Terence Strong

Ex-Royal Marine commando Billy Robson is determined to go straight after serving a five-year sentence for robbery. Anxious to make things up to his family, he takes the one legitimate job on offer - only to find that he's inadvertently stepping into a fresh nightmare. He finds himself in a desperate fight for his freedom, his family - and his life. Against an evil force of corruption, addiction and perversion that consumes all before it.

Former intelligence officer and one-time instructor at the British Army School of Sniping, Phil Mason is struggling to make ends meet as a private investigator when he's contacted by his former M15 liaison officer. The overstretched security service needs all the help it can get hunting down members of al-Qaeda terror cells in the UK - and Mason needs the cash. But in the murky intelligence world of smoke and mirrors, nothing is what it seems. As a routine surveillance operation escalates into a full-blown international crisis, Mason must come to terms with the unthinkable: there must be a traitor within Britain's security forces.

Dave Aston, a member of the elite British SAS, has returned home from Afghanistan to an alien civilian life of bad dreams and bad people. Down and out, with a broken body and a damaged soul, everything is lost: his marriage, his home and his self-respect. But is he too far down to fight back against a new evil force at work in his own back yard?

Tom Harrison has the most dangerous job in Britain: defusing terrorist bombs. His skill is being tested to the limit by a new IRA bombing campaign, each device more deadly and more difficult for him to neutralise. It's almost as if someone is testing him, trying to find his limits, as he is pitched into a very personal battle - a fight where just one small mistake will be his last.

The British government is worried. Rumours have spread about a new monster in the Irish terrorist movement: a ruthless team of American special forces mercenaries. The top secret order goes out: seek and destroy - no matter where. For the Sabre team this will be their toughest ever assignment...probing the inner sanctum of the IRA's terror machine, fighting in the bloody carnage of Ulster. Never before has so much been at stake. They encounter triumph and disaster - and the cruellest twist of fate.