The Sirius Crossing (Jack Valentine #1) by Eoin McNamee writing as John Creed

The Sirius Crossing is a taut, gripping and intelligent thriller from one of Ireland's finest contemporary authors.

Jack Valentine has been in the intelligence game too long and it is starting to show, but he accepts one more mission - he always does. It seems like a simple task but it throws up deadly questions and he doesn't know the answers. What were American Special Forces doing in Ireland twenty-five years ago and why does it matter now? What is the thread which leads from a deserted mountainside to the offices of the White House?

Suddenly Valentine has information that everybody wants and he finds himself the quarry in a pitiless chase. To complicate matters he id joined by an old friend who is staying just ahead of his own deadly pursuit. And he draws an old flame into danger, because it seems that wherever Jack Valentine goes, innocence seems to suffer. Valentine no longer knows what threatens him most - the dark alliance of men who want to kill him, the terrible storm crossing he is forced to undertake in a battered, converted trawler, or his own dangerous cynicism.

Eoin McNamee is the acclaimed author of Resurrection Man and The Blue Tango. This is his first thriller writing as John Creed. McNamee lives in Co. Sligo, Ireland, with his wife and two children.