Double Cross

Coral islands, riddles, and non-stop action in this stunning debut thriller.

Patrick Woodrow was born in 1971. He lives in London and is a keen diver.

When Ed Strachan's parents were killed in a horrific car crash eighteen years ago, they left their son a miserly inheritance: the memory of a mangled nursery rhyme and a cufflink inscribed with a single set of coordinates. 
 
But eighteen years later when a beautiful girl tries to poison Ed and steal the cufflink he guesses it may have greater significance than he had imagined. Christine Molyneux is just the first of many who will stop at nothing to get hold of it. 
 
Ed is soon prime suspect in a complicated homicide and immersed in a mystery that goes back way before his parent's death. It is a mystery that lies hidden off a coral island in the South China Sea; that has already cost thousands of lives and that will cost many more before it sees the light of day again. 
Fans of Clive Cussler will love Double Cross: a breathtaking mixture of mystery, action and undersea adventure.

Patrick Woodrow

Fans of Wilbur Smith will love First Contact: an exotic, edge-of-the-seat mystery that gripped me from the first page. Vivid characters and electric narrative pace combine to make this an authentic, original and hugely entertaining read. The future of the adventure thriller is in safe hands.

Charles Cumming, best-selling author of A Spy By Nature and Typhoon

Well written, excellent character development, easy to read and completely absorbing.  This book is simply awesome

Vivid characters and electric narrative pace combine to make this an authentic, original and hugely entertaining read.

Charles Cumming, Bestselling Author of A Spy By Nature

Top drawer adventure...you wouldn't want to miss the excitement

Patrick Woodrow is an author to be reckoned with

A competent and convincing thriller that mixes excitement with an intelligent interest in the world's last remaining wild places

This book is simply awesome. I highly recommend it. Well written, excellent character development, easy to read and completely absorbing

A dizzying spinning-wheel of a tale, where pace is king

In the heart of the jungle lies a powerful secret. 
 
A secret thousands die for every year. 
 
A secret that men will kill for. 
 
They hoped for the trip of a lifetime. Now they are minutes from death. 
 
Mark and Melanie Bridges are lost in the world's most hostile forest. Their guides are dead. They have no shelter, no water, no hope. Then, as the shadows lengthen, they stumble on the wreck of a crashed helicopter. The pilot and passenger are bones, their doomed mission to this remote and dangerous land, uncertain. But the skeletons have left behind both good and bad: vital supplies to keep the pair alive. And a mystery that threatens to kill them. 
 
Soon nowhere is safe. Not even the civilisation they left behind. And as the clues unfold, so begin the lies, the blackmail, the kidnapping and murder. Because Mark and Melanie's secret is far bigger than they ever imagined. Bigger too than the jungle that hides it, and the ruthless killers who pursue it. It is a secret that commands the power of life and death. A secret that will change the world forever.

Patrick Woodrow

Praise for First Contact

Fans of Wilbur Smith will love First Contact: an exotic, edge-of-the-seat mystery that gripped me from the first page. Vivid characters and electric narrative pace combine to make this an authentic, original ...

Well written, excellent character development, easy to read and completely absorbing. This book is simply awesome

Vivid characters and electric narrative pace combine to make this an authentic, original and hugely entertaining read.

Fans of Wilbur Smith will love First Contact: an exotic, edge-of-the-seat mystery that gripped me from the first page. Vivid characters and electric narrative pace combine to make this an authentic, original ...

Well written, excellent character development, easy to read and completely absorbing. This book is simply awesome

Vivid characters and electric narrative pace combine to make this an authentic, original and hugely entertaining read.

Fans of Wilbur Smith will love First Contact: an exotic, edge-of-the-seat mystery that gripped me from the first page. Vivid characters and electric narrative pace combine to make this an authentic, original ...

Well written, excellent character development, easy to read and completely absorbing. This book is simply awesome

Vivid characters and electric narrative pace combine to make this an authentic, original and hugely entertaining read.

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