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Coming Soon: ‘An Avenging Angel is Born‘ & ‘Seeds of Dissent – Drew Parker VI‘
A Catalogue Of Deadly Errors (Drew Parker Book 5)
If to err is human. What do you call taking someone else’s mistake, ignoring the result, amplifying the error, and then repeating it? When a pair of sociopathic disinherited siblings set out on a nihilistic and greed motivated trail of revenge, without considering the potential consequences, the dominoes start to fall. But when the lives of the Parker-West family are threatened, it’s time for Drew Parker and his daughter to step up.
To Save A Mockingbird (Drew Parker Book 4)
A close protection officer taking a bullet while shielding their principal – a normal hazard of the trade. However, when a close friend is shot on a low paid contract and the shooter turns out to be one of their own, Drew Parker vows to catch him.
In so doing he unearths a conspiracy with far reaching international implications but the FBI dismiss his findings, and he’s forced to find ways to expose the plot without directly going head-to-head against the pariah state behind it.
A Dangerous Solitude
The dangers of a chosen life in a remote cabin off-grid in the Kentucky wilderness are much as they were in the days of the mountain men of an earlier age despite the technological benefits of modern hunting rifles, satellite phones, and construction machinery – scarce game, hunger, angry bears, and deep snow for starters – but a violent encounter in a bar sparks events that will endanger Brady Atkins’ life and that of the young girl who befriends him. In the end, other human beings including the police, offer by far the most lethal problems Brady must overcome if he’s to survive.
A stand alone novel exploring the back story of two characters that appear briefly in Keep Her Safe, the first in the Drew Parker series.
Revert To Type (Saffron Price Book 2)
After a failed attempt on his life, the discredited former CIA head of operations calls on the private investigator Saffron Price, once one of his most trusted field operatives, to expose what lay behind the attack.
Her subsequent enquiries pitch her against Russian agents and ruthless gangsters employed by the Kremlin. Unsurprisingly the body count mounts, but once again her own family are at risk as Saffron uncovers an intricate plot to unmask one the agency’s most valuable double agents.
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Wolf In The Hen-House (Saffron Price Book 1)
In the months leading up to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, three CIA field agents go missing and a double agent is suspected in the Kyiv embassy or the network of contacts used to gather intelligence. Desperate to uncover the traitor, the CIA commit a top European operative but after narrowing the list of suspects, Brett himself goes missing, and his eight-year-old son Ben is abducted from his Virginia home.
What the conspirators haven’t reckoned on are the consequences of unleashing the wrath of Brett’s wife, Ben’s mother, Saffron…
2025 winner of the Noose Award for best Crime Thriller novel.
Revenge Ain’t Sweet (Drew Parker Book 3)
After receiving confirmation of the death of Manos Stamelis, Drew Parker thinks any risks his family’s nemesis posed are now in the past. Then a phone call from Stamelis’ daughter kickstarts a bizarre series of deadly events motivated by vengeance and greed. At the centre of the modern-day treasure hunt that follows is a psychopath Drew has never heard of, and once again he, Anna and Cassie are in the cross hairs. Unsure who their friends are, even their closest allies must come under suspicion.
Fetch Them Home (Drew Parker Book 2)
Drew Parker’s adoptive 15-year-old daughter Cassie and her friend have been kidnapped on a Canadian road trip. It may be a straightforward criminal abduction for ransom but as the body count mounts, it seems law enforcement agencies might not want Parker’s rescue attempts to succeed and that other nefarious motives are in play.
The sequel to ‘Keep Her Safe’, the first thriller featuring the former Delta Force operator turned close body protection officer.
Keep Her Safe (Drew Parker Book 1)
Disillusioned by missions of dubious legitimacy, Drew Parker, a Delta Force veteran puts in his papers.
Unable to find new employment. he finally joins a crack team hired to protect an English multi-millionaire and her daughter – simple enough, compared to being part of a full-scale war.
Except that he now faces unidentifiable enemies and deadly risks at every turn.
His life has never been more endangered. How can he save his charges and still survive?
Into Africa: Fire & Neglect
Why does mankind so often fail to learn from disaster? In June 1994 a fire in a Tanzanian school killed forty-three children and a request was made to the British government that a senior fire officer be sent out to investigate the cause of the blaze and the lessons which could be learned. To Colin Mardell’s disgust his report was shelved and nothing ever changed as a consequence of his work. Such fires continue unnecessarily to kill children and families not just in Africa but around the world wherever poverty and ignorance are rife. Thus sadly Mardell’s account is still of considerable relevance nearly thirty years later.
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