Whilst escaping from the police an elite gang known as The Phantoms callously kill an innocent family which brings them into contact with Lee Kemble, a Special Operations Operative and relative of the murdered people, who had been specifically chosen to find and eliminate them. He soon learns that he has not been told everything and finds that there is more to the case than was first thought for in the grounds of each of the houses robbed by The Phantoms the police had found a corpse, and the murdered people all had similar and unusual burn marks to their bodies. As Kemble gets closer to the...

When he learns of the death of an old friend Matt Shepherd decides to attend the funeral service despite having been out of the country for over twenty years following an operation in Helsinki to recover stolen NATO documents which had nearly gone disastrously wrong because of his serious error of judgement. That together with the death of his wife whilst away had resulted in him questioning his capabilities and priorities and resigning he had walked away from his old life and friends preferring his own company and the occasional bottle. Whilst at the crematorium he meets up with Don Collins...

London: January 1958. During the past two and a half years a serial killer has been roaming the streets of London torturing his victims by slicing off their left ear before ritually disembowelling them. Detective Inspector Neil Goddard, a lonely man who has never really got over the death of his fiancee in 1951 and assigned to catch the murderer is woken early one morning to be told that another body has been found but to his surprise learns that it is actually the killer himself. Identification is soon established but investigations into what turned the man into such a callous monster and to...

Carol Davis is mourning the death of her fiancee in a car crash and is visited in bizarre circumstances by his brother Greg Farrell who convinces her that the death was not an accident but murder. It appears that in his work as an investigative journalist he was getting close to uncovering a conspiracy in which an eminent M.P. Sir Henry Marshall was heavily involved. Greg Farrell knows more than he is willing to share with Davis, not least that a pair of internationally renowned killers, The Retaliators, have been hired to carry out a double assignation on high ranking officials. Although...

The discovery of a skeleton in a drainage tunnel during a routine demolition of an old tin mine on the Walden Estate in Devon and the army dog tag around its neck sets Joanne Thompson off on a search to try and find out the identity of the man and the reasons for him being entombed in the tunnel. Learning that he disappeared soon after the end of the First World War, during which he undertook many dangerous missions, one of which involved an action behind enemy lines in Palestine in 1917, the trail leads her to David Sumner, the great grandson of the dead man. Between them they try to unravel...

After a number of years working for a British clandestine organisation as an operative licensed to kill Brad Spelling has finally decided to call time on his employment and in his own words wants to live a normal life without looking down the barrel of a sniper's rifle. After his last operation in Turkey he tries to hand in his resignation which is partially accepted by his mentor but only on the proviso that he will reassess his options in six months time when, if he then still wants to go nobody would stand in his way. Although adamant that he will not change his mind Spelling has to agree...

Steve Gibbs was what was generally called 'A Fixer.' If you wanted something sorted out he was the man who people called in. He was good at his job, being discreet yet successful, was well respected by his clients and proficient in getting the required results. When his wife became ill after a car accident he gave everything up and vowed never to go back to that way of living but after her death found it hard to find anything to stimulate him so when an unexpected visitor called with a request for his help he decided to do one more job: - that way he would know where his future lay. After...

Full Moon Killer London January 1960. The murder of a man at the beginning of the year at first glance appears to be a simple case for DCI Neil Goddard and his team to investigate but they are confused because inside the victims mouth is a slip of paper with strange markings and the letter A at its centre. When a month later another man is not only killed in the same manner but also has a similar slip of paper in his mouth, this time with a different letter Goddard realises that there is a double murderer roaming the streets of London. The case suddenly becomes personal when a letter...

London: March 1966. Despite not being fully fit Detective Chief Inspector Neil Goddard is called back early from sick leave to find the killer of a man found viciously beaten around the head by an unusual weapon in the grounds of Oddhams House where an important conference on Rhodesia and its Unilateral Declaration of Independence is scheduled to begin in a few weeks. In order to guarantee the safety of the delegates and to ensure that there is no link with the dead man he is tasked with solving the case as a matter of urgency before the press get to hear of it, especially as attached to the...