Russell Boulter

Jungle-skilled, silent and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless when his two eldest daughters had been raped and killed by Thai pirates. Now, quiet and hard-working he was building up his South London take-away business. Until the day his wife and youngest daughter were destroyed by an IRA bomb. Which was when the Chinaman, denied justice, decided on revenge...and went back to war.

AD 46. Roman centurions Cato and Macro have been posted to Judaea to restore the loyalty of the officers. But Bannus, a local tribesman, is brewing up trouble amongst the religious followers of Jehoshua and preaching violent opposition to Rome. As the revolt grows in scale, Macro and Cato must stamp out corruption in the cohort before the eastern provinces are lost to the Empire forever. 

Centurions Macro and Cato, dismissed from the Second Legion in Britain, are trapped in Rome. But then the imperial secretary, the devious Narcissus, makes them an offer they can't refuse - to recover from pirates a set of scrolls that hold secrets vital to the future of the Roman Empire. Rome will do anything to get them back.

Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The gruesome death of a childhood friend leads Erica to team up with a local detective to find answers. What truths will emerge about this small town with a deeply disturbing past?

When Scribbleboy vanished without warning most of his scribbles were destroyed. Only the Scribbleboy Fan Club kept his legend alive.