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Red Scorpion
  • Published: 9 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781473587052
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

Red Scorpion

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Tr. Paperback
28 Apr 2026
EBook
9 Apr 2026
Audiobook
9 Apr 2026
Hardback
6 May 2026
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Set within the gritty world of Colombian drug cartels, Tom Bradby's new standalone depicts the dark underbelly of the crime world with his signature atmospheric plotting his readers have come to love.

Rafa Fernandez was always crystal clear about one thing; hell would freeze over before he was dragged into the dirty business that made his father one of the richest and most powerful criminal bosses in the world. But now his father is dead, hell has indeed frozen over and, whether he likes it or not, his father's billions are his.

Unfortunately, the old man's rivals have an eye not just on the drugs' business but the other assets too. Soon his family is under threat: his sister has been kidnapped, and his wife and son living in fear. If they, and he, are to survive, he must become the master of his father's world.

Dr Laura Strong also has dark secrets - some crippling gambling debts accumulated trying to care for her disabled brother. When Rafa offers her the chance to transform her finances by caring for his own son, she has no choice but to say yes, particularly when agents from the National Crime Agency urge her to take the job - and inform on her new boss.

As a reluctant drug dealer and a damaged doctor are pushed together by an increasingly brutal series of events, the question is simple; can either of them survive? And, if so, how?
  • Published: 9 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781473587052
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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About the author

Tom Bradby

TOM BRADBY is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He has written ten previous novels, including top-ten bestselling Secret Service, which has been adapted for television by ITV. The Master of Rain was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year, and both The White Russian and The God of Chaos for the CWA Historical Crime Novel of the Year. He adapted his first novel, Shadow Dancer, into a film, the script for which was nominated for Screenplay of the Year in the Evening Standard Film Awards. As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of ITV's News at Ten. In his first year in the job he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society. He has been with ITN for thirty years and was successively Ireland Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Asia Correspondent (during which time he was shot and seriously injured whilst Covering a riot in Jakarta), Royal Correspondent, UK Editor and Political Editor- a job he held for a decade - before being made the Anchor of News at Ten in 2015.
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Also by Tom Bradby

Double Agent
Secret Service
Triple Cross
The God Of Chaos
Blood Money
Yesterday's Spy
Shadow Dancer
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Praise for Red Scorpion

Atmospheric, informative and flawlessly plotted.

The Sunday Times

Praise for Tom Bradby

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Bradby has the talent of a reporter but the heart of a storyteller.

Daily Mail

Quite exceptional...Tom Bradby succeeds in creating real characters. Far too many novels take refuge in cliché and caricature - Bradby refuses to.

Daily Telegraph

A propulsive thriller

Irish Independent

A tense, fast-paced thriller about moral compromise

i PAPER

Tom Bradby has created a magnificent woman in Dr Laura Strong. [A] powerfully entertaining novel.

Literary Review

A world of paranoia, suspicion and feuding narcos... An effective mix of mayhem, suspense, romance, globetrotting and moral dilemmas.

The Times