Scott Mariani Moscow cipher

The Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller returns with the 17th Ben Hope thriller.

`If you like your conspiracies twisty, your action bone-jarring, and your heroes impossibly dashing, then look no farther.

' MARK DAWSON When twelve-year-old Valentina fails to return from a visit to her father in Moscow, alarm bells start ringing.

Her rich and powerful family know there's one man they can depend on to bring her back safe: former SAS major Ben Hope.

But what starts off as an apparently straightforward case of parental child abduction quickly takes on more sinister dimensions as Ben travels to Moscow and starts to investigate the whereabouts of Valentina and her father, Yuri - a man with a hidden past not even his ex-wife knows about.

Now that past has caught up with him, it's not only Yuri's life that is in danger, but Valentina's too.

If Ben Hope can't save them, nobody can.

BEN HOPE is one of the most celebrated action adventure heroes in British fiction and Scott Mariani is the author of numerous bestsellers.

Join the ever-growing legion of readers who get breathless with anticipation when the countdown to the new Ben Hope thriller begins.