Thunder God

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Joe Hawke woke with a start. In the darkness of his London flat the telephone was ringing, and he scrambled to pick up the call before it rang off.

“Hawke,” was all he said. He squinted at the small clock beside his bed: 01:17.

“This is Eden.” His voice was level and inscrutable.

Hawke felt a surge of uncertainty course through his veins. He had no idea why Sir Richard Eden would be calling him in the middle of the night, but he knew he wasn’t inviting him to a birthday party.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s Lea,” Eden said firmly. “She’s gone missing.”

Hawke paused a beat to let the words sink in. He was still half asleep, and part of him wondered if all this was nothing more than a terrible dream. Eden was talking about Lea Donovan, his personal security chief, and the woman Hawke had started to fall in love with. He swung his legs out of the bed and switched on the light. The past few weeks had changed his life completely — he’d hunted down a Swiss megalomaniac, ending his insane dreams of world domination, and met Lea, the first woman he’d felt strongly about since the cold-blooded murder of his wife. Now, Eden was telling him she was gone.

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