The Mentor

Jack Higgins meets ‘Spooks’ in Steve Jackson’s explosive debut novel. They say lightning never strikes twice. They’re wrong. Once again London is the victim of an explosive and horrifying attack, but this time the enemy is much closer to home. Paul Aston, a young MI6 agent, is sent to investigate. But nothing could have prepared him for the scenes of horror and devastation he sees. Images that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Slowly, Aston tears away the layers of corruption, betrayal and murder to reveal the real culprit — someone who knows every trick in the book because he’s played every one of them. Someone that has a deep seething hatred of MI6 and will stop at nothing until his enemies are brought to their knees. He is The Mentor.

Run the Risk

This is a fast-paced, furious read. In Run The Risk Scott Frost delivers an exciting and explosive debut novel featuring Lieutenant Alex Delillo. Lieutentant Alex Delillo is at her wits’ end, her teenage daugher is playing up and her workload is backing up. A local shopkeeper is shot to death and an explosion almost kills her partner. When the prime suspect in the homicide dies in an elaborate suicide car bomb, Delillo is led to one man, an elaborate and skilled bomber, eager to play a game with potentially devastating consequences. As Alex tracks her prey, he strikes at Alex’s heart and takes the one person that she holds dear, Lacy, her daughter. Alex must use all her skills, training and knowledge to track the killer and find Lacy, but as the clock ticks downs, the terror escalates and Alex is led to a fiery showdown where she will be forced to make a choice that will change her life forever.

The Third Woman

In a world where everyone and everything has its price, who do you trust? The Third Woman is a powerful and fascinating thriller following the adventures of Burnell’s unique heroine Stephanie Patrick. From conspiracy to terrorism, Vienna to Paris, will she find the truth? The world isn’t run by governments. It’s run by corporations. In other words, everything and everyone has a price. Stephanie Patrick operates under a number of names; Petra Reuter, known as a gun for hire, is probably the one she uses most frequently. She used to work for the government. Now she works for herself. Robert Newman, who spends more nights at 35,000 feet than in his own bed, is an international troubleshooter. But 20 years at the top have still not purged for him the ghosts of the past. A plea for help from an old friend draws Stephanie to Paris, where she narrowly survives a terrorist attack, an outrage that according to the authorities was masterminded by Reuter. Betrayed in every way, pursued ruthlessly by a faceless enemy, her identity stolen from her, Stephanie seizes a hostage to give her a slim possibility of escape. But is the encounter with Newman really just chance?

Relentless

An unputdownable race-against-time thrilller from the rising star of British crime-writing. John Meron, a happily married father of two who’s never been in trouble, receives a phone call that will change his life for ever: his friend Jack Calley, a high-flying City lawyer, is screaming down the phone for help. As Meron listens, Calley is murdered. His last words, spoken to his killer, are the first two lines of Meron’s address. Confused and terrified, Meron scoops up his children and hurries out of the house. Just in time. Within minutes, a car pulls up outside, and three men get out. It’s clear that they’re coming for him. He’s being hunted and has no idea why. And with his wife missing, an unidentified corpse in her office, and the police after him for murder, his life’s about to get one hell of a lot worse.

Ultimate Weapon

This book features three people, three stories, and a desperate race for survival in a country in the midst of war. Nick Scott fought in the SAS during the first Gulf War. Captured and tortured, he was left a broken man. His daughter, Sarah Scott is a young scientist who has cracked one of the scientific secrets of the age. Now, she has vanished. Her lover, Jed Bradley is one of the SAS’s toughest young agents, dropped behind enemy lines in the build up to the Iraq War to find the truth about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Caught up in a global power play, Nick and Jed must fight their way through a war-ravaged Iraq as the regime of Hussein collapses around them. It is a desperate race to find the woman they both love, and to unlock the secret of the Ultimate Weapon.