Blood Red Earth

Download or read book Blood Red Earth written by Roland Ladley and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sam Green series enters its seventh year. Already published are five world-class novels that have built an international, age-spanning and cross-gender audience. The sixth - Blood Red Earth - aims to add to that collection, taking the reader to East Asia - from Singapore to North Korea. As always it''s a rollercoaster ride for Sam Green, with gritty, realistic storytelling breathlessly transporting the reader into Sam and her colleagues'' world. As you lose yourself in this Far Eastern adventure, the author is already looking to book seven, a story of eugenics and mid-East intrigue. That book will be available in July 2021. Blood Red Earth There''s trouble brewing in East Asia. The Korean peninsula is heading for peaceful reconciliation, and not everyone wants that. Wider still, the communist old guard in China, Vietnam and Cuba is losing its grip - and that can''t be allowed to happen. Sam Green''s former Secret Intelligence Service boss, Jane Baker, was on the case. But she''s disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Back in London, an MI5 officer uncovers a potential conspiracy at the highest levels of the UK''s intelligence services - but who can he turn to? Meanwhile the CIA has just lost their latest North Korean defector in Croatia, and soon they''re going to lose a whole lot more. Could this all be linked? Unaware of these events, Sam''s restless. She''s just about recovered from her terrible ordeal in Switzerland and needs to spread her wings. Jane was last seen in Cambodia and that''s a good enough start point for Sam. Little does she know her latest journey will literally place her on board a train to destruction. And this time she may well lose more than she ever knew she cared about. ++++++ In praise of the Sam Green Series: ''I feel we have a new author who will make Fleming and Le Carre shift uneasily; Roland Ladley has mastered the art of blending convincing narrative and engaging characters into a read that satisfies and leaves you wanting another dose.'' ''Unique, compelling, surprising.'' ''Sam Green is an intriguing and relatable protagonist and her portrayal as the female lead is refreshingly different from anything I''ve encountered to date.'' ''I have been converted to a raging Sam Green fan!'' ++++++ About the author: Roland Ladley''s detailed, but flowing narrative has been compared to Le Carre and Deighton; Sam Green, his ''flawed but resolute'' protagonist, to a female Jack Reacher - ''only more edgy and much more prone to tears.'' His second spy thriller in the Sam Green series, Fuelling the Fire, won a publishing contract with Kindle Scout and went on to become a best-seller in its genre. His other four books, Unsuspecting Hero, The Innocence of Trust, For Good Men To Do Nothing and On The Back Foot To Hell have been equally well reviewed in both the UK and the US. If espionage is your bag - and you''re after realistic, up-to-date conspiracy thrillers with a strong female lead - the Sam Green series is waiting for you. To bring realism to his writing Roland Ladley draws upon twenty-five years military service, including complex tours of Bosnia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. Subsequent work as a teacher enables him to communicate lucidly to a wide audience, and two grown-up daughters ensures he can laugh at himself and find comic moments in his writing when the tension is at its greatest. Now a full time writer based in Bristol, UK, he lives an itinerant lifestyle with his wife in their motorhome, posting a travel/writing blog and marketing his five Sam Green novels. With the books'' cinematic style, it''s not surprising that the first, Unsuspecting Hero, has been turned into a mini-series screenplay and is being considered by a well-known British director. Find him here: https://thewanderlings2013.wordpress.com, find his Facebook page, Instagram and Twitter account @rolandtheauthor.