Freefall review: High octane thriller about a photojournalist

Eight months after Wallace confronted the killer nicknamed Pendulum, who targeted seemingly random people in the UK and America, Wallace is still coming to terms with what he was forced to do. The story opens with him putting himself at risk by living with a remote tribe in an Afghanistan war zone.

It takes an assassination attempt to haul him back to reality and as he tracks down his hunter, he discovers a link to his nemesis Pendulum.

This link is the missing piece of a puzzle that has tormented FBI agent Christine Ash since she and Wallace confronted the masked man. Wallace’s discovery breaks the case wide open but exposes them both to terrible danger from a global network threatening to destroy the Western way of life. They must evade hidden enemies for long enough to stop the conspiracy.

Freefall is a relentless, adrenaline-charged thriller that grips from the first page, even if some of the scenarios teeter on the verge of implausibility.