Fox Hunter: A Charlie Fox Thriller

by Zoë Sharp

Overview

In the latest novel in this energetic series, ex-special forces soldier Charlie Fox finds herself on a mission to the Iraqi countryside to track down a missing comrade-in-arms.

Special forces soldier-turned-bodyguard Charlotte “Charlie” Fox can never forget the men who put a brutal end to her military career, but a long time ago she vowed she would not go looking for them.

Now she doesn’t have a choice.

Her boss Sean Meyer is missing in Iraq, where one of those men was working as a private security contractor. When the man’s butchered body is discovered, Charlie fears that Sean may be pursuing a twisted vendetta on her behalf.

Charlie’s “close protection” agency in New York needs this dealt with—fast and quiet—before everything they’ve worked for goes to ruins. They send Charlie to the Middle East with very specific instructions: Find Sean Meyer and stop him—by whatever means necessary.

At one time Charlie thought she knew Sean better than she knew herself, but it seems he’s turned into a violent stranger. Always ruthless, is he really capable of such savage acts of slaughter?

As the trail grows ever more bloody, Charlie realizes that she is not the only one after Sean and, unless she can get to him first, the hunter may soon become the hunted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681777771
Publisher:	Pegasus Books
Publication date:	06/12/2018
Series:	Charlie Fox Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Zoë Sharp, the author of nine novels in the Charlie Fox series of thrillers, spent most of her formative years living on a catamaran on the northwest coast of England. She now lives in Cumbria.

Editorial Reviews

06/19/2017
Sharp’s uneven 12th Charlie Fox thriller (after 2016’s Absence of Light) takes the close protection specialist to Iraq. Charlie once had a career with the British army, until she was gang-raped by a group of fellow soldiers. The men were acquitted, and Charlie left the army. Years later, she has learned to live with this traumatic experience, but only recently has she spoken of it to her on-again, off-again lover, Sean Meyer, a close protection colleague. Sean, who suffered a near-fatal head injury a few months earlier, has now gone off the grid and appears to be seeking revenge on Charlie’s behalf, tracking down the men responsible in Iraq, where many are private military contractors. Charlie’s boss believes that Sean tortured Michael Clay, one of her rapists, to death. Charlie doubts Sean would have been so brutal, and though her job is to find and stop Sean, she must also figure out what’s really going on. Sharp spares no gruesome, or technical, details, but the heart of previous books is missing in this entry, to its detriment. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

"Charlie is a highly skilled killer, well aware of her capability for violence, with a moral underpinning that adds to her complexity, particularly here. Gritty, hard-hitting, all-around outstanding crime fiction."

Booklist (starred)

"The phrase ‘strong female character(s)’ crops up a lot in reviews of crime and thriller titles and this is still seen as sufficiently uncommon as to be worth commenting on when an author gets it right. And sadly, there are too many times when authors don’t. But there’s no danger of Zoe Sharp falling short. Sharp’s action scenes remind me of the incomparable and ever-inventive Peter O’Donnell."

Crime Review (UK)

"The only blurb on the front cover, from Lee Child, captures her completely: ‘If Jack Reacher were a woman, he’d be Charlie Fox.’ What more can—or needs to—be said? Highly recommended."

Ted Hertel

"Charlie is a highly skilled killer, well aware of her capability for violence, with a moral underpinning that adds to her complexity, particularly here. Gritty, hard-hitting, all-around outstanding crime fiction."

Booklist

"Charlie is a highly skilled killer, well aware of her capability for violence, with a moral underpinning that adds to her complexity, particularly here. Gritty, hard-hitting, all-around outstanding crime fiction."

Booklist

2017-06-06
Charlotte "Charlie" Fox (Absence of Light, 2016, etc.), a tough-as-beef-jerky former British soldier who works private security, travels to Iraq to find her former lover in Sharp's latest meticulously detailed adventure.Charlie left the military in disgrace following her rape at the hands of four of her former squad-mates, but she wasn't the only one affected by the incident. Another Special Forces solider, Sean Meyer, also lost his career due to the blowback and eventually became Charlie's lover. Sean formed Armstrong-Meyer, a successful security partnership with Parker Armstrong, and Charlie also went to work there. Following a shooting, Sean and Charlie split, and as this book opens, Parker has dispatched her to Iraq, where Sean's gone missing, to try to track him down and determine whether or not he killed Michael Clay, one of the men who raped Charlie. While looking into Clay's death, Charlie meets another former soldier named Luisa Dawson, who sets off with Charlie to piece together what happened to Clay and why. Dawson, another woman in a heavily male profession, and Charlie are soon abducted and warned off the investigation by a group of brutal and heavily armed Russians who won't tell the women why they're interested in Clay's death or why they want them gone. Soon, Charlie and Dawson are on a convoluted trail involving a ghost from Charlie's past and some missing artifacts. Charlie is no girly-girl; she's tough, driven, and very, very deadly. Sharp's series featuring the troubled and violent Charlie stands out for its knowledgeable and convincing situations and well-crafted action sequences. When Charlie talks tactics, weapons, or reconnaissance, it rings true. Sharp writes her as emotionally disillusioned and vulnerable but never helpless. Charlie's more likely to do the rescuing than be bailed out herself. Nonstop action and an intricate plot weave together to create another thrill ride for fans of Sharp's heroine—though the book is heavily dependent on back story that readers of her previous adventures will find easier to follow.

Kirkus Reviews