False trail

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours Just because football's a game, it doesn't mean you have to play fair. Scott Manson needs to leave England. His career managing London City football team is over, and it cuts deep to watch them play on without him. But finding a job in the star-studded world of international football is harder than it looks. A new position in Shanghai turns out to be part of an elaborate sting operation. And in Barcelona, he's hired not as a football manager, but as a detective. Barca's star player is missing, and they need to find him fast. Scott has a month to track him down. As he follows the trail from Paris to Antigua, he encounters corrupt men, wicked women, and the rotten core of the beautiful game... Features Summary Scott Manson's job managing London City football team is over. When he starts a new job in Barcelona, it turns out his new employers only want him for his detective skills: their star player is missing... Author Philip Kerr Publisher Head of Zeus Release date 20151105 Pages 375 ISBN 1-78497-173-1 ISBN 13 978-1-78497-173-1

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) Spring, 1919. James 'Max' Maxted, former Great War flying ace, returns to the trail of murder, treachery and half-buried secrets he set out on in The Ways of the World. He left Paris after avenging the murder of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, a senior member of the British delegation to the post-war peace conference. But he was convinced there was more - much more - to be discovered about what Sir Henry had been trying to accomplish. And he suspected elusive German spymaster Fritz Lemmer knew the truth of it. Now, enlisted under false colours in Lemmer's service but with his loyalty pledged to the British Secret Service, Max sets out on his first - and possibly last - mission for Lemmer. It takes him to the far north of Scotland - to the Orkney Isles, where the German High Seas Fleet has been impounded in Scapa Flow, its fate to be decided at the conference-table in Paris. Max has been sent to recover a document held aboard one of the German ships. What that document contains forces him to break cover sooner than he would have wished and to embark on a desperate race south, towards London, with information that could destroy Lemmer - if Max, as seems unlikely, lives to deliver it... Format:Paperback Pages:400