Even

by Andrew Grant

ebook

Published June 1, 2010

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Andrew Grant (born 1968, Birmingham, England) is the younger brother of bestselling thriller writer Lee Child. After graduating from the University of Sheffield, where he studied Drama and English Literature, Grant founded a theatre company that produced original material, culminating with a critically successful appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Grant remained in Sheffield after graduating from university but now lives with his wife, the novelist Tasha Alexander, on a nature preserve in Wyoming.

Series:
* David Trevellyan

Reviews

[Chromatic Cat]

This is my first Andrew Grant read and it was a good yarn, plenty of action..
British Intelligence Officer David Trevellyan is walking through the streets of New York back to his hotel after leaving a restaurant, just minding his own business, until he finds a dead body, then all hell breaks loose, he gets arrested for murder…The NYPD and the FBI don’t trust or like him, and trouble follows Trevellyan around like a bad smell…it’s non stop action it’s brutal, but to Trevellyan it’s just another day in the office, it’s a page turner.

[Lyn]

𝐻𝑖,
𝐼'𝑚 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 3 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘. 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝐴𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘.

𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘, 𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝐶, 𝑎𝑘𝑎 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑦𝑎𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒—𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝐼 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦'𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠. 𝐼 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛, 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝐶'𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑛, ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑣 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛—𝐼'𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑦. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜. 𝐵𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑠, ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠, ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑦—𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠—𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼'𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑖𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒.

𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡—𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼'𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝐵𝐼. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝐼'𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝐿𝑒𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑜𝑢𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑒𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑦'𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒'𝑠. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑂 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑓ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑓 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑦𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑎𝑘𝑎 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑟𝑒—𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙— 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 '𝐷𝑖𝑒 𝑇𝑤𝑖𝑐𝑒' 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝐿𝑒𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒'𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑇𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑎'𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ. 𝑁𝑜𝑤, 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼𝑚 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑇𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑡. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝐼𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒.

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