Tarantula
Book 5.5 of John Milton
Language: English
Action Action & Adventure Espionage Europe Friendship General Juvenile Fiction Mysteries & Detective Stories People & Places Social Themes Thriller UK
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group Limited
Published: Jul 26, 2022
Description:
"[A]dventure-loving readers will find the developing friendships between the four children amusing and the mystery moderately exciting.... A jolly adventure story..."--Kirkus Reviews, review of The Case of the Smugglers' Curse: The After School Adventure Club: Book One The second in a series of gripping adventure stories featuring mystery, excitement, and friendship. Joe can't believe his luck when his dad rents a castle for their Easter holidays - but is devastated when his mom receives a better invitation and the trip is cancelled. Determined to have his holiday, Joe develops an elaborate plan to go with his friends instead. The castle is everything the friends had hoped for: a partially restored ruin with a moat, a Saxon chapel, spiral staircases and an ancient burial mound that gives it an air of mystery. But it's not long before they hear strange noises underground and notice yellow eyes lurking in the forest. And when Sherlock falls through some rotten boards and into an old well, they discover an ancient box, containing a 200-year-old notebook and an incomplete treasure map. The race is on. The After School Detective Club is on the trail of Ragnar's gold - a hoard of treasure said to have been buried by a Viking warrior and guarded by his demon hound . . . that is, unless someone else gets there first.
MEET JOHN MILTON.
He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder.
Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list.
In this second dip into his case files (see 1000 Yards for a further free novella), Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15, the secret assassination squad that liquidates those considered to be impediments to the furtherance of British interests.
Milton discovers that the agent was involved with the Camorra, the powerful Mafia clan that controls the territory from Naples to the tip of the Italian boot. He identifies the assassin as a man nicknamed Tarantula.
Now Tarantula, and his boss, are entries in Milton’s ledger. And all debts need to be paid.
Also included: the first chapter of the first full-length Milton novel, THE CLEANER.