White king

Juan Gómez-Jurado

Book - 2025

"Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. She's the lynchpin of a top-secret project, Red Queen, created to work across borders and behind the scenes to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes, those that are beyond the skills of the regular police forces. But the Red Queen project is under attack on all fronts. Across Europe, its agents are murdering each other and cases from the past, long believed resolved, are rearing their deadly heads again. At the center of it is the mysterious Mr. White, who has been weaving a web around Antonia for a very long time. He is as smart and capable as her but, unlike her, he's a psychotic killer wh...o has isolated Antonia Scott. Jon Gutierrez, Antonia's protector and the only person she trusts, has been kidnapped. Antonia's husband has been killed and her remaining family is in hiding. With Jon's life at stake, Mr. White gives her a seemingly innocuous challenge: solve three crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. The only way to keep Jon alive is to play Mr. White's game, but can even Antonia win a game when she can only see part of the board?"--

Saved in:
1 copy ordered
Subjects
Genres
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels
Romans
Published
New York : Minotaur Books 2025.
Language
English
Spanish
Main Author
Juan Gómez-Jurado (author)
Other Authors
Nick Caistor (translator), Lorenza Garcia
Edition
First U.S. edition
Item Description
"Originally published in Spain as Rey blanco by Ediciones B"--Title page verso.
Physical Description
pages cm
ISBN
9781250853714
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Gómez-Jurado pulls out all the stops in the thrilling conclusion to his Antonia Scott trilogy (after Black Wolf). Scott's exceptional intellect landed her a spot on the covert Red Queen Project, which pairs extraordinary operatives with members of European law enforcement who also act as their bodyguards. After Scott's partner, Spanish Police Insp. Jon Gutiérrez, is abducted, her handler tells her that members of the Red Queen program have been killed across Europe. As Scott worries she might be the next to die, her nemesis, Mr. White, takes credit for kidnapping Gutiérrez and offers Scott a deal: if she solves three murders on a tight deadline, including one that ended in a wrongful conviction several years earlier, Gutiérrez will be returned to her unharmed. Gómez-Jurado successfully raises the stakes at every turn without tipping the narrative into absurdity, delivering a pulse-pounding adventure that also manages to tie up the previous novels' loose ends. It's a fitting finale. (Mar.)

(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved