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High adventure, mind–blowing suspense. Tom Kirk, the world’s greatest art thief, is back on another life–threatening mission. In London, an Auschwitz survivor is murdered in his hospital bed, his killers making off with a macabre trophy – his severed left arm. In Fort Mead, Maryland, a vicious gang breaks into the NSA museum and steals a World War II Enigma machine, lynching the guard who happens to cross their path. Meanwhile, in Prague, a frenzied and mindless anti-Semitic attack on a synagogue culminates in the theft of a seemingly worthless painting by a little known Czech artist called Karel Bellak. A year has passed since Tom Kirk, the world's greatest art thief, decided to put his criminal past behind him and embark on a new career, on the right side of the law . Then three major thefts occur, and suddenly Tom is confronted with a deadly mystery and a sinister face from the past.

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Praise for 'The Black Sun' 'The Black Sun is pure unadulterated fun' USA Today 'A pacey well-constructed thriller with plenty of surprises and action' What's on London 'A story that harks back to the Nazis, Hitler, and a legendary treasure. What more could you want? If there's a better thriller this year I would like to see it' Jack Higgins, author of 'Without Mercy' and 'The Eagle Has Landed'. 'Dan Brown eat your heart out.' Northern Echo 'A thrilling read' Cork Evening Echo Praise for 'The Double Eagle.' 'A carefully constructed tale straight out of the Dan Brown mould of thriller writing.' Sunday Sun The Double Eagle will leave you breathless, but never dizzy. Solid debut world.' Ladsmag 'This would make the perfect Tom Cruise movie.' The Independent on Sunday 'A captivating, engrossing debut...a fast-paced tale of international crime and skullduggery written with style and panache. Twining is a worthy successor to Forsyth, Follett, and Higgins. Highly recommended.' Christoper Reich

Praise for 'The Black Sun' 'The Black Sun is pure unadulterated fun' USA Today 'A pacey well--constructed thriller with plenty of surprises and action' What's on London 'A story that harks back to the Nazis, Hitler, and a legendary treasure. What more could you want? If there's a better thriller this year I would like to see it' Jack Higgins, author of 'Without Mercy' and 'The Eagle Has Landed'. 'Dan Brown eat your heart out.' Northern Echo 'A thrilling read' Cork Evening Echo Praise for 'The Double Eagle.' 'A carefully constructed tale straight out of the Dan Brown mould of thriller writing.' Sunday Sun The Double Eagle will leave you breathless, but never dizzy. Solid debut world.' Ladsmag 'This would make the perfect Tom Cruise movie.' The Independent on Sunday 'A captivating, engrossing debut!a fast-paced tale of international crime and skullduggery written with style and panache. Twining is a worthy successor to Forsyth, Follett, and Higgins. Highly recommended.' Christoper Reich

Praise for 'The Black Sun' 'A story that harks back to the Nazis, Hitler, and a legendary treasure. What more could you want? If there's a better thriller this year I would like to see it' Jack Higgins, author of 'Without Mercy' and 'The Eagle Has Landed'. 'Dan Brown eat your heart out.' Northern Echo 'A thrilling read' Cork Evening Echo Praise for 'The Double Eagle.' 'A carefully constructed tale straight out of the Dan Brown mould of thriller writing.' Sunday Sun ""The Double Eagle"" will leave you breathless, but never dizzy. Solid debut world.' Ladsmag 'This would make the perfect Tom Cruise movie.' The Independent on Sunday 'A captivating, engrossing debut!a fast-paced tale of international crime and skullduggery written with style and panache. Twining is a worthy successor to Forsyth, Follett, and Higgins. Highly recommended.' Christoper Reich

You got your neo-Nazis, your hidden treasure, your frenetic action scenes, your life-or-death, fate-of-the-nation issues . . . but it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that rooting interest.Back for a second go-round is high-end art thief Tom Kirk, as woefully wooden as he was in his debut (The Double Eagle, 2005). Maybe more so, inasmuch as he's reformed-rectitude, unfortunately, seldom counting for much in the charisma department. Approached by British Intelligence, Kirk learns of two related unsettling developments: (1) A Nazi derivative called Kristall Blade (derived in turn from Kristallnacht) has become virulently operational, and (2) the group has some kind of collusive relationship with Kirk's erstwhile best friend, transmogrified through betrayal into his bitterest enemy. MI6 is asking for Kirk's help, Agent Turnbull makes clear, with nothing tangible to offer in return, hoping instead to persuade him that Kristall Blade is not merely heinous but a dire threat to the nation's stability. True enough, Agent Turnbull knows his man; still, it's the name Henry Julius Renwick that really gets Kirk's attention. And so he signs on, and before long is deeply involved in trying to determine how a seemingly humdrum painting connects to the mutilation and murder of a Holocaust survivor, connects to an elite Nazi secret society, connects to an American backwoods cult, connects to the gorgeous and storied Amber Room (commissioned by Frederick the Great as a gift for Catherine the Great), connects to a pair of decades-old trains in an abandoned Austrian copper mine. And how all of this connects to Henry (Judas) Renwick, Kirk's bete noir, a man with as charmed a life as Holmes's Moriarty-to whom, at a pivotal moment, bested and beleaguered, he gets to utter ( through clenched teeth ) that sturdy hack fiction line: This isn't over, Harry. Frenetic action scenes do not a thriller make. (Kirkus Reviews)

Praise for 'The Black Sun' 'The Black Sun is pure unadulterated fun' USA Today 'A pacey well--constructed thriller with plenty of surprises and action' What's on London 'A story that harks back to the Nazis, Hitler, and a legendary treasure. What more could you want? If there's a better thriller this year I would like to see it' Jack Higgins, author of 'Without Mercy' and 'The Eagle Has Landed'. 'Dan Brown eat your heart out.' Northern Echo 'A thrilling read' Cork Evening Echo Praise for 'The Double Eagle.' 'A carefully constructed tale straight out of the Dan Brown mould of thriller writing.' Sunday Sun The Double Eagle will leave you breathless, but never dizzy. Solid debut world.' Ladsmag 'This would make the perfect Tom Cruise movie.' The Independent on Sunday 'A captivating, engrossing debut!a fast-paced tale of international crime and skullduggery written with style and panache. Twining is a worthy successor to Forsyth, Follett, and Higgins. Highly recommended.' Christoper Reich

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James Twining was born in London but spent much of his childhood in Paris. After graduating from Oxford University with a first class degree in French Literature, he worked in Investment Banking for four years before leaving to set up his own company which he then sold three years later, having been named as one of the eight ""Best of Young British"" Entrepreneurs in The New Statesman magazine. James lives in London with his wife and baby daughter.

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