The Black Fox

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Zoe Tampsin is resourceful, smart, and special forces-trained, but she has an impossible mission. She must protect scientist, Gavin Shawlens, from assassination by the CIA, and discover a secret trapped in Gavin's mind that the CIA want destroyed.

As the pressure to find Shawlens escalates, the CIA send Zoe's former mentor to track her down, and her fate seems sealed when he surrounds Zoe and Gavin with a ring of steel.

With each hour that passes, the ring is tightened, and the window for discovering Gavin's secret will shut. Zoe is faced with a decision that goes against all her survival instincts. If she's wrong, they die. If she's right, she will discover the secret, and become the next target for assassination.


A Lambeth Group Thriller

About the author

Gordon Bickerstaff

Gordon Bickerstaff was born and raised in Glasgow but spent his student years in Edinburgh. On summer vacations, he learned plumbing, garden maintenance, and he cut the grass in the Meadows.
He learned some biochemistry and taught it for a while before he retired to write fiction. He does some aspects of DIY moderately well and other aspects not so well. He gets very tired when it's time to clean up the mess. He enjoys walking, 60s & 70s music, reading and travel.

​​​​​​​Gordon lives with his wife in the west of Scotland where corrupt academics, mystery, murder and intrigue exists mostly in his mind.
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​​​​​​​He writes the Lambeth Group series of thrillers featuring a secret government department who investigate specialist crimes and bioterrorism. The lead characters are former special forces captain, Zoe Tampsin, and consultant scientist, Dr Gavin Shawlens.