📖 Blog Tour ~ The Trap by Ava Glass

 

Penguin
1 August 2024

Alias Emma #3

Thanks to the publisher for my copy of the book
and the invitation to the blog tour

Edinburgh. The 50th annual G7 Summit is being hosted by the UK, and intelligence agent Emma Makepeace, has less than a week to decode, defuse and disable a deadly threat to the leaders of the free world

The Russians are in town and Emma and her team know a high-profile assassination is being planned. But who is their target? And who is the assassin?

There is only one way to find out. Emma must set a trap using herself as bait.

From the majesty of the Scottish Highlands to Europe’s most lavish hotels, using private jets, phone taps, and her training and instincts honed by three years hunting Russian spies, Emma Makepeace must trick her way into the moneyed, champagne-fuelled playground of the super-rich in order to trap the killer.

But Emma doesn’t count on liking her target, or the fact that he might actually fall for her, and with the clock ticking and her cover wearing increasingly thin, danger looms over her. One false move and they could both be dead.

📖 My Review...

The 50th annual G7 Summit is being held in Edinburgh and Emma Makepeace and the secret intelligence organisation she works for is on high alert, especially when information reaches them that there is an assassination attempt being planned. With time running out Emma takes on one of her most challenging cases, placing herself, and others, in grave danger.

What I enjoy most about this series, and this is now the third book, is the way the author weaves together very plausible scenarios so that right from the start you get pulled into a dangerous plot which will have you on the edge of your seat. Emma Makepeace is a feisty and determined character, she doesn’t suffer fools and is rarely found relying on anyone, and yet in this story, I think we see something of a softer side to her, however, letting her guard down is never really an option.

Whilst The Trap continues the series with characters we have met before, it was good to have new people added into the mix, altering the dynamic and adding an interesting layer to this exciting thriller. The action moves really quickly, from Edinburgh, to Europe in an exciting story which hits the ground running from the very start and doesn’t let up on the action until the very last page. Leaving the story on something of a cliffhanger, I am hopeful that we will meet again with Emma Makepeace in further thrilling adventures, I can’t wait for more…😊

About the Author

The Trap follows Ava Glass’ debut spy thriller The Chase and her critically acclaimed 2023 thriller The Traitor, which was a Grazia Book of the Month, Sunday Times Book of the Year, Washington Post Book of the Year, Cosmopolitan Book of the Year, and Richard & Judy Book Club pick.

Film rights to The Chase and The Traitor have been acquired by the producers of The Night Manager, who are currently working on a pilot, now in the final stages. Next step will be casting!

One of very few women shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, the UK’s spy fiction prize, and one of the vanishingly few female authors writing about spies, Ava Glass is breaking down the door to the most male dominated genres in the English language – the espionage novel.

Ava Glass’ fiction is based on her first-hand experience working with female spies for the British government, which has seen her dubbed “the new queen of spy fiction” by The Guardian. This alongside a decade working as an investigative journalist and crime reporter in America covering homicides for publications including the New York Times and Reuters makes her writing both fresh and dangerously believable.

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The Trap by Ava Glass is published by Penguin in Paperback (£9.99)