Baptism
By: by Max Kinnings
Series: Ed Mallory
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781780871783; 9781780871813
Subjects: Terrorism; Subways; Fiction
Description: 07:45am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. A young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56am. A London Underground train is stationary in a tunnel, four hundred passengers trapped inside. All efforts to communicate with it have been met with silence. 09:15am. DCI Ed Mallory has just started his day. The Met's top hostage negotiator - despite having been blinded thirteen years earlier - Mallory is about to discover that, today, an underground train is not the only thing on the line.