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Pursuit
By Caitlyn Nicholas
Out 1 August 2013
Publisher: Momentum Books
Blurb
Computer
genius and legendary hacker, Dimity Pond, is on the run from the law.
She is
married to Jake, who, she discovers, is married to Susan, and is the father of
her friend Kitty’s twins. Her landlord has just sold her home to Lord Richard
Summerhayes, all her money has disappeared along with her husband, and she is
developing a vile migraine.
Richard
Summerhayes left the Special Forces after his knee was blown to bits in the
Congo. Since then he has built the best disaster-recovery computer network in
the world, at a place called The Bunker near Dover, England. Banks, military,
airports and other major systems rely on him as the last unshakeable fortress
in the face of disaster.
Dimity’s
under-the-radar life has fallen apart. Nemesis is back. Six years earlier he
framed her for the collapse of Easy Bank. The money was never found, and the
bank’s collapse caused untold damage to its customers. She’s been on the run
ever since.
When
Nemesis destroys Britain’s banking system, the only hope is an encrypted file
that only Dimity can crack, located in The Bunker. Will Nemesis manipulate
Dimity into helping him with his schemes? Or could Richard help Dimity take
Nemesis down once and for all?
Excerpt
“Oh Sarah
Easton ——” A cold digital voice mocked her. “It’s about to begin. Send the
virus.”
Cold horror
washed over Dimity. She jabbed the phone’s off button and dropped it on the
table.
A noise,
the rough grate of wood on metal, startled her. Numbers curled across her mind
as a migraine inched closer.
“It’s the
stove.” She spoke out loud, to break the quiet.
Beau – the
labrador – cozy and content at the base of the wood-burning stove, continued to
sleep as if he’d spent the morning chasing rabbits.
Which he
hadn’t.
Unless
bacon was involved, Beau never ran.
The silence
of the house closed back around her.
She scooped
up the phone, hesitating, waiting, and hoping the suffocating dread would
dissipate. It didn’t. Then she hooked the handset back into its base, flicked
open the dishwasher and unloaded the dirty cups and glasses she’d stacked there
in a rare burst of domesticity that morning.
Someone
hammered on the front door. A thick white mug, with the faded words Nerd Girl
on it, slipped from her fingers, bounced off the side of the dishwasher door
and shattered into a thousand pieces on the floor.
Jake? It
couldn’t be him. He had a key and was in the south of France. But no one ever
came to visit, she made sure of it.
The person
hammered again.
“Shit,” she
muttered. “This stupid life.”
Author bio
Caitlyn
Nicholas began writing in 2005. Exhausted, pregnant and coping with a demanding
toddler, she decided the time was right to embark on a writing career.
To her
family's eternal startlement she is now the author of five novels and a short
story.
Her debut
novel - and the first manuscript she had ever written - Running Scared, was
published in 2007. This was followed by Secret Intentions in 2009, The Danger
Game in 2012 and, Drive Me To Distraction, also in 2012. Her next novel, Pursuit, will be out in
August 2013.
Author Links
You can find me online at: http://www.caitlynnicholas.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/CaitlynNicholas
Google plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105412279044420141735/
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