This is not just a continuation novel or a standard author collaboration, we see lots of those, this is a publishing event. A new book that will have thriller fans salivating. The combined power of one of the world’s best sellers, a writer who lived in the moment, with a contemporary writer who rocket fuel into high octane Dempsey and Devlin thrillers. Forsyth’s debut The Day of the Jackal was a tour de force, his best work, but The Odessa File was zeitgeisty, relevant and a world bestseller. The relevance of this book has never dampened, sadly the Nazis are still out there. As Forsyth said in 2024 the political realities portrayed in The Odessa File ‘are still very much with us’. It was inspired to work with Tony Kent on a sequel. Now we have Revenge of Odessa. So what do you get when you put one of the world’s favourite thriller writers with one of the most exciting contemporary job octane authors – fireworks. A thrill ride worthy of Forsyth’s reputation and a clear indication that Kent is in the moment.
Set this summer. The junior senator for Ohio is burned to death in a fire in Washington along with a young intern, it was no accident. At a football match in VfB Stuttgart a shooting causes panic and rising sentiment of fear and resentment at islam and immigration. The Magdeburg Christmas attack fresh in the mind. Georg Miller, the grandson of Peter the hero of The Odessa File, is a successful podcaster reporter for Hamburg news magazine Komet and heads to hospital to report on the injured. While there he bumps into an old man who mistakes him for his father. The old man is suffering from Alzheimer’s but claims to have killed Georg father. As far as Georg knows his parents were killed in a car crash. Rant against Jewish people. The man says the old days are coming back. He’d dismiss this as the ravings of a troubled mind. Only when he talks to his grandfather he realises he fears that Nazism is still a problem. When he asks more questions of the old man and his family then old man is murdered on his dementia ward. It’s not long before Georg is targeted and is on the run from would be assassins. Odessa did not die fifty years earlier, it’s been festering and now feels the time is right to make a move. Meanwhile in Washington things are moving quickly. What links the corridors of power in Washington with Bavarian halls. Vanessa Price begins to feel there’s a conspiracy brewing. Look out for Scott Brogan exSAS/MI6 and a friend Peter calls in to protect his grandson. With the global situation as it is this novel has a relevance that strikes a chilling chord.