Clare Francis: Red Crystal [2013] paperback Condition:Good Muir's writing is as sharp

Muir's writing is as sharp as a broken tooth

the hapless detectives who lost the trail

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But everyone gets more chaos than they bargained for when a video of a wounded Iraqi and a soldier who looks a lot like Eoin starts circulating

she and her sister will be allowed to leave

Clare Francis: Red Crystal [2013] paperback Condition:Good Muir's writing is as sharpOut of the savagery of the Paris barricades there was born the most sinister of all the terrorist groups of the late 1960s. Secretly funded by Moscow, trained in subversion and assassination in Italy, the Crystal Faction came to England. To wage war . . . For Nick Ryder of Special Branch, finding and infiltrating the cell presented a daunting challenge. Hampered by the deviousness of his own superiors and lack of cooperation from MI5, he was drawn