The Names of the Dead, Kevin Wignall
The Names of the Dead, Kevin Wignall
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The Names of the Dead

Author: Kevin Wignall

Narrator: Michael Braun

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2020

Synopsis

They locked him up. Now he’s out—for revenge.Former CIA officer James ‘Wes’ Wesley paid the ultimate price for his patriotism when he was locked up in a French jail for an anti-terror operation gone wrong—abandoned by the Agency he served, shunned by his colleagues and friends, cut off from his family.Now he is shattered by the news that his ex-wife, Rachel, a State Department analyst, has been killed in a terrorist attack in Spain. He also discovers that his young son, Ethan, is missing. But Wes didn’t know he had a son—until now.Why was Rachel in Spain? And why did she keep his son secret from him?Granted early release, Wes takes flight across Europe to search for the truth and exact his revenge. But can he catch the spies who betrayed him before they track him down? In order to find the answers and save his son, Wes realises he must confront the dark secrets in his own past—before it’s too late.

About Kevin Wignall

Kevin Wignall is a British writer, born in Brussels in 1967. He spent many years as an army child in different parts of Europe and went on to study politics and international relations at Lancaster University. He became a full-time writer after the publication of his first book, People Die (2001). His other novels are Among the Dead (2002); Who is Conrad Hirst? (2007), shortlisted for the Edgar Award and the Barry Award; Dark Flag (2010); The Hunter’s Prayer (2015, originally titled For the Dogs in the USA), which was made into a film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Sam Worthington and Odeya Rush; A Death in Sweden (2016); The Traitor’s Story (2016); and A Fragile Thing (2017); and To Die in Vienna (2018).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee

A bomb goes off in a small courtyard in Granada killing several people, including Rachel Richards. James Wesley - Wes, ex-CIA is in prison in France for shooting down ‘the wrong helicopter’ but he’s been set up by fellow CIA agent and former friend Sam Garvey. Rachel is Wes’s ex wife. Their son Etha......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘

Q: ... I’m just a normal person.” “I’m not sure I believe that.” “Well, Dr. Leclerc, your beliefs are among the many things over which I currently have absolutely no control.” (c) Q: “A history of the Qing Dynasty?” “Yeah. I’m not sure why it interests me—maybe it’s all the plotting and intrigue, betrayal......more

Goodreads review by Christi

An espionage revenge story spanning from prison in France to several European countries. The book starts with an explosion in Granada that kills several people, including Wes’s ex-wife Rachel. Wes is in a French prison that holds war criminals when he learns of her death, but also that the son he di......more

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