S Clark Garnett

A Blackwater Rising S Clark Garnett

This is the story of an ordinary young man in extraordinary circumstances. When Matt Peake discovered the network had been compromised he knew it was serious, but he never imagined it would turn his life upside down. Within days his flat had been ransacked, he had lost his job, a close friend was found hanged, and he was on the run both from the police who suspected him of murder, and a squad of Blackwater assassins trying to kill him. Keeping one step ahead of his ruthless pursuers, Matt and his beloved dog Wellington flee to the tranquil countryside surrounding the River Wye. There, he struggles to untangle the international conspiracy into which he has unwittingly stumbled. Murder and mayhem are never far behind him. Matt's adventure reaches a climax with a shoot-out in the city of London. But all this begins thousands of miles away in Argentina and in a secret meeting of the Blackwater Council deep in the heart of the Vatican in Rome...