Ambush: A Steve Flynn Thriller

British author Oldham’s violent, action-packed sequel to Onslaught finds Steve Flynn leading an idyllic life on the Mediterranean resort island of Ibiza. When he’s not running pleasure cruises for the rich, he’s spending time with his lover, Maria Santiago. The brutality and horror of his previous job as a Lancashire detective fighting the region’s biggest drug traffickers is quickly becoming a distant memory. But when some of his former colleagues begin dying—all shot in gangland fashion—Flynn quickly realizes that all the victims are tied to an old case involving the arrest and conviction of a psychopathic crime boss who apparently died in prison months earlier. With only Flynn and one other cop left from the police team that participated in an antidrug operation, he must stay alive long enough to figure out who’s doing the killing—and why. Oldham’s fluid, deeply atmospheric prose helps compensate for the two-dimensional characters and an abrupt ending that will not satisfy some readers. (Oct.)