Chameleon

Name: Chameleon
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Mark Burnell
ISBN: 9780008302870

Author: Mark Burnell

Series: The Stephanie Fitzpatrick series #2

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Unabridged: 14 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 04/25/2019

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Espionage, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Crime, Literary Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Trust no one but yourself… The second blockbuster thriller in the Stephanie Patrick series. The previous novel, The Rhythm Section, is soon to be a major motion picture from the producers of the James Bond film series, starring Jude Law and Blake Lively. She can’t escape her past… Stephanie Patrick thought her double life was over. But a call from her past throws her back into the world where international crime and terrorism meet. The target is Koba: a Russian criminal with influential connections, whose true identity remains a dangerous secret. From New York through Europe to Moscow, Stephanie tracks Koba. But in a game of betrayal where trust is weakness and violence is routine, one false move could prove fatal…

About Mark Burnell

Mark Burnell was born in Northumberland and grew up in Brazil. He is a novelist and screenwriter. His debut novel, The Rhythm Section, is the first in a series of thrillers featuring Stephanie Patrick and the basis of a major motion picture starring Blake Lively and Jude Law and produced by Eon, the company responsible for the James Bond franchise. Mark lives in London with his family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maddy on September 15, 2013

RATING: 3.25 Chameleon: a person given to often expedient or facile change in ideas or character. The word applies perfectly to Stephanie Patrick. Only a few years earlier, she had been living life as a professional assassin by the name of “Petra Reuter”. In the intervening years, she’s transformed h......more

Goodreads review by Mary on July 31, 2019

This second book of the series had all the intrigue of a good espionage/spy novel. My problem with Burnell's books is the many, many people and places he introduces at the beginning of the book and throughout. If you can learn to pick and choose which to remember, you'll enjoy the story more. That i......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on January 26, 2017

Meh, at first the book seemed exciting and I love strong female leads. As the book went along the dialog and action became a blur of similar thoughts, words and actions. I completely lost interest and skipped ahead to finish the book. I didn't miss anything.......more

Goodreads review by Kaylol on December 09, 2010

I feel like i didn't fully grasp some of the deeper stories in the book. But it was still one hell of a good read......more

Goodreads review by John on July 31, 2018

The second in the Stephanie Patrick series: Thinking that her secret life as assassin Petra Reuter is over. Stephanie quits the super secret life and is living in southern France.; it's a peaceful life. When a British agent is murdered the secret intelligence service named Magenta House, wants Steph......more

Quotes

‘Chameleon is a Casablanca for the 21st century’ Boris Starling ‘Bigger and slicker in every way than his first novel. If you buy no other thriller this holiday season, buy this one’ The Economist ‘Utterly gripping – eat your heart out Jason Bourne’ Observer ‘Mark Burnell brings the espionage novel right up to date. Petra makes James Bond look like a wimp’ Sunday Telegraph