Man on Fire

Creasy thought he had nothing left to lose. He was wrong.
An American soldier of fortune far from home -- alcoholic, burnt out, and broken down -- Creasy has accepted a job as a bodyguard just for something to do. An emotionally dead, one-time warrior, he knows that nothing can pierce the hard shell he's built around himself -- until the little girl he's been hired to protect somehow breaks through. But having something to care about again in making Creasy vulnerable. And when the unthinkable occurs, a man on fire won't just burn ... he'll explode.

Literature & Fiction

Quinnell, A.J.

United States

Avon/Books

Blood Ties

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

The story of a quest – a quest with a motive so powerful that it spans continents and unites strangers in danger and love.  The world of Kirsty  Haywood is mundane if undemanding.  But during a freezing New York winter her world is suddenly shattered:  her only child, Garret, is reported dead in East Africa.  Somehow Kirsty senses that he is still alive, and to lend credence to her conviction, she is willing to sacrifice everything – job, lover, apartment.

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1986.

Siege of Silence

A cold war thriller involving conspiracy and counter-plots between the Vatican and the Kremlin.

In the Name of the Father

New American Library (1987)

A Western plot to gain control of the entire Arab world by manipulating the Muslim belief in the coming of a prophet-saviour is countered by a beautiful KGB plant in the home of the mission's leader

The Mahdi

Fawcett

Serving as a bodyguard to the daughter of an Italian industrialist, an alcoholic soldier of fortune embarks on a private war of revenge against an entire Mafia organization after his young charge is brutally kidnapped

Man on Fire-Mov Tie

Genre Fiction

Fierce authentic action, masterful storytelling and a touchingly moving friendship combine in this gripping novel of suspense and revenge, set in an Italy plagued by kidnapping.  Washed-up, a near alcoholic, ex-mercenary Creasy takes on the job of guarding the 11 year old daughter of an Italian industrialist. Delightful and intelligent, she penetrates his embittered cynicism to become his friend.  Then something terrible happens that fills Creasy with a deadly and unforgiving anger. And the story explodes in a phenomenal tale of training and preparation, vengeance and execution as, armed with a formidable weaponry, Creasy wages a personal war on a powerful and evil enemy.

A cold war thriller involving conspiracy and counter-plots between the Vatican and the Kremlin.

Signet

American ambassador Jason Peabody is held captive with twenty-seven others by Jorge Calderon, a Cuban interrogator committed to getting him to reveal crucial information about United States policy, while Colonel Silas Slocum mounts an unorthodox mission to save the hostages

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Man on Fire

Blood Ties

Blood Ties

Siege of Silence

In the Name of the Father

The Mahdi

Man on Fire-Mov Tie

Man on Fire

In the Name of the Father

Siege of Silence