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Backlash by Ian Coates

You’re coerced into distributing blackmail demands. One victim retaliates; now you’re running for your life. You must find the only person who can help – your blackmailer.

You’re being blackmailed. But it’s not your money they want. Instead, you’re coerced into passing the blackmailer’s demands to his more dangerous victims – those who might retaliate. And when an arms dealer decides he won’t pay, it’s you he comes after.

Young interior designer Trish McGowan’s life and career are thrown into chaos. After narrowly surviving a bomb blast that destroys her shop, she finds herself running for her life. She quickly realises tracking down the blackmailer, the mysterious Argus, and trying to get his help is the only way she’ll manage to stay alive. But an experienced criminal who wants to remain anonymous isn’t easy to find. And he might be hiding in plain sight right in front of her.

As the arms dealer’s noose closes round McGowan, she uncovers two more of Argus’ victims, and they form an uneasy alliance to stop the blackmail once and for all.

Ian Coates graduated with honours in electronics and often uses his experience of working in high-tech industries to give his thrillers an authentic backdrop. Although he followed a career in technology, his first love has always been books, particularly exciting page-turners about spies and assassins.

He won his first writing competition at the age of 14 with a crime novella. His debut thriller, Eavesdrop, was shortlisted in a Tibor Jones Page Tuner competition and was one of the winners in the centenary Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook novel writing competition. Eavesdrop was published in paperback in 2014, and Audible Studios subsequently released it as an audio book. Backlash is his second novel, which was recently the runner-up in the Writers College Global Writing Competition.

Ian lives with his wife in Worcestershire, England, and is a member of the International Thriller Writers Association and the Society of Authors. A percentage of the proceeds from his thrillers supports the British Science Association.