The new CSCI Cruise crime book is out – The Unexpected is a dark, intense, and sophisticated thriller that unravels beneath the polished façade of the international cruise industry. It fuses pulse-pounding action with rich character drama, balancing suspense, sharp humour, and keen cultural insight — all set against an audacious initiative to revive the Baltic cruise route into Russia. Layered with complexity and always emotionally resonant, this is a world where freedom dances perilously close to betrayal.

Think Slow Horses meets Zero Day, but on the luxury decks your audience has walked….

Groomed activists, sleeper agents, espionage, and betrayal—The Diplomat meets Jack Ryan.

After thwarting a Russian-backed cruise ship terror plot on Christmas Day, investigator Kieron Philips is marked for death by the Kremlin. To survive, and stop a global escalation, he must eliminate the one man who knows his identity—before he is revealed to the Kremlin.

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