Dark Rock is a razor-sharp, relentless, and intelligent thriller. Bond? Bourne? Meet Bly, the Newcastle-born Spy, who is ready to show the world why you don’t mess with a Geordie.
North Shields author B Baskerville has done it again, only this time she’s swapped the rain-soaked streets of Newcastle for the sun-bleached bastions of Gibraltar.
Best known for the gritty DCI Erica Cooper crime series, set firmly in the North East, Baskerville has turned her hand to international espionage with Dark Rock, the first in a brand-new thriller series featuring a mysterious new operative: Spencer Bly.
Where Cooper chases killers through Tyneside, Spencer faces global conspiracies and political games on the world stage.
Born and raised in Newcastle, Spencer’s entire family packed their bags and fled the city in the middle of the night. “The decision that forced the Blys out of the North East shaped Spencer into an absolutely ruthless survivor.”
Dark Rock opens with the death of a British agent off the coast of Spain and an MI6 mission that leads straight to Gibraltar. There, Bly must infiltrate a luxury superyacht owned by an enigmatic arms dealer whose plans could ignite a new global conflict and reduce the Rock to rubble.
The stakes are high, the pressure relentless, and the question simple: how far would you go to stop the world from burning?
Readers are already hooked. “Best book of the year for me!” wrote one Facebook reviewer. Another admitted, “I can’t put Dark Rock down – devouring every word.”
For Baskerville, who now divides her time between writing and crewing a sailing yacht, Dark Rock is both a change of scenery and a challenge.
“It’s still about people under pressure,” she says. “Whether it’s a detective solving a murder that has already happened or an agent trying to stop the world from ending, it’s that blend of problem-solving and instinct that fascinates me.”
Fans of DCI Cooper will recognise Baskerville’s intricate plotting, attention to detail and witty dialogue, but this new series moves with the pulse of a high-stakes thriller.
Dark Rock is a razor-sharp, relentless, and intelligent thriller for fans of Spooks, Reacher, and 24. Fast-paced and unflinching, it will leave you breathless until the very last page.
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