In a world steeped in darkness, a new breed of evil has fallen...
London's ruined economy has pushed everyone to the breaking point, and even the police rely on bribes and deals with criminals to survive. Detective Inspector Cass Jones struggles to keep integrity in the police force, but now, two gory cases will test his mettle. A gang hit goes wrong, leaving two schoolboys dead, and a serial killer calling himself the Man of Flies leaves a message on his victims saying "nothing is sacred."
Then Cass' brother murders his own family before committing suicide. Cass doesn't...

The tables have turned, and now Detective Inspector Cass Jones is a wanted man on the streets of London. Framed for murder and hunted by his former colleagues, Cass needs every ally he can get including a very unexpected figure from his past.
While detectives Hask and Ramsey search for the killer behind the lethal Strain II virus, Mr. Bright continues to pull strings from the shadows, and there are dire warnings of a final battle that could tear everything apart.
As he searches for his kidnapped nephew while eluding his own pursuers, Cass is determined to find the answers even if he...

The author of the diabolically clever * "A Matter of Blood "returns with another gritty supernatural thriller featuring hard-boiled homicide detective Cass Jones
A devastating terrorist attack has crippled London. To find a perpetrator who is more than human, Special Branch turns to Detective Inspector Cass Jones.
Cass is already investigating a series of student suicides, but saying no to Special Branch isn t an option even when he s hit with a much more personal and deeply disturbing mystery: a message left for him by his murdered brother revealing that Cass s nephew was stolen at...

LIFE CAME OUT OF AFRICA... But now it's death's turn... It spreads like a plague but it's not a disease. Medical science is helpless against the deadly autoimmune reaction caused by the bite of the swarming African flies. Billions are dead, more are dying. Across the world, governments are falling, civilization is crumbling, and everywhere those still alive fear the death carried in the skies. Some say the flies are a freak mutation, others say they're man made, but as hope of beating them fades, most turn to the only comfort left and see the plague as God's will. He sent a deadly deluge the...

"Story Behind the Book: Volume 5" collects over 40 essays about writing and editing fiction by some of the finest contemporary authors. These essays reveal vibrant and tumultuous relationship between the author and its work, and candidly explore the process of putting the story together. Includes essays by Sarah Pinborough, J.M. Sidorova, Rod Rees, Dara Horn, Lesley McDowell, David Rain, Kim Lakin Smith, Charlaine Harris, Brian Freeman, Claude Lalumiere, Charlie Lovett, Paul Witcover, Ariel Djanikian, Christopher Brookmyre, Simon Ings, Simon Morden, Michael Gruber, Ian McDonald, J. Sydney...