Books
Overkill
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The first of my current series of novels - Overkill - was published as
a hardback for the UK market and as a trade paperback for export (cover design
for both editions above left) by Macmillan in August 2004.
Even before the contract with Macmillan had been agreed, the book was
purchased by Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH (Germany), and was released as
Operation Overkill by them in August 2004 (cover design above centre left). Between signing with Macmillan and
publication of the United Kingdom edition, the book was also sold to Uitgeverij
De Fontein in Holland (where it was published as Operatie Overkill in October 2004
- cover design above centre right)
and to Futami Shobo in Japan (published in 2006 in two volumes - cover design
for the pair above right).
Links for the European editions of these books are:
Overkill hardback English version (Amazon.co.uk)
Overkill paperback German version (Amazon.de)
Overkill
paperback Dutch version (Crimezone.nl)
The cover for the open-market (world-wide English-language edition) and
mass-market (United Kingdom edition) paperbacks is above. The open-market
edition was released in January 2005 and the mass-market edition appeared on 17 June
2005, supported by various bookshop promotions, including Waterstones, Books
Etc (Airport), W H Smith and Amazon (UK), and a poster campaign. The poster is shown below,
and was positioned at around two hundred locations country-wide.
The link for this book is:
Overkill paperback English version (Amazon.co.uk)
This is the jacket blurb:
'The
Cold War may be over, but the Russian arsenal of nuclear weapons is still in
place. And when an emissary from an international terrorist group makes a
disaffected Russian minister an offer he just can’t refuse, the very survival of
America hangs in the balance.
America and Europe have been seeded with nuclear weapons, strategically located
in the centres of major cities, by a group of renegade Russians and their
secretive Arab allies. The Russian intentions are clear, but why are the Arabs
involved and what do they want?
Maverick trouble-shooter Paul Richter finds himself up against a
mastermind determined to bomb America back into the Stone Age. Caught up in a
tense battle of wits and bullets, he only realises the full horror that is about
to be unleashed on the world as the attack on the West begins.
But Richter is the only man with the knowledge and the ability to
stop it. And time is running out.'
Pandemic
The second book - Pandemic - was published in hardback on 17 June 2005,
at the same time as the mass-market paperback version of Overkill. This book
was also been purchased by Uitgeverij De Fontein for release on the Dutch market
in autumn 2005 (cover design above centre) and by Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH for German release in 2006
(cover design above right). The cover image
for the UK hardback version is above left.
The link for this book is:
Pandemic paperback English version (Amazon.co.uk)
This is the jacket blurb:
'Off
the Mediterranean island of Crete an unlicensed diver, operating illegally, finds the thirty-year old wreck of an
executive jet lying dismembered on the seabed. From its resting place amongst
the corpses still strapped in their seats he recovers a steel
case containing four heavily sealed vacuum flasks. The rogue diver manages to cut one of them
open ... and
within twelve hours he has succumbed to a hideous death.
Trouble-shooter agent Paul
Richter is less than impressed when delegated to investigate the source of the
mysterious killer, but his curiosity is piqued as he begins to encounter
far more questions than answers.
Why
has the CIA issued a Priority One directive requiring total destruction of the aircraft's
remnants? Why is a hit team roaming Crete to eliminate anyone with knowledge of the
missing flasks? Who
is now picking off members of this hit team itself? And why are seemingly
harmless retired agents back in America also getting professionally eliminated?
As
Richter gets ever closer
to unravelling a decades-old secret, even he is unprepared for the sheer horror of
the truth that is about to be violently disclosed.'
Foxbat
The link for this book is:
Foxbat paperback edition (Amazon.co.uk)
This is the jacket blurb:
'A mysteriously empty aircraft hangar in the middle of
Algeria. The crash of a transport plane in northern Russia. A violent
robbery at a disused airfield in Bulgaria. The body of a front-line
Russian fighter pilot found shot dead, execution-style, in the woods
outside Perm.
A series of apparently unconnected events leads
trouble-shooter Paul Richter to Moscow, where his old adversary Viktor
Bykov needs his help. The Russian government has a problem. They're
calling it `inventory errors', but the truth is that someone's been
stealing their MiG-25 Foxbats, and they've no idea who, or why.
On the other side of the world, alarm bells ring in the
USA when North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile. But
it's only when the Americans begin to mobilise their forces that the
full extent of the threat becomes clear.
And Richter finds himself back in the pilot's seat of a Harrier over
North Korea, fighting his way past surface-to-air missiles and dodging
supersonic interceptors to complete his mission before Seoul is
destroyed by a devastating chemical weapon attack.'
Timebomb
The link for this book is:
Timebomb hardback edition (Amazon.co.uk)
This is the jacket blurb:
'What should have been a routine arrest turns into a bloody shoot-out near
Geneva that leaves four terrorists and four policeman dead, and Richter on the
run from a murder charge.
Closer to home, an old tramp is viciously murdered on the Isle of Sheppey.
Then
a surveillance operation in Stuttgart goes badly wrong when someone tips off the
terrorists that the police are closing in.
As
Richter looks for some connection between these widely separated events, he
discovers a diabolical plot intended to devastate the City of London and leave
thousands dead. A plot that will combine the world's largest ever non-nuclear
explosion with the power of the sea to deadly effect.
As
the tension mounts, Richter finds himself pitted against both a vicious and
highly experienced professional terrorist and a ruthless gang of international
criminals.
But
the identity of the mastermind comes as a shock to everyone.'
