Fire on the Runway

Regular price €17.99
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
A01=Mel Bradshaw
airfield
attempted assassination
Author_Mel Bradshaw
belief
betrayal
bomb
capsule
Category=FFH
communism
concussion
Curtiss Canuck
cyanide
daring escape
eq_bestseller
eq_crime
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
espionage
firearms
flying
Germany
illicit rearmament
Leaside
Lucy Grudzinska
mystery
new war
nineteen twenties
Paul Shenstone
photographic evidence
police detective
Polish seductress
Prohibition
relentless pursuit
resourceful heroine
romance
secret
secret service
service
Soviet Russia
stolen passport
threat
Toronto
warplanes
world peace

Product details

  • ISBN 9781459703353
  • Weight: 283g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Jul 2013
  • Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Paperback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns

From one grenade exploding in 1920s Toronto to the seeds of a new war in Europe …

As Torontonians move to the beat of the Jazz Age, war is the furthest thing from their minds. Then a fatal grenade explosion outside a west end hotel room breaks the rhythm. The room’s registered occupant, a mysterious European woman calling herself Lucy, disappears before she can shed any light on the incident.

Police detective Paul Shenstone believes someone is trying to assassinate Lucy. Once he has found her, he will learn the reason: she has uncovered dangerous secrets that threaten world peace. Shenstone must protect Lucy and pursue her attackers. At the same time, his own experience as an infantry officer in Flanders compels him to go beyond his police function. He feels he must help Lucy get her message to the corridors of power, so that a new war may be prevented.

Mel Bradshaw studied English and philosophy at the University of Toronto and continued at Oxford. His first novel, Death in the Age of Steam, was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for best first crime novel. He lives in Toronto.

More from this author