{"product_id":"2940153167343","title":"The Fanatics (The Commander Allan Dice Books, #1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Fanatics (A Political Hostage Thriller)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A really good thriller writer…'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA terrorist unit brings sudden death to London.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey have instructions to assassinate the two leaders of the new radical CDP (Christian Democrat Party).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter gunning down one CDP leader in his Westminster flat, the pair set off to execute the other but the appearance of the police forces the pair to avoid capture by seizing the Reverend Paul Carpenter and his secretary, and barricading themselves into Carpenter's flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tension mounts during the siege as the terrorists, manifestly without scruples, remain oddly calm, while Commander Allan Dice, an aloof, private man with strong principles, who is in charge of the police operation is all too aware of the appalling threat to the hostages' lives and the need to maintain a ruthless pressure of doubt in the terrorists' minds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd beyond the immediate siege with its vast deployment of police resources there are frenzied repercussions in the corridors of Whitehall and the Kremlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe violent and unforeseen climax tests all of Dice's and the hostages' courage and moral strength.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fanatics\u003c\/em\u003e is the first of the \u003cstrong\u003eCommander Allan Dice\u003c\/strong\u003e books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePress comment on the second of the Commander Allan Dice books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, The Washermen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Zippy, intricate Chinese puzzle laid out with high laconic skill … \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Intricate and skilful…Hill is more than a find.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Peter Hill has done it again—a fast-moving, action-packed thriller involving the secret service, the police and underworld criminals.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCoventry Evening Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Hill is an author and playwright who regularly wrote for many top-rated British television series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a novelist he wrote the highly successful \u003cstrong\u003eStaunton and Wyndsor Series\u003c\/strong\u003e of British police detective novels, \u003cem\u003eThe Hunters, The\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eLiars, The Enthusiast\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Savages\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are set in various locations in Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese books were previously published internationally by major publishing houses and are now available as eBooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePress comments on the author's other books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'To follow… the brilliantly inspired tracking of Hill's two detectives is a joy apart from the brainteasing pleasure of accepting the author's challenge to identify the murderer.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLondon Evening News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Exceptionally well told, with satisfying outcome.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eColumbus Sunday Dispatch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Lies, gossip,and jealousy... fail to deter two of Scotland Yard's finest in this entertaining mystery with an extra twist or two ...or three.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePittsburgh Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Peter Hill does a fine job with character, plot, atmosphere and suspense.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'… a pair of attractive investigators—the young and aristocratic Leo Wyndsor and the slow-moving but smart veteran Bob Staunton. ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I'd like to see Messrs. 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