The first in a new crime series set in Britain in the late 1930s. 

Max is an impecunious journalist married to Martha, the daughter of a wealthy family who disapprove of their son-in-law. Max discovers members of his old platoon from Passchendaele are being knocked off one by one. With the police believing Max is the murderer, he’s forced to go on the run (with his very capable wife) to solve the murder. Will he solve the crime or will the murderer or Police get to him first?

With humour, style, a fair amount of reckless foolishness, and the help of Winston Churchill, they uncover Nazi sympathisers in the British High Command.

This is an action-packed caper, cleverly plotted with engaging characters.

Massive, glowering, and ugly as death, former soldier and ex-boxer Joe has always invited violence. But now Hackney's most vicious gangs all want to kill him. Why?As he tries to unravel the knot of events that have made him a target, Joe is drawn back into his past, back to the memory of the only woman he ever loved. Brenda was a prostitute who dreamed of something better. Now she's dead, and her murder, unsolved, haunts Joe every night.Then a twelve year old runaway enters his life. Kid is traumatised, mute, and sees Joe as her saviour. Life has made Joe a machine. Can Kid - as Brenda once did - make him human again?This taut thriller about betrayal, vengeance and redemption will grab you by the throat from the very first line.About the AuthorPhillip Hunter has a degree in English Literature from Middlesex University and an MA in Screenwriting form the London Institute. He was part of the team that sequenced the human genome.

To Joe, injured and broken, it seems as if the whole of east London is at war. But until he recovers from the knife wound that nearly killed him, he can't join the fight. He is running out of time to track down the men who killed the only woman he ever loved.But revenge is what drives him. Either they die, or he does.There's only one way to find out...

Ex-boxer, ex-paratrooper, Joe once had meaning in his life. People who cared for him, people who needed him. Then he lost everything, and now he is a hitman for London's most vicious criminals.Brenda was the only woman who ever loved him. The only woman who believed he could escape the underworld. She died protecting others: now Joe wants revenge on her killers. With nothing left to lose, Joe prepares for the fight of his life...This is a poignant thriller about love, revenge and redemption from a superb new voice in British crime.