The Bombmaker by Stephen Leather (Epub)

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Andrea Hayes was one of the IRA’s most deadly killers. But when a misplaced bomb ripped apart a group of passing kids, she left all that behind her.

Now, years later, she lives a quiet, suburban life with her husband and young daughter, and her days of violence seem a distant memory. But then her daughter is kidnapped by persons unknown, and the past comes knocking at her door . . .

User’s Reviews

From AudioFile Andrea used to make bombs for Irish dissidents. She was very good at it. But then one of them accidentally killed some Catholic children. So she gave up that line to become a wife and mother. But now her daughter has been kidnapped. If she wants to see the little girl again, she’ll have to make a bomb for the child’s captors. How will she get out of this mess? Who exactly are these people? What do they have to do with the Chinese underworld? This unconvincing thriller gets better treatment than it deserves from Irish actor Sean Barrett, who has a beautiful low voice and who excels at characterization. Y.R. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine– Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine –This text refers to the audioCD edition. Review “This is as high-tech and world-class as the thriller genre gets.” —Express on Sunday –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From the Publisher Andrea Hayes was one of the IRA’s deadliest killers—until a misplaced bomb ripped into a group of passing children. Now, years later, she has a whole new life and a family, and her days of violence seem a distant memory. But then her daughter is kidnapped by persons unknown, and she’s blackmailed into building a massive explosive device for them—target unknown… The Bombmaker is Stephen Leather at his best, taking the reader from Dublin, to London, to the depths of the Far East. Stephen Leather is a former journalist for THE TIMES and Hong Kong’s SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. His many books include Eyewitness, The Stretch, The Vets, and Tango One. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ This is very different from the Spider books that got Stephen Leather to be recognized..and much better even though I liked his Spider books.He takes his knowledge and applies it to a very different scenario. Good character development and outstanding plot.

⭐ Compelling characters. Tense, fast-paced. Wonderful plot development. Satisfying conclusion.

⭐ This book was a great read – I know it was on TV, I have been looking to buy the DVD with no luck. Perhaps it is just as well usually a lot is lost bringing the story to film.

⭐ I have already said so many good things about Stephen Leather’s books, I don’t know what else to say. Read them.

⭐ Very amueterish . His late books are fantastic . This is poor.

⭐ Stephen Leather continues to write with authority and has the abilty to increase the tension in his story line.I enjoyed it very much.

⭐ Stephen Leather delivers again with another “can;t put down” book. .

⭐ What would happen if two tons of fertilizer hit the fan?During the first hundred pages of THE BOMBMAKER, one learns that four otherwise respectable Beijing Chinese – a general, two bankers, and a relative of former Communist Party First Secretary Deng Xiaoping – want to blow a bloody big hole in the center of London’s financial district. Why isn’t immediately apparent. Maybe they’d encountered a snippy foreign exchange teller on their last visit to The City. To work out the details, they employ a mysterious killer-for-hire named Egan, who coerces a former IRA bombmaker, Andrea Hayes, to construct the explosive device by kidnapping her young daughter, Katie. In the bad old days, Andrea specialized in fertilizer bombs, but gave up that line of work after accidently killing four young boys and maiming a fifth. For years, she’s lived with her husband, Martin, who knows nothing of her past.THE BOMBMAKER is such a first rate knuckle-biter that the unspecified reason for the plot, though eventually revealed, recedes into the background and the reader is left to fear for Katie in her basement prison, to empathize with Andrea confronting the repercussions of past notoriety and four-thousand pounds of smelly Bandini, and sympathize with Martin left alone, frantic, and without a clue. And it only gets better when MI5 finally gets dropped into the plot’s mix.The high-tension ending should leave even the most jaded of thriller readers satisfied. Oddly, however, it’s spunky Katie’s last act that prompted me to award 5 stars, even though she’s given relatively little exposure in the overall story. Because of her, I ended up liking this book enormously. Cross my heart and swear to die.

⭐ In her younger and politically naïve student years, Andrea Hayes made bombs for the IRA, ones that were designed to wreck buildings not people in order to create chaos not murder.Andy has moved to Dublin and re-invented herself as a loyal wife and the doting mother of seven-year-old Katie. And then the daughter is kidnapped.Soon the note arrives that in exchange for the girl, she has to do IT again. Return to Semtex, to that most unforgiving craft of explosives and mayhem: she will have to build a four thousand pounds bomb in exchange for Katie…Good suspense otherwise nothing else. The book is read by Séan Barret for ISIS audiobooks. A nice performance.

⭐ Odd that this author is basically non-existent in the US. The Bombmaker is a tense thriller that starts off just a tad slow but that steadily cranks up the tension until you find yourself unwilling to put it down until you finish it. Perhaps the best thing about it is its convincing portrayal of the workings of a Secret Service and the way it goes about preventing a terrorist act. I found the book quite interesting in this respect. While the characters are a bit two-dimensional, the plotting is excellent, and the book is a good, easy, tension-filled read.

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