Spy Hunt: Mick Grundy Book 1

by Alexander Francis

An unusual murder in San Francisco puzzles the SFPD. As the police start to piece together the facts, they become convinced that international spies are involved. Mick Grundy's story unfolds, starting with his exploits with the CIA in an ill-fated mission in the Crimea. He becomes the hunted, and is nearly killed. Mick seeks revenge and is ruthless and savage when he finds a terrorist cell about to do mayhem to innocent civilians. The story returns to San Francisco where Mick becomes the hunter.

348 pages, Paperback

First published March 8, 2015

About the author

Alexander Francis is the author of thirteen novels spanning psychological suspense, spy thrillers, literary fiction, time travel, and romance, each one written in a distinct voice, each one shaped by the same belief: that fiction should make you feel something you were not expecting to feel.

Two of his novels, Beware the Exit and Memory Gap, were born from dreams. He woke, wrote down what remained, and built full novels from those fragments. The result, in both cases, is fiction with the logic and texture of a waking dream: internally consistent, emotionally real, and deeply strange.

His Mick Grundy trilogy, Spy Hunt, The Russian Connection, and Elapid — follows a single unforgettable protagonist through three standalone spy thrillers. Readers have compared Mick Grundy to Jason Bourne and Denzel Washington's character in The Equalizer, and one reader bought the trilogy twice: once to keep, and once to donate to his local library so strangers could find it.

His work has been described as impossible to categorize: one reader compared him to Stravinsky, too original for the existing categories to contain. His books are available in ebook, paperback, large print, and audiobook formats, and are distributed internationally.

His biggest thrill, still, is hearing from a reader who enjoyed one of his books.