It's a cold November night, and DS Dennis Milne is waiting to kill three unarmed men. Cynical and jaded, Milne earns money on the side by doing what he does best: punishing the bad guys. But he's been set up. This time, instead of shooting drug dealers, he kills two customs officers and an accountant. The hunter has become the hunted. With his colleagues and his enemies closing in on him, Milne must use all of his skills, just to stay alive.

'We've got your daughter.' It's evening, you're back late from work - and the house is in darkness. You step inside, and the phone rings. You answer it - and your world turns upside down. Your fourteen-year-old daughter's been taken, and her kidnappers demand half a million pounds in cash. They give you 48 hours to raise the money, and warn you that if you call the police, she'll die. Trying desperately to remain calm, you realise that your husband - the man you married only two years previously - is also missing. But he can't be involved in your daughter's abduction. Or can he? As your nightmare begins, you can be certain of only two things: that you will do anything to get your daughter back alive - and that time is running out ...

When Operation Surgical Strike goes horribly wrong, suspicion quickly falls on one of the officers involved: Stegs Jenner. No ordinary undercover cop, Stegs is a man who's always lived life on the edge. Now he decides to go it alone. DI John Gallan and his partner DS Tina Boyd are part of the subsequent investigation to bring Stegs to justice. What they cannot know is that their enquiries will take both of them into the heart of one of London's most notorious criminal gangs - and one of them into the rifle sights of the enemy.

It seems easy money, but the deal ex-mercenary Max Iversson is chasing has gone disastrously wrong. Two of his friends are dead. And now he wants to find out who’s behind their killings. Detective Sergeant John Gallan is also looking for answers. He’s investigating the fatal poisoning of a nightclub doorman. But leads are scarce and, when they do appear, so do bodies. As Iversson struggles to stay alive, Gallan keeps on digging, unearthing in the process a shocking crime that’s been unsolved for a long, long time. What neither man knows is that they are heading towards a devastating confrontation that will see one of them staring down the wrong end of a gun

As you wake up in a room on a bed covered in blood of your girlfriend, the phone rings and a voice tells you to press play on the room's DVD machine. The film shows you killing your girlfriend. Then you're told to go to an address in East London where you're to deliver a briefcase and await further instructions. There's no way out.

Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!
Harlan Coben


It’s cold, it’s December – and ex-cop Dennis Milne is intent on revenge.

His best friend has been brutally executed, and Milne wants to know who did it – and why.

But London is a dangerous place, especially for a man on his own.

And although his former colleagues don’t know Milne’s back in town, it soon becomes clear there are people who do. And that they’ll stop at nothing to get him out of the way.

From the beaches of the Philippines to the mean streets of London, a hunt for justice becomes a terrifying battle for survival.

Great plots, great characters, great action.
Lee Child