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The Aphrodite Conspiracy

"Mike Lawrence's premiere novel moves along at a cracking breakneck pace, a real page turner that makes the last James Bond continuation author's efforts read like Mills & Boon on valium. It should be stocked at all airport bookshops as the ideal holiday read. Graham Rye - Editor & Publisher, 007 MAGAZINE.

Matthew Palmer's world is about to be shot to pieces - literally.

The thirtysomething, free and single entrepreneur has sold up in the UK, purchased a forty foot motor cruiser and followed a long held dream to run his own diving charter service in the land of Aphrodite. The days are filled with the hot Cyprus sun and warm sea. The nights with..... Well, life just doesn't get any better.

A chance meeting with the beautiful and elusive Katherina at a resort hotel piques Matthew's curiosity and has him following her two miles out to sea and one hundred and fifty feet down into one of the world's most dangerous wrecks in the dead of night. Barely surviving an attack by barracuda and then having to rescue the trapped girl from the depths of the dead leviathan draws on every ounce of skill and reserve yet plunges Matthew headlong into a bloody conspiracy of extortion, kidnapping and murder.

Bereft of everything but his life and deported as a suspect, he returns to the UK to track down the source of his humiliation.

 Under the tanned and easygoing exterior Matthew's need for revenge festers like an unexploded grenade and at thirty thousand feet over the French Alps on the night flight home a would-be assassin pulls the pin...

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