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The Handler
Putin’s armies occupy Eastern Ukraine . They’re 50 km from Kiev. The NATO negotiator conducting peace talks disappears. Berlin Mi6 retired British spy is recalled by Berlin Mi6 to locate him. Only the negotiator was also the agent handler of the British spy’s wife. A up-to-date spy thriller about love and betrayal.
339 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 1, 2020
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Joe Sykes
28 books2 followersJoe Sykes writes compelling contemporary fiction across a range of genres. Assassination (2022) is a high speed thriller about the statewide manhunt for the President of the United States following murders at Camp David.
In The Haven (2022), a terrifying ghost story set on a remote Scottish island, ancient spirits and men war for control of the Haven Hotel.
Dave Morton inherits a remote North-West Scottish island complete with shuttered hotel. Dave and two friends plan a huge payday: refurbishment and sale of the island and hotel as a billionaire resort. They realise the hotel has other residents of whom they only get scary glimpses. Morton learns the hotel was built on the ruins of a monastery destroyed in 1323, and the monks subsisting there spiritually are not welcoming.
The Handler is a romantic spy thriller about love , marriage and betrayal. A retired British agent is asked to locate NATO’s missing chief negotiator on the eve of war between Russia and the EU. He is forced to revisit his broken marriage. The missing negotiator was his wife’s handler and lover.
Joe’s comic entertainments include Seven Day Love Affairs and Seven Day Sex Affairs.
Crime thrillers include Joe’s sensational crime novel, The Killings (Book 1 in the DI Hawke crime thriller series), and the sex thriller Profiler (aka Killing Lovers).
Joe’s horror novels include The Haven, Invitation and The Return of the Master.
In The Haven (2022), a terrifying ghost story set on a remote Scottish island, ancient spirits and men war for control of the Haven Hotel.
Dave Morton inherits a remote North-West Scottish island complete with shuttered hotel. Dave and two friends plan a huge payday: refurbishment and sale of the island and hotel as a billionaire resort. They realise the hotel has other residents of whom they only get scary glimpses. Morton learns the hotel was built on the ruins of a monastery destroyed in 1323, and the monks subsisting there spiritually are not welcoming.
The Handler is a romantic spy thriller about love , marriage and betrayal. A retired British agent is asked to locate NATO’s missing chief negotiator on the eve of war between Russia and the EU. He is forced to revisit his broken marriage. The missing negotiator was his wife’s handler and lover.
Joe’s comic entertainments include Seven Day Love Affairs and Seven Day Sex Affairs.
Crime thrillers include Joe’s sensational crime novel, The Killings (Book 1 in the DI Hawke crime thriller series), and the sex thriller Profiler (aka Killing Lovers).
Joe’s horror novels include The Haven, Invitation and The Return of the Master.
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June 21, 2020
A romantic thriller about a retired spy coming back to a broken marriage after five years, when his wife’s lover is kidnapped and disappears. It’s set a few years in the future when the US has left NATO, and the EU and Russia have divided up Ukraine and are at the brink of another war. It’s a novel about love and betrayal and living with our choices.
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