--- product_id: 125193010 title: "Cold Shot: A Novel (a Jonathan Burke/Kyra Stryker Thriller)" price: "KD 6.00" currency: KWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/125193010-cold-shot-a-novel-a-jonathan-burke-kyra-stryker-thriller store_origin: KW region: Kuwait --- # Cold Shot: A Novel (a Jonathan Burke/Kyra Stryker Thriller) **Price:** KD 6.00 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Cold Shot: A Novel (a Jonathan Burke/Kyra Stryker Thriller) - **How much does it cost?** KD 6.00 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.kw](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/125193010-cold-shot-a-novel-a-jonathan-burke-kyra-stryker-thriller) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Cold Shot: A Novel (a Jonathan Burke/Kyra Stryker Thriller) - Kindle edition by Henshaw, Mark. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Cold Shot: A Novel (a Jonathan Burke/Kyra Stryker Thriller). Review: Excellent. Can't wait for the next installment. - Mark Henshaw, if you're reading this, please stop now... and get working on your next book. I loved Red Cell, and I love Cold Shot even more. Henshaw's books combine the best of Clancy spy technography with Bernard Cornwell-esque action. His main characters are more rounded and interesting than the typical vigilante super heroes common to the espionage/thriller genre. Those other books are fun in a "rah rah red meat" kind of way, but Henshaw's two main characters, Stryker and Burke, are a little more sophisticated and real. Authenticity of detail oozes from every scene, and the action is exciting and plausible. With Red Cell, Henshaw enlightened us to the threat posed by China, which no other writer has done so well. With Cold Shot we are exposed to Iran's nuclear ambitions in the western hemisphere, working in concert with a post-Chavez Venezuelan government. Kyra Stryker and Jonathan Burke must uncover the plot. And then they are roped into stopping it. This is the first book in a long while that was compelling enough to keep me up long past my bedtime Review: Spies with Brains - Your Library Card Has Expired By Bob Gelms I have this “thing” about reading authors chronologically, especially thriller writers who have recurring characters. These days writers and publishers have learned that the reading public who come late to the party, might not want to buy the first three books in a series if they all depend on the previous installments to understand the current episode. Almost all writers these days who have recurring characters and write a series, write the books in a standalone way so you do not have to have read the previous books to understand what is going on in the current one. When I come late to the party, as I have in the case of Glenn Cooper, I always wonder what the early books are like, in particular the very first one. Debut novels are so important. A writer spends his whole life writing the first novel and then gets a year, maybe a year and a half, to write the second one. In my limited view of the literary world, I find debut novels most interesting. Such is the case with Mr. Cooper. After I read Mr. Cooper’s fourth and fifth novels, I couldn’t resist the temptation to go back to his first book, Library of the Dead. This book is where Will Piper is introduced to the public. Piper has a three book run but this is the first one. It’s a barrel of fun. Will Piper is disgusting. He is a womanizing drunkard but at the same time, and you know there is always an “at the same time,” he is the best serial killer profiler in the FBI. He is just a few years away from retirement and has contracted retire-itis. Then, along comes the Doomsday Killer. This killer sends a postcard with the drawing of a casket and the date of death to the intended victim. There is one big catch. None of the victims are related to each other in any way. The ways in which they died have no relation to one another. There is neither evidence of one single killer nor any killer for that matter. The FBI agent who was assigned to the case, Agent Mueller, had a stroke and Will Piper is reluctantly assigned by his supervisor to take over. She thinks Piper is over-the-hill and too soaked in booze to be of any use anymore so she assigns a newbie agent, Nancy Lipinski, to get him over the rough spots. Nancy is familiar with the case as she was assigned to it with Agent Mueller. Do me a favor and suspend your disbelief when reading this because there is one surprising revelation after another. There was an earth-shattering discovery by a group of British soldiers right after WWII on the Isle of Wight under an ancient monastery at Victus. The monks there in the 8th century had made an astonishing discovery about one of the residents. In 1947, Winston Churchill turns over the find to Harry Truman who has it stored in Area 51. Then the Doomsday killer starts his spree in 2009. All these events are related and I developed a compulsion to keep turning the pages. The book has a fulfilling ending. It also points to the future. It takes on somewhat of a supernatural bent that I found interesting not objectionable. There is a compelling discussion throughout about fate and predestination that is driven by the events of the story so there is a bit of a theological bent to the whole thing as well. It is getting cold out at night and soon you will be stoking the fireplace and I can’t think of a better book to read by a roaring fire with an adult beverage than Library of the Dead. I am now on the hunt for books two and three in the series, The Book of Souls and The Keepers of the Library. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00DPM7TRW | | Accessibility | Learn more | | Best Sellers Rank | #1,156,165 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #2,272 in Assassination Thrillers (Kindle Store) #2,404 in Terrorism Thrillers (Kindle Store) #3,130 in Terrorism Thrillers (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (814) | | Edition | Reissue | | Enhanced typesetting | Enabled | | File size | 5.8 MB | | ISBN-13 | 978-1476745657 | | Language | English | | Page Flip | Enabled | | Print length | 417 pages | | Publication date | May 20, 2014 | | Publisher | Gallery Books | | Screen Reader | Supported | | Word Wise | Enabled | | X-Ray | Not Enabled | ## Images ![Cold Shot: A Novel (a Jonathan Burke/Kyra Stryker Thriller) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8165+6GM6UL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent. Can't wait for the next installment. *by S***I on May 30, 2014* Mark Henshaw, if you're reading this, please stop now... and get working on your next book. I loved Red Cell, and I love Cold Shot even more. Henshaw's books combine the best of Clancy spy technography with Bernard Cornwell-esque action. His main characters are more rounded and interesting than the typical vigilante super heroes common to the espionage/thriller genre. Those other books are fun in a "rah rah red meat" kind of way, but Henshaw's two main characters, Stryker and Burke, are a little more sophisticated and real. Authenticity of detail oozes from every scene, and the action is exciting and plausible. With Red Cell, Henshaw enlightened us to the threat posed by China, which no other writer has done so well. With Cold Shot we are exposed to Iran's nuclear ambitions in the western hemisphere, working in concert with a post-Chavez Venezuelan government. Kyra Stryker and Jonathan Burke must uncover the plot. And then they are roped into stopping it. This is the first book in a long while that was compelling enough to keep me up long past my bedtime ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spies with Brains *by R***S on November 16, 2015* Your Library Card Has Expired By Bob Gelms I have this “thing” about reading authors chronologically, especially thriller writers who have recurring characters. These days writers and publishers have learned that the reading public who come late to the party, might not want to buy the first three books in a series if they all depend on the previous installments to understand the current episode. Almost all writers these days who have recurring characters and write a series, write the books in a standalone way so you do not have to have read the previous books to understand what is going on in the current one. When I come late to the party, as I have in the case of Glenn Cooper, I always wonder what the early books are like, in particular the very first one. Debut novels are so important. A writer spends his whole life writing the first novel and then gets a year, maybe a year and a half, to write the second one. In my limited view of the literary world, I find debut novels most interesting. Such is the case with Mr. Cooper. After I read Mr. Cooper’s fourth and fifth novels, I couldn’t resist the temptation to go back to his first book, Library of the Dead. This book is where Will Piper is introduced to the public. Piper has a three book run but this is the first one. It’s a barrel of fun. Will Piper is disgusting. He is a womanizing drunkard but at the same time, and you know there is always an “at the same time,” he is the best serial killer profiler in the FBI. He is just a few years away from retirement and has contracted retire-itis. Then, along comes the Doomsday Killer. This killer sends a postcard with the drawing of a casket and the date of death to the intended victim. There is one big catch. None of the victims are related to each other in any way. The ways in which they died have no relation to one another. There is neither evidence of one single killer nor any killer for that matter. The FBI agent who was assigned to the case, Agent Mueller, had a stroke and Will Piper is reluctantly assigned by his supervisor to take over. She thinks Piper is over-the-hill and too soaked in booze to be of any use anymore so she assigns a newbie agent, Nancy Lipinski, to get him over the rough spots. Nancy is familiar with the case as she was assigned to it with Agent Mueller. Do me a favor and suspend your disbelief when reading this because there is one surprising revelation after another. There was an earth-shattering discovery by a group of British soldiers right after WWII on the Isle of Wight under an ancient monastery at Victus. The monks there in the 8th century had made an astonishing discovery about one of the residents. In 1947, Winston Churchill turns over the find to Harry Truman who has it stored in Area 51. Then the Doomsday killer starts his spree in 2009. All these events are related and I developed a compulsion to keep turning the pages. The book has a fulfilling ending. It also points to the future. It takes on somewhat of a supernatural bent that I found interesting not objectionable. There is a compelling discussion throughout about fate and predestination that is driven by the events of the story so there is a bit of a theological bent to the whole thing as well. It is getting cold out at night and soon you will be stoking the fireplace and I can’t think of a better book to read by a roaring fire with an adult beverage than Library of the Dead. I am now on the hunt for books two and three in the series, The Book of Souls and The Keepers of the Library. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book has super glue on the cover - pick it up and you can't put it down *by W***N on June 4, 2014* I started reading this at 5 p.m. and finished it at 3:30 a.m. This book wouldn't let me put it down -- even for dinner. Cold Shot starts with a bang - literally. From the streets of an Iraqi town to the tarmac of a Venezuelan airport, the story flows at an ever-faster pace as two CIA analysts-turned-field-agents race to prevent a nuclear-tipped showdown. But unlike too many stories where "only one person can save the world," Jon and Kyra have literally thousands of helpers, seen and unseen, to guide them on their desperation mission. How that help is deployed is part of the fun of this story. Author Mark Henshaw is a consummate storyteller with a delightful sense of humor that appears at just the right places. His characters are well-drawn and complete, his plot is highly believable, and he shows an understanding of the way politics are played -- both in the US and elsewhere -- that could make some wonder if his lineage doesn't have a Machiavelli hidden in it somewhere. Cold Shot is a great book on its own. But if you get a chance to read Henshaw's Red Cell first, you will be doubly rewarded. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/125193010-cold-shot-a-novel-a-jonathan-burke-kyra-stryker-thriller](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/125193010-cold-shot-a-novel-a-jonathan-burke-kyra-stryker-thriller) --- *Product available on Desertcart Kuwait* *Store origin: KW* *Last updated: 2026-05-19*