Product Description

An unputdownable race-against-time thrilller from the rising star of British crime-writing

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1533 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-21
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 464 pages

Synopsis
John Meron, a happily married father of two who's never been in trouble, receives a phone call that will change his life for ever: his friend Jack Calley, a high-flying City lawyer, is screaming down the phone for help. As Meron listens, Calley is murdered. His last words, spoken to his killer, are the first two lines of Meron's address. Confused and terrified, Meron scoops up his children and hurries out of the house. Just in time. Within minutes, a car pulls up outside, and three men get out. It's clear that they're coming for him. He's being hunted and has no idea why. And with his wife missing, an unidentified corpse in her office, and the police after him for murder, his life's about to get one hell of a lot worse.

From the Inside Flap
There's only one truth left in your world. They want you.
And they want you dead.

Tom Meron, a happily married father of two who's never been in trouble, receives a phone call that will change his life for ever: his friend Jack Calley, a high-flying City lawyer, is screaming down the phone for help. As Meron listens, Calley is murdered. His last words, spoken to his killer, are the first two lines of Meron's address.

Confused and terrified, Meron scoops up his children and hurries out of the house.

Within minutes, a car pulls up outside, and three men get out. It's clear that they're coming for him. He's being hunted and has no idea why.

And with his wife missing, an unidentified corpse in her office, and the police after him for murder, Meron's life's about to get one hell of a lot worse.

Relentless - a novel so gripping and compulsive that it demands to be read in a single sitting. Don't expect to put it down unscathed.

From the Back Cover
3 o'clock. It's a normal Saturday afternoon. You're with the kids in the garden when the phone rings.

It's your best friend from school, the best man at your wedding. Someone you haven't seen for a few years. It should be a friendly call making arrangements to see each other again, catching up on old times.

But it's not.

This call is different. Your friend is speaking quickly, panting with fear, his breaths coming in tortured, ragged gasps. It is clear that someone is inflicting terrible pain on him.

He cries out and then utters six words that will change your life forever…the first two lines of your address.

What do you do?Do you run or do you hide?

RELENTLESS

`The pace is breakneck, the plot twists like a hooked eel … The sort of book that forces you to read so fastyou stumble over the words' Evening Standard

Customer Reviews

Preposterous and way over-rated
Suffice to say I don't know how this guy gets such rave reviews. He has gone on record (W'tones' book quarterly) as saying he is the only writer in Britain doing the "one man against the rest" sort of book that Harlan Coben and Robert Crais do so well. Well pardon me for peeing on your bonfire but you're not a patch on those guys. Go back to your procedurals, at least I got past the first chapter on those.

Relentlessly boring
Very disapointing. I was really looking forward to reading after seeing the exciting extract but it was terrible. In the hands of a more accomplished writer the plot could have been turned into a reasonable story but the writing was very amaturish, I could have done a better job myself. I couldn't warm to any of the characters, the story was disjointed and haphazard. The only reason I struggled to finish it was because I thought it must have a good ending, but I was sadly disapointed by this also. After reading the likes of Rankin and Rendall, this book is very insignificant, if I were the writer I would find another job.

Violent crime
I would possibly not have chosen to read this, but it was a Richard and Judy Summer Read last year and I do usually like to try their recommendations. Also my husband has read it and thought I might enjoy it! Well he was wrong; although I sometimes enjoy a thriller it is far from my favourite genre this was not even particularly thrilling in the sense that it was a good adventure. Far from it, this was just a novel about violent crime.
One weekend Tom and Kathy Meron's world is turned upside down when Tom receives a phone call from an old friend Jack Calley. They are drawn into a web of crime and the fast paced and horrendously violent action takes place over just two days and an epilogue three weeks later. The story is narrated either by Tom or by DI Mike Bolt a detective from the National Crime squad.
Although I was just about interested enough to find out what happened to finish the book, I found the violence altogether distasteful. There are some unpleasant characters in this story and one particularly nasty example of humanity known by the name of Lench.
I understand that Simon Kernick's research for his novels is always very extensive and they are considered to be very authentic. I know the world is a cruel and violent place but this is authenticity I personally can do without, so I doubt I will be reading any more of this authors work which in some circles are obviously considered realistic crime novels.