'A richly told tale of tangled loyalties. French ratchets up the tension in increments . . . By
the end these characters have taken on such solidity that long after finishing it I often
catch myself wondering how they're doing - a testament to the author's mastery of her craft'
GUARDIANReturn to the dark underbelly of Ardnakelty in the thrilling new sequel to The
Searcher. -----It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They're coming for
gold. What they bring is trouble. Two years have passed since retired Police Detective Cal
Hooper moved from Chicago to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He's found it more or less
- in his relationship with local woman Lena and the bond he's formed with half-wild teenager
Trey. So when two men turn up with a money-making scheme to find gold in the townland Cal gets
ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey. Because one of the men is no stranger: he's
Trey's father. But Trey doesn't want protecting. What she wants is revenge. Crackling with
tension and slow-burn suspense The Hunter explores what we'll do for our loved ones what
we'll do for revenge and what we sacrifice when the two collide from the Sunday Times and New
York Times bestseller Tana French. ---Nobody writes tension like Tana French:'Terrific -
terrifying amazing' STEPHEN KING'One of the greats of contemporary crime fiction' IAN
RANKIN'The most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years' WASHINGTON POST'A
truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN'Among the first rank of great literary novelists' OBSERVER'A
masterful beautiful mystery...' CHRIS WHITAKER'Crime fiction's biggest contemporary star'
GUARDIAN'Completely indescribably magnificent' MARIAN KEYES'Lyrical suspenseful
unpredictable' HARLAN COBEN'Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last
decade' SARAH HILARY'A spectacularly talented writer' LOUISE O'NEILL
