Deep Shelter

<p>In this gritty white-knuckle crime thriller Detective Nick Belsey--introduced in the acclaimed <em>The Hollow Man</em> as a shrewd street-smart cynic who is one of London's sharpest but most unprincipled investigators--is plunged into a perplexing mystery of secrets danger and suspense beneath the city's streets.</p><p>Trouble once again finds Nick Belsey when he takes a date to an abandoned bomb shelter buried beneath the heart of London. One minute the young woman is there and the next she's gone mysteriously vanishing into the dark labyrinth of secret tunnels. A seasoned cop with a bad reputation Nick knows that if he reports her disappearance he'll be the prime suspect. Instead he's going to find her. It's not just her life at stake--it's his too.</p><p>Determined to discover who else is down in those forgotten tunnels and how far this secret network of underground passages extends he plunges head first into the investigation--and into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a ruthless enemy who would rather let an innocent woman die than reveal old Cold War secrets hidden deep beneath the city's streets.</p><p>An edgy subversive thriller with the superb characterization of classic Lawrence Block and the psychological acuity and suspense of Sophie Hannah <em>Deep Shelter</em> is a compulsively readable mystery from a master of literary suspense.</p>