Simon Kernick

You step inside your house after a long, hard day at work and the phone rings. Your fourteen-year-old daughter has been taken and her kidnappers demand half a million pounds in cash. They give you 48 hours to raise the money and they warn you that if you call the police, she'll die. What's more, your husband is missing.

Alastair Sheridan has it all. Wealth, good looks, a beautiful wife and children and, in the chaotic world of British politics, a real chance of becoming Prime Minister. But Alastair also has a secret. He's a serial killer with a taste for young women. Only a handful of people know what kind of monster he is, and disgraced detective Ray Mason is one of them. Awaiting trial for murder, Ray is unexpectedly broken free by armed men and given an offer: assassinate Alastair Sheridan and begin a new life abroad with a new identity.

The men claim to be from MI6. They say that Sheridan is a threat to national security and needs to be neutralised. Ray knows they are not who they say they are, and that their real motives are far darker. With enemies on every side, only one thing is certain. No one wants them to get out alive.

Sean Egan has infiltrated a dangerous criminal gang who want him to abduct a serial killer, the Night Creeper, from police custody.

Max Iversson has been hired as security at a meeting arranged by Fowler who doesn't trust him. Max and two colleagues accompany Fowler to a deserted industrial estate. A journey which ends in a blood bath with three men dead. X rated, contains offensive language and graphic violence.