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A new, undefined terror is spreading across the globe. Indiscriminate, low-level acts of violence have hit all five continents - and it’s getting worse. The world’s security services are at a loss. Who is behind the upsurge in violence? Where will the next attack take place? Will it ever stop?
Sam Green, now a lowly supermarket till girl in a small town in England, is oblivious to world events. She has her own inner demons to fight and they’re consuming her every spare moment. All too soon those demons will take on human form. And then she will be faced with two choices: run or fight.
In Naples, Italy, a young Welsh student is innocently researching a link between The Mafia and the history of art. And two thousand miles away in Moscow, Russian intelligence services are struggling to contain a new terror cell that threatens nuclear catastrophe. Are all these things connected? If so, can someone force order from chaos? Sam has managed before. But now there are too many obstacles, the biggest of which are those plaguing her own mind.
This time the world might just have to rely on someone else.
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With On The Back Foot To Hell Roland Ladley continues the Sam Green saga, with its usual dose of realism and pace. There are Russian spies, a trip to the Urals, The Mafia, a global conspiracy and an antagonist who is doing things to Sam’s mind. The intelligence of the writing and attention to detail leaves the reader with absolutely certainty that what they are experiencing could be happening in their world - now. Sit back and enjoy.
In praise of the Sam Green Series:
‘I feel we have a new author who will make Fleming and Le Carre shift uneasily; Roland Ladley has mastered the art of blending convincing narrative and engaging characters into a read that satisfies and leaves you wanting another dose.’
‘Unique, compelling, surprising.’
‘Sam Green is an intriguing and relatable protagonist and her portrayal as the female lead is refreshingly different from anything I've encountered to date.’
‘I have been converted to a raging Sam Green fan!’
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About the author:
Roland Ladley’s detailed, but flowing narrative has been compared to Le Carre and Deighton; Sam Green, his ‘flawed but resolute’ protagonist, to a female Jack Reacher - ‘only more edgy and much more prone to tears.’ His second spy thriller in the Sam Green series, Fuelling the Fire, won a publishing contract with Kindle Scout and went on to become a best-seller in its genre. His other five books, Unsuspecting Hero, The Innocence of Trust, For Good Men To Do Nothing, On The Back Foot To Hell and Blood Red Earth, have been equally well reviewed in both the UK and the US.
If espionage is your bag - and you’re after realistic, up-to-date conspiracy thrillers with a strong female lead - then the Sam Green series is waiting for you.
To bring realism to his writing Roland Ladley draws upon twenty-five years military service, including complex tours of Bosnia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. Subsequent work as a teacher enables him to communicate lucidly to a wide audience, and two grown-up daughters ensures he can laugh at himself and find comic moments in his writing when the tension is at its greatest.
Now a full time writer based in Bristol, UK, he lives an itinerant lifestyle with his wife in their motorhome, posting a travel/writing blog and marketing his six Sam Green novels. With the books’ cinematic style, it’s not surprising that the first, Unsuspecting Hero, has been turned into a mini-series screenplay and is being considered by a well-known British director.
Find him via his blog: https://thewanderlings2013.wordpress.com. And follow him on Twitter or via Facebook @rolandtheauthor.
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