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978-0008747459

A Very Dangerous Pursuit

A Very Dangerous Pursuit

by Ben Miller

Publisher HarperCollins

Genre: Crime

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Adventure can be a deadly business.

It began in the manner of all the very best adventures: in a coffee house.

When one Richard Hannay―intrepid, inquisitive, and on the hunt for intrigue―encounters an old acquaintance in Constantinople, he has an inkling that something thrilling is afoot.

Charged with an item of great mystery and import―a washbag, no less!―he soon finds himself in a very dangerous pursuit: from the luxurious confines of the Orient Express to the decks of the Titanic herself, all with the very fate of Europe in his care.

Can he slip the net of Count Schwabing, whose long arm stretches from Berlin to the Bosphorus? And what of Madame Zara, the cabaret enchantress―does she play at affection, deception, or something far more deadly?

In over his head, often a step―or thirty-nine―behind, but absolutely, resolutely determined to save the day, Hannay is about to embark on an escapade that will test his wits, his courage, and his ability to keep hold of a blasted washbag.

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About the Author

Ben Miller

Ben Miller is an actor, director, and comedian, best known for writing and starring in The Armstrong and Miller Show and his role as Rowan Atkinson’s sidekick, Bough, in Johnny English Strikes Back.


Other recent big screen roles include What We Did On Our Holiday with Billy Connolly, and the much-loved Paddington 2 with, well, Paddington. On television, he is best known for the crime comedy drama Death In Paradise which has been a big hit worldwide.


Ben's debut YA novel, The Night I Met Father Christmas, was published in 2019 by Simon & Schuster, and his second, The Boy Who Made the World Disappear, was also published by S&S in 2019.

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