title: Absence of Light: A Charlie Fox Novella (Charlie Fox Thriller)
author:  Zoe Sharp 
description: <span><span>Zo Sharp is a British crime writer best known for the "Charlie Fox" thriller series, which she started writing after receiving death threats in the course of her work as a photojournalist. She lives in the English Lake District. </span></span>
zlib_text: **FOX FIVE**
  
  **a Charlie Fox short story collection**  
    
  **by**
  
  **Zoë Sharp**
  
    
  
   _For Andy, Derek, and Jane,_
  
    
  
   _the people who made this happen_
  
    
    
  
  This e-thology was gently coerced into the digital domain by the book-loving
  geeks at
  
    
  
  [ _www.ZACE-eBookConversion.com_](http://www.ZACE-eBookConversion.com)
  
    
  
  Cover design by [_www.NuDesign.co_](http://www.NuDesign.co)
  
    
    
  
  [ _www.ZoeSharp.com_](http://www.ZoeSharp.com)
  
    
    
  
   **Fox Five** is a collection of stories by the highly acclaimed crime
  thriller writer, Zoë Sharp. All feature her ex-Special Forces soldier turned
  self-defence expert and bodyguard, Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Fox.
  
    
  
   _‘Ill-tempered, aggressive and borderline psychotic, Fox is also
  compassionate, introspective and highly principled; arguably one of the most
  enigmatic − and coolest − heroines in contemporary genre fiction.’ Paul Goat
  Allen,_ _ **Chicago Tribune**_
  
    
  
  In **A Bridge Too Far** , we meet Charlie before she’s become a professional