Conville & Walsh
Fightback
- Author: Steve Voake
- Category: Fiction Crime/Thriller/Action and Suspense
- Publisher: Faber & Faber (UK)
- Pub date: 1 April 2010
- Length: 240 pages
About Fightback
Kier glanced around and decided things didn’t look good. He’d put two armed bank robbers on the floor in less than a minute and he hadn’t even broken sweat. If word got back to Jackson, he’d be furious…
Kier West has never really known his father. Every year, when the other children go home from school for the holidays, he is flown off to various summer camps where he learns to become independent. But when his father is murdered by two masked men, Kier is determined to find his killers. While searching for clues in a London park, he meets a sixteen year old girl called Saskia, who seems to know all about his father. After fighting off several assailants on the tube with apparent ease, she convinces Kier to come with her to Crete. Here he meets Jackson, a rich man who formed his own unofficial police force after losing his son to the same gang that killed Kier‘s father. But all his operatives have been compromised, and now he needs Kier and Saskia to help him discover who is behind the gang‘s operation. Kier is sent to an isolated monastery where an old man teaches him self-defence to a level unimaginable to most people. Once his training is complete, he returns to London with Saskia and together they embark upon a dangerous, high-risk plan to bring his father‘s killers to justice…
About the Author
Steve Voake was formerly headmaster of Kilmersdon Primary School in Somerset. Following the huge success of his first novel THE DREAMWALKER’S CHILD and with further books commissioned by Faber in the UK and Bloomsbury in the US, he resigned from his position to focus on writing full time. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University and is a regular tutor for The Arvon Foundation. Steve has also written the ‘DAISY DAWSON’ series (Walker Books) for younger readers which was published by Candlewick in the US and became a bestseller for Scholastic Book Club.
Steve is currently working on a new novel for Faber and a new series for Walker Books, the first of which, HOOEY HIGGINS & THE SHARK, will be published in March 2010. He lives in Somerset with his wife and two children.