Today I’m pleased to welcome Mason Cross to the blog. Mason is the author of The Killing Season and The Samaritan and his latest novel to feature Carter Blake, The Time to Kill, was published by Orion on 30 June 2016.

Mason kindly answered a few of my questions.

1. Tell us a little about The Time to Kill

In the first two books (The Killing Season and The Samaritan), we found out that Carter Blake is a skilled freelance manhunter with a murky past in a classified special operations unit. In The Time to Kill, that past catches up with him. 

Blake receives an email attachment of an Interpol black notice showing an unidentified man found dead in the Siberian wilderness. He used to work with the man, and he realizes his former colleagues are sending him a message: he’s next. 

From there, it’s a race against time as Blake…