The Geneva Run
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He is Thames Barn - gentleman, ghost, and the last man an arms dealer wants entered in his rally.
Twelve guidance cores for the Kestrel-9, a weapons programme the world agreed to bury, are on the move. The Loom, a private arms network with clean offices and dirty hands, has hidden them inside the engine blocks of three classic cars running the Aurelia Rally - six days of vintage thunder from Chamonix, over the Great St Bernard Pass, through Turin, and down to Geneva, where a respectable auction house will sell them as certified historic engines to a buyer who must never receive them. If the cores reach Selvaria, its rival Tavren answers in kind, and two nations start down a road neither can leave.
So Barn does what he always does. He enters the rally himself, in a silver-blue 1962 Castellan with the number 17 on its door, a retired champion beside him reading the road, and a tie pin that can smell a lie told in shielded metal. Ahead of him: a rally director with something to hide, a rival driver with orders to end his run, a young mechanic in over his head, and a final rendezvous aboard a yacht on the dark water of Lake Geneva, where the sale closes and the money moves.
Armed with a new gadget for every job, his father's old chronometer ticking against his wrist, and a nerve that has never once cracked, Barn follows the engines. The buyers are expecting a delivery. What they get is Thames Barn.
THE GENEVA RUN is a sophisticated, globe-trotting spy thriller starring an original gentleman hero - impeccably dressed, quietly fearless, and gone before anyone thinks to ask his name. Ten chapters. One rally. No delivery.
Drake's book is right behind it - all ten chapters are written, it's in final assembly now.
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