Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Series: Ben Hope - #10
Release Date: 29th January 2015
Publisher: Avon
Publisher: Avon
Genres: Thriller
Brook Cottage Books is thrilled to be one of 10 blogs chosen to take part in this promotional tour for Scott Mariani's new book THE FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST. #BenHopeTen
Let's find out a little about the book and then there's a tasty excerpt for you!
Let's find out a little about the book and then there's a tasty excerpt for you!
The breathtaking new adventure starring Ben Hope A lost, aimless and hard-drinking Ben Hope has wandered back to his old haunt in Ireland. The ex-SAS soldier is searching for peace, but trouble soon appears when Kirsten Hall, a young journalist, is brutally murdered right in front of him. Unable to prevent it, Ben is driven by guilt to hunt down the killers. All he has to go on is a handful of clues from Kirsten's research - but how can the journals of Lady Stamford, the wife of an English lord during the time of the Irish Great Famine, have put Kirsten in mortal danger? Ben's quest for the truth leads him across the world and finally to Oklahoma, USA, where a deadly secret awaits. What connects the journals, a wealthy American politician and an intrigue surrounding the Irish famine? What Ben uncovers is a shocking historical conspiracy linked to the deaths of some two million people: a veritable holocaust that time has all but forgotten. Those who are still profiting from the lies and corruption of the time, and who are ready to kill anyone to protect their secret, are about to pay ...
EXCERPT
Chapter One
Oologah
Lake
25
miles from Tulsa, Oklahoma
The
present day
The August sun was
still high above the trees by the time Erin reached the cabin. The driver
pulled the Cadillac Escalade to a halt, got out and opened the back door for
her.
‘Thanks, Joe,’ Erin
said brightly, stepping down from the car with her small backpack, which was
all the luggage she’d brought.
‘You have yourself
a great weekend, Miss Hayes,’ Joe replied. ‘You got the number, right? Just
call me whenever you want, and I’ll come right away to take you home.’ With a
final smile, he got back behind the wheel, and she watched the car disappear
down the track that was the only access to this remote spot.
‘So here we are,’
Erin said to herself, gazing around her once she was alone.
Angela hadn’t been
kidding about the beauty of the place. So this was how the wealthy folks lived.
And for just a couple of days, humble charity worker Erin Hayes was to have it
all to herself. Everyone should have an employer this generous.
Oologah Lake. The
name came from the Cherokee word for ‘dark cloud’. This northern corner of
Oklahoma was known for its fearsome windstorms. Today, though, the lake was as
still as glass, visible through the trees with the sunlight glittering across
its vastness and gleaming off the windows of the boathouse by the little jetty.
The cabin itself was long and low, surrounded by a whitewood veranda complete
with rocking chair and beautiful old lanterns. The nearest neighbours were
about a mile away through the woods, or so she’d been told.
The solitude didn’t
bother Erin a bit. It was Friday, the end of a long week, and she had nothing
on her mind other than the peaceful weekend ahead. She let herself inside and
quickly entered the alarm code on the keypad panel near the door.
Angela might call
it a cabin, but the place seemed three times the size of Erin’s miniscule house
in Tulsa’s Crosbie Heights district. The furnishings were predictably
expensive.
The walls and floor
were burnished oak and walnut, gleaming with a thousand coats of varnish. Some
architect must have got paid a packet to come up with the design. The right
blend of traditional and modern, with a high ceiling framed all the way around
by a galleried landing that overlooked the open-plan living space below. Four
bedrooms radiated off the landing, east, south, north and west. She spent a
while exploring, then carried her backpack upstairs to the room she’d decided
would be hers for the weekend. The east bedroom, so she’d be woken by the
rising sun in the morning.
About Scott Mariani
Scott Mariani is the author of the worldwide-acclaimed action-adventure thriller series featuring ex-SAS hero Ben Hope, which has sold over a million copies in Scott’s native
UK alone and is also translated into over 20 languages. His books have been described as ‘James Bond meets Jason Bourne, with a historical twist.’ The first Ben Hope book,
THE ALCHEMIST’S SECRET, spent six straight weeks at #1 on Amazon’s Kindle chart, and all the others have been Sunday Times bestsellers.
Scott was born in Scotland, studied in Oxford and now lives and writes in a remote setting in rural west Wales. When not writing, he can be found bouncing about the country
lanes in an ancient Land Rover, wild camping in the Brecon Beacons or engrossed in his hobbies of astronomy, photography and target shooting (no dead animals involved!).
You can find out more about Scott and his work, and sign up to his exclusive newsletter, on his official website www.scottmariani.com
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