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  • Published: 9 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529158472
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

Countdown

The Sunday Times bestselling spy thriller

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Paperback
30 Apr 2024
EBook
9 Jan 2023
Audiobook
20 Mar 2023
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Intelligence officer Amy Cornwall must prove she exists before time runs out in this new heartstopper thriller - perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Patricia Cornwell.

An undercover CIA officer has seven days to save her country from the world's most dangerous double-agent.

The CIA's highly classified Special Activities Division is in the business of tracking people down and keeping secrets hidden. Then a botched field operation reveals some dark dealings between an officer's superiors and an informant, including a plot that could kill thousands of Americans.

Knowing that her leadership is corrupt to the core, intelligence officer Amy Cornwall is forced to give up her identity and work from the shadows. But it's not easy staying hidden when your enemies are elite intelligence operatives.

Will she get the truth out into the light before losing her identity, her history, her family?

The countdown has already begun.

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Readers are loving Countdown . . .

'Couldn't put the book down'
'Patterson at his best'
'MOVE OVER James Bond - Amy Caldwell is here!'
'Wow, just WOW'
'Good till the last word'
  • Published: 9 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529158472
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
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About the author

James Patterson

JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 375 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers, including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, House of Robots, Confessions, and Maximum Ride series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

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Praise for Countdown

No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades

Lee Child

The master storyteller of our times

Hillary Rodham Clinton

It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer . . . Simply put: nobody does it better

Jeffrey Deaver

Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind

Michael Connelly

A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting

The Guardian

James Patterson is The Boss. End of.

Ian Rankin