No Time for Heroes

Cowley and Danilov #2

by Brian Freemantle

A diplomat’s murder reunites Cowley and Danilov in a global search for the killer   There’s nothing surprising about the body. The wounds are precise, their meaning clear. The Washington, DC, cops have seen enough like them to know that they mean a mob hit. And when mobsters kill their own, there’s not much the police can do about it. They’re prepared to dismiss the case when someone looks at the dead man’s ID. He was Russian—and a diplomat. William Cowley, the head of the FBI’s Russian office, takes on the case. A year earlier he had solved a strange killing with the help of Dimitri Danilov, a Russian cop with a sense of honor rare in the lawless, post-Communist world. Now they rejoin forces, embarking on an around-the-world search for the meaning of the diplomat’s death. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.No Time for Heroes is the second book in the Cowley and Danilov Thrillers, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Genres: Mystery, Audiobook, Spy Thriller, Fiction, Espionage, Thriller

474 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Aka John Maxwell, Jonathan Evans, Jack Winchester, Harry Asher and Richard Gant.

Brian Freemantle [b. 1936] is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. Charlie M (1977) introduced the world to Charlie Muffin and won Freemantle international recognition—he would go on to publish fourteen titles in the series.

Freemantle has written dozens of other novels, including two featuring Sebastian Holmes, an illegitimate son of Sherlock Holmes, and the Cowley and Danilov series, about an American FBI agent and a Russian militia detective who work together to comabt organized crime in the post-Cold War world. Freemantle lives and works in London, Englad.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Freemantle proves again that he is a masterful storyteller, weaving a complex tale of intruige and murder. In Button Man Freemantle began with an American diplomat murdered in Russia, now with No Time For Heroes we have a Russian diplomat murdered in America. And, as in the first book in the series, this murder will soon bring together the Americans and Russians in a joint investigation that will involve a lot more than just a murder or two. This was one of those books that robbed me of precious sleep, and I did not care! I just had to find out what was going to be uncovered on the next page and the pages after that. Again a great book that should not be missed.

[Ruth · Rating 2 out of 5]

27. I like this authors writing style and plotting. I felt this book got a little bogged down around the half way to three quarters of the way through but it picked up in pace and came to a satisfying and unexpected conclusion.

[Cece · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very long audiobook and I lost interest in many of the characters names...

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