Secrets of State

An unputdownable thriller set at the height of the brutal spy wars between East and West in the bitter aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

‘One of those compulsive narratives that defy your attempts at speed reading and keep you turning the pages until the small hours’ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

‘Welcome to a new thriller master’ JOHN BRAINE

Eugene Vale – American war hero and multi-millionaire businessman – has lived with two terrifying secrets for over forty years.

When news breaks of Vale’s appointment to the position of US Secretary of State, his past threatens to ruin him.

In order to protect Vale – soon to be one of the most powerful men in the world – mysterious forces orchestrate a series of brutal murders, permanently silencing anyone with information that could compromise him.

But when Adam Polk connects the sudden death of his wife’s father with a mysterious WWII diary and begins to investigate, a huge conspiracy threatens to fall apart.

Because Adam and his wife Lukia will risk everything to get to the truth – even if they put themselves in the gravest danger…

‘Enough twists and turns to keep the reader guessing right up to the end’ **BIRMINGHAM POST **

‘The pace is vast, the expertise spot-on and the tension terrific. Recommended highly’ **SUNDAY PRESS IRELAND **

** Praise for Peter **

‘One of the world’s best thriller writers’ **IRISH INDEPENDENT **

‘Breath-taking’ **PUBLISHERS WEEKLY **

‘Impossible to put down’ **DAILY TELEGRAPH **

‘Peter Driscoll is in the tradition of the master storytellers’ **CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOOK WORLD **

‘Immediately takes his place with such masters of suspense and excitement as Alistair MacLean and Frederick Forsyth’ **DENVER POST **