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Fawkes and Baxter return in the rocket-paced followup to the global bestseller RAGDOLL

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The new thriller from the bestselling author of Ragdoll

A detective with no one to trust
A killer with nothing to lose18 months after the ´Ragdoll´ murders, a body is found hanging from Brooklyn Bridge, the word ´BAIT´ carved into the chest.

In London a copycat killer strikes, branded with the word ´PUPPET´, forcing DCI Emily Baxter into an uneasy partnership with the detectives on the case, Special Agents Rouche and Curtis.

Each time they trace a suspect, the killer is one step ahead. With the body count rising on both sides of the Atlantic, can they learn to trust each other and identify who is holding the strings before it is too late?

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Cole, Daniel

At 33 years old, Daniel Cole has worked as a paramedic, an RSPCA officer and most recently for the RNLI, driven by an intrinsic need to save people or perhaps just a guilty conscience about the number of characters he kills off in his writing.

On writing his debut novel RAGDOLL, which began life as an unproduced television pilot, Daniel says: ´After five years of rejections, I had a yearning to actually finish one of my stories rather than leave it collecting dust with the others under my bed. With no formal training at all, I feel I wrote the book very selfishly, with the aim of creating something that I, personally, would love: as shocking as it is humorous, as thought-provoking as it is relentlessly entertaining, and with a cast of characters who feel like friends by the end of it.´

He currently lives in sunny Bournemouth and can usually be found down the beach when he ought to be writing book two instead.

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