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Fiction, Crime & Thrillers

Scorpion

Christian Cantrell (author)

Paperback Published on: 14/04/2022

£16.99

18 reviews

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In the end, what would you do to protect the future

CIA analyst Quinn Mitchell leaves the safety of her desk job and is tasked to track down a brutal, global serial killer who marks his targets with four num... READ MORE

Sharon at Maidstone

A Fast Paced Tech Thriller Where A Data Analyst Is Called In To Help Solve A String Of International Murders

Set in a future where AI and technology are far more advanced, a CIA data analyst is asked to help find a killer, or team of killers that use different met... READ MORE

Nicole @hemelwstones at Hemel Hempstead

Synopsis

THE GRIPPING CAT-AND-MOUSE THRILLER, PERFECT FOR FANS OF MINORITY REPORT AND BLAKE CROUCH

'Will have you on the edge of your seat' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'An mind-blowing speculative techno thriller with a killer twist!' DIANE JEFFREY
'Mind-bendingly cunning'FINANCIAL TIMES
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All over the world, random people are being brutally assassinated.

Each death is unique, but they all have one thing in common: four numbers branded or carved into the victims' flesh.

What does it mean?

For the brilliant and haunted CIA analyst Quinn Mitchell, it means leaving a safe and predictable desk job as she tries to track down a global serial killer.

What she doesn't know is that nothing about this mission - her handlers, the intelligence, even the laws of cause and effect - can be trusted.

And her target has saved his most shocking murder for last . . .
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'A fast-paced near future thriller that will mess with your head' JAMES OSWALD

'This stunning debut thriller will have you on the edge of your seat' SUNDAY EXPRESS

'A cat-and-mouse, edge-of-your-seat, mind-blowing speculative techno thriller with a killer twist!' DIANE JEFFREY

Publisher information

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781405939683
Number of pages: 400
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm
Weight: 278g
Languages: English

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Read at warp speed and you may have a chance...

What a novel! The writing is slick and clean and the plot moves along at a wicked pace. A huge, expansive story of time and travel and tinkering, yet, my s... READ MORE

Keely

Different and clever

I found myself conflicted about the book. I found the long descriptions of the technical issues tedious - not my thing - but I felt that the story was diff... READ MORE

Jane Mallinson

Sci Fi Spy thriller

Quinn is an analyst working on back data from the Large Hadron Collider. Her life is in ruins - a daughter dead and marriage failed. She is recruited t... READ MORE

Aidan Dunn

A confusing conclusion

Scorpion is a techno-thriller set in the near future. I really enjoyed how close to home the futuristic elements to this book were - it didn’t feel like ‘s... READ MORE

KindigBlog

Oh dear!

Oh dear. The publishers of this book invited me to read it. They thought I might enjoy it based on my previous reviews. I’m sure I’ve said more than onc... READ MORE

Carole Kendal

A Very Confusing Read

This book is a thriller with a lot of tecno jargon some of which I didn't understand nor was interested .This is a sci fi thriller set in the future ,I li... READ MORE

Chrissie Mortimer

Science based but believeable

I have not read this author before and struggled at first to get in to the story. Then it grabbed me and I could not put it down. No spoilers and rereading... READ MORE

Helen Wilkinson

Really good story!

4.5* Scorpion by Christian Cantrell has everything that I love in books: - a very smart scientist/analyst - techy world on a boundary of sci-fi - serial k... READ MORE

Ania Kierczynska

A futuristic, techno thriller

Scorpion was a mind-blowing read. A futuristic, techno thriller had me questioning and admiring the mind of Cantrell. The intricate details of both the plo... READ MORE

Gemma @TheBookCosy

Hard To Read But One Or Two Superb Bits

I found this a very hard and difficult book to read. Never relaxing as you are bombarded with sci-fi terminology and long text not speech paragraphs. I h... READ MORE

John Shaw

A unique cat and mouse thriller

I love a cat and mouse thriller that is fast pacing and I just want to devour the whole book right away. This was brilliant and I can see it being turned i... READ MORE

Hannah Symonds

A superbly entertaining mind-bending sci-fi thriller.

We know what we are, but not yet what we may be. (Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Act 4, scene 5.) Ophelia is going through a crisis in Shakespeare’s pla... READ MORE

James McShane

An intelligent, complex SF action thriller set in the near future

My thanks to Penguin Michael Joseph U.K. for an eARC via NetGalley of ‘Scorpion’ by Christian Cantrell in exchange for an honest review. This was a scien... READ MORE

Vivienne O'Regan

Techy adventure

22 people around the world have been murdered. No obvious links, all in different circumstances. Only one thing leads the CIA to believe it is at the hands... READ MORE

JENNIFER Barry

A good premise

This is a techno thriller with liberal sprinklings of science, especially physics and it’s most certainly jargon driven. The storyline has multiple threads... READ MORE

Celia Short

Intriguing cat and mouse thriller

I never usually read Sci Fi, but I found this fascinating. I’m also only into basic technology but what is described here in all the (not insignificant) de... READ MORE

Mavis Tiller

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