Baptism
By: Max Kinnings
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9781623651022
Subjects: Blind; People with disabilities; Terrorism; Psychopaths; 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.