AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Imitator Rebecca Starford A page-turning World War Two spy thriller, based on true events. Description 'The Imitator gripped me to the end: I devoured it … What a rare treat to find a novel that offers both white-knuckled suspense and evocative, beautiful prose. I loved it.' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites and The Good People 'We trade in secrets here, Evelyn. There's no shame in having a few of your own. Our only concern is for who might discover them.' Out of place at boarding school, scholarship girl Evelyn Varley realises that the only way for her to fit in is to be like everyone else. She hides her real self and what she really thinks behind the manners and attitudes of those around her. By the time she graduates from Oxford University in 1939, ambitious and brilliant Evelyn has perfected her performance. War is looming. Evelyn soon finds herself recruited to MI5, and the elite counterintelligence department of Bennett White, the enigmatic spy-runner. Recognising Evelyn's mercurial potential, White schools her in observation and subterfuge and assigns her the dangerous task of infiltrating an underground group of Nazi sympathisers working to form an alliance with Germany. But befriending people to betray them isn't easy, no matter how dark their intent. Evelyn is drawn deeper into a duplicity of her own making, where truth and lies intertwine, and her increasing distrust of everyone, including herself, begins to test her better judgement. When a close friend becomes dangerously ensnared in her mission, Evelyn's loyalty is pushed to breaking point, forcing her to make an impossible decision. A powerfully insightful and luminous portrait of courage and loyalty, and the sacrifices made in their name. About the Author Rebecca Starford is publishing director of Kill Your Darlings magazine and author of acclaimed memoir Bad Behaviour: A Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529796 Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School, which is currently in development with Matchbox Pictures for adaptation into a Format: C-Format PB TV series. She lives in Brisbane with her partner and son. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2: <Table Missing> Author now living: Rocklea, QLD Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Imitator 12 copy pack Point of Sale Includes 12 copies of The Imitator plus a free reading copy. Description Includes 12 copies of The Imitator plus a free reading copy. About the Author Price: AU $359.88 NZ $395.88 ISBN: 9324551077924 Format: Pack Package Type: MIXTURES PACK Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: <Table Missing> Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Devils You Know Ben Sanders Ben Sanders, author of American Blood, strikes again in a mile-a-minute white-knuckle ride through the heart of darkness in sunny California. Description 'It's easy to see what the fuss is about. Sanders' prose is sharper than a switchblade . It's like Raymond Chandler, Lee Child and Elmore Leonard rolled into one.' - Sydney Morning Herald on American Blood Vincent needs a change. He's spent the last fifteen years in covert operations for the US government, but after a botched and fatal mission, he decides he's done with pulling triggers for shadowy officialdom. He wants a rest from the violence. Vincent accepts a job in Santa Barbara, California, as head of security for supermarket mogul Eugene Lamar. It's perfect: his main duty is driving the boss to and from golf, which means ample down-time for surfing, or sitting by the pool contemplating life - and how to live it with a zero body-count. He's intrigued too by Lamar's daughter - the journalist Erin Jones - on tour in California to promote her book about the benefits of war. Vincent's seen his share of conflict and is sure he can change her mind - and he'd really like to make his case over drinks. There's only one problem: if Lamar's business is confined to supermarkets, why does he need a panic room full of assault rifles, and a .357 revolver in his car? It turns out Lamar owes a debt to bad people - but that's the very least of the trouble. He's ensnared in a criminal enterprise which soon brings costs in lives as well as money. Erin wants answers, and needs Vincent's help to get them. But how much does she already know? Is his deep attraction to her a liability? And can Vincent keep her safe from the brutal characters who are after her father? Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760877873 It seems that Santa Barbara is a sunny town full of dark talent, and Vincent worries he'll have to revert to dark talents of Format: C-Format PB his own if he's going to stay alive . Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 336 pages About the Author Bic1: Thriller / suspense Ben Sanders is the author of American Blood, Marshall's Law, and The Stakes, as well as three New Zealand Fiction Bic2: <Table Missing> Bestsellers: The Fallen, By Any Means, and Only the Dead. Sanders's first three novels were written while he was Author now living: Auckland, NZ. studying at university; he graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Engineering and now writes full-time. American Blood, his highly-anticipated American debut, published in November 2015, and the second in the series, Marshall's Law, in April 2017. His third US-set novel, The Stakes, was published in 2018. Sanders lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Devils You Know 12 copy pack Point of Sale Includes 12 copies of The Devils You Know plus a free reading copy. Description Includes 12 copies of The Devils You Know plus a free reading copy. About the Author Price: AU $359.88 NZ $395.88 ISBN: 9324551077931 Format: Pack Package Type: MIXTURES PACK Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: <Table Missing> Author now living: Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 American Blood Ben Sanders A former undercover cop now in witness protection finds himself pulled into the search for a missing woman. An explosive, unputdownable work of suspense from a fresh voice in crime fiction. Description After a botched undercover operation, ex-NYPD officer Marshall Grade is living in witness protection in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Marshall's instructions are to keep a low profile: the mob wants him dead, and a contract killer known as the Dallas Man has been hired to track him down. Racked with guilt over wrongs committed during his undercover work, and seeking atonement, Marshall investigates the disappearance of a local woman named Alyce Ray. Members of a drug ring seem to hold clues to Ray's whereabouts, but hunting traffickers is no quiet task. Word of Marshall's efforts spreads, and soon the worst elements of his former life, including the Dallas Man, are coming for him. Written by a rising New Zealand star who has been described as 'first rate', this American debut drops a Jack Reacher- like hero into the landscape of No Country for Old Men. 'a first-rate, first-class, top-tier thriller . that flat-out demands to be read. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. If you love a good thriller, then look no further than American Blood.'- Lorenzo Carcaterra, New York Times-bestselling author of Sleepers and The Wolf. About the Author Ben Sanders is the author of three previous novels: The Fallen (2010), By Any Means (2011), and Only The Dead (2013), all of which were New Zealand Fiction Bestsellers. Sanders' first three novels were written while he was studing at university; he graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Engineering, but now writes full-time. American Blood is his first U.S.- based novel. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781760294977 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: <Table Missing> Author now living: Auckland, NZ. Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 What Could Be Saved Liese O'Halloran Schwarz An enthralling, redemptive novel set in Bangkok in 1972 and Washington, DC in 2019 about an expatriate child who goes missing, whose family is contacted decades later by a man claiming to be the vanished boy. Description 'A harrowing tale of the lies of omission and the lies of commission that can break a family apart, What Could Be Saved is a delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, and elegance: rich with detail, lush in language, and capable of keeping you on the edge of your seat.' - Jodi Picoult Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, Laura ignores Bea's warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. But meeting him in person leads to more questions than answers. Bangkok, 1972: Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. In these exotic surroundings, Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the US - ballet and riding classes for the children, impeccable dinner parties, a meticulously kept home.