White King

<p><b>'As agile as a matador, Gómez-Jurado skilfully balances exhilarating thrills with the melancholy that is the price of Antonia’s gifts' – </b><i><b>The Times<br><br>"I hope you haven't forgotten me. Shall we play?"</b></i><br><br>Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind. She’s the lynchpin of a top-secret project, Red Queen, created to work across borders to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes, those that are beyond the skills of the regular police.<br><br>But the Red Queen project is under attack on all fronts. Across Europe, its agents are murdering each other, and long-resolved cases from the past are rearing their deadly heads again. At the centre of it all is the mysterious and dangerous Mr White.<br><br>Jon Gutiérrez, Antonia’s protector and the only person she trusts, has been kidnapped. With Jon’s life at stake, Mr White gives Antonia a seemingly innocuous challenge: solve three crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice.<br><br>The only way to keep Jon alive is to play Mr White’s game, but can Antonia win when she can only see part of the board?<br><br><b>The thrilling conclusion to Juan Gómez-Jurado’s internationally bestselling Antonia Scott trilogy. Translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia.<br><br>Praise for Juan Gómez-Jurado:</b><br><br>'<b>Fizzes with energy </b>and lively scene-setting . . . There are obvious <b>echoes of Lisbeth Salander</b>, but the crackling interplay between Scott and Inspector Gutiérrez, a gay Basque policeman, adds an extra layer of originality, as does Nick Caistor’s sparkling translation' <b>– <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br>'What Gómez-Jurado excels at, as conveyed in Nick Caistor’s brisk translation, is pacing of the breakneck variety. <b>Short chapters, funny asides, lethally potent descriptions: they all contribute to a frenetic page-turning momentum . . . you’ll have great fun reading it' – <i>The New York Times</i></b></p>