The Straw Men 3-Book Thriller Collection: The Straw Men, The Lonely Dead, Blood of Angels

The Straw Men 3-Book Thriller Collection: The Straw Men, The Lonely Dead, Blood of Angels
Michael Marshall

The Straw Men. They kill people. Any people. And soon they’ll get around to you. Read all the books in the electrifying STRAW MEN trilogy by Michael Marshall.THE STRAW MENSarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live.Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator – his own daughter was one of his victims two years ago. But the key to Sarah's whereabouts lies with Ward Hopkins, a man with a past so secret not even he knows about it. His parents have just died in a car accident, but they leave Ward a very strange message that leads him to question everything he once believed to be true..THE LONELY DEADA guilty man walks alone into the cold mountain forests of Washington State, aiming never to return. What he finds there starts a chain of events that will quickly spiral out of control.Meanwhile in Los Angeles a woman's body is discovered, sitting bolt upright in a motel bedroom. She is dead, and her killer has left his mark. It soon becomes clear he has something to say, and a lot more work to do.And Ward Hopkins, an ex-CIA agent recovering from the recent shocking death of his parents, is on the trail of his past, tracking down the men who destroyed everything he once held dear, and the murderer whose face he sees every time he looks in the mirror.BLOOD OF ANGELSNotorious serial killer the Upright Man has escaped from prison, and the FBI have no idea where to look for him. His brother, Ward Hopkins, suspects he may have been aided by the Straw Men, the shadowy organization founded on murder as a way of life that killed Ward's parents.But apart from his girlfriend Nina, a discredited FBI agent, the only other person who believes the Straw Men exist is John Zandt, a former homicide cop turned lone vigilante.Ward's brother was broken out for a reason. The Straw Men are planning something new and terrible. And only Ward, Nina and John stand against the Upright Man and his terrifying allies.

MICHAEL

MARSHALL

THE STRAW MEN 3-BOOK THRILLER COLLECTION

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The Straw Men (#ua85dba3e-dcf5-5b86-bedd-83142f552591)

The Lonely Dead (#litres_trial_promo)

Blood of Angels (#litres_trial_promo)

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MICHAEL

MARSHALL

THE

STRAW

MEN

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This edition 2003

First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2002

Copyright © Michael Marshall Smith 2002

The Author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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ForJane Johnson