Tom Cain - No Survivors

Praise forNo Survivors

An Indie Next Notable Book

A Daily Mail Best Thriller of the Year

Nominated for a Barry Award for Best Thriller

Beyond a shadow of a doubt the thriller of the year. Nail biting doesnt even come close; its the purest shot of adrenaline youll get this or any other year.

Ken Bruen, author of The Guards

[A] burst of pure adrenaline... Breathless reading.

Daily Mail

Tom Cain is forging a new standard for international thrillersone that incorporates breakneck pacing, provocative concepts, and relentless action.

Steve Berry, author of The Alexandria Link

A roller-coaster action adventure ride.

Publishers Weekly

From the first double cross to the explosive finale, No Survivors shifts like a rocket.

Jason Goodwin, author of The Janissary Tree

This book is like a bombfit to blow. Lean prose, breathless pacing and easily recognizable charactertypes combine to create an engrossing read.

Scene Magazine

I loved No Survivors. Tom Cain has crafted an all-too-real thriller that crackles with tension and leaves you questioning which parts are true and which are fiction. This one will keep you up at night.

Sean Chercover, author of Trigger City

Cain remains particularly adept at writing post-Bourne action sequences, and Carver is a first-rate action hero... The book makes for one hell of a weekends worth of entertainment.

Kirkus Reviews

Another stunnercompulsive and vastly entertaining reading.

Wilbur Smith, author of The Quest

Samuel Carver is a classic flawed hero to match all the greats... and we want more of him!

crimesquad.com

Samuel Carver is the thinking womans action hero. No Survivors is thriller writing at its best.

Tasha Alexander, author of A Fatal Waltz

Irresistible. Smart and fast-paced, with everything you want from an international spy thriller. Cains romantically vexed lead charactersconflicted, driven, deadlyare both morally bankrupt and completely human.

Chelsea Cain, author of Heartsick and Sweetheart

Definitely a thriller, with bodies galore.

The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)

Swift and deadly as a hollow-point bullet, No Survivors by Tom Cain is a glistening dark gem of a thriller, fascinating, compelling, and beautiful in its rich complexity. Plan to stay in for the nightyou wont want to move until you read the last page.

Gayle Lynds, author of The Last Spymaster

Praise forThe Accident Man

A tour de force... I found myself favourably comparing Cains storytelling with the best of Ian Fleming and Robert Ludlum as I dashed from one page to the next.

Calgary Herald

Audacious, authentic, full of tension and tradecraft... Maybe its true and maybe it isnt, but either way its a great thriller read. I loved it.

Lee Child

Audacious... utterly fantastic.

Ottawa Citizen

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NO SURVIVORS

TOM CAIN is the nom de plume of David Thomas, an award-winning British journalist. His first novel, The Accident Man, was an international bestseller and is available in Penguin paperback.

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On September 7, 1997, General Alexander Lebed, former National Security Adviser to Russias President Yeltsin, appeared on the prime-time American television news program 60 Minutes. He revealed that his government no longer knew the whereabouts of many of their small-scale nuclear weapons, commonly described as suitcase nukes.

More than a hundred weapons out of the supposed number of two hundred and fifty are not under the control of the armed forces of Russia, Lebed said. I dont know their location. I dont know whether they have been destroyed or whether they are stored or whether theyve been sold or stolen. I dont know.

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