Iraq veteran Cal Winter, cashiered from the British army for assault, has a secret.
It leads to his blackmail, and employment as an assassin for an organisation known as The Firm. Only five years more service doing deniable wet-work will see him walk away free.
Cal is assigned to protect Russian oligarch Sergei Belov, a billionaire dissident who made his name whistle-blowing on the cover-up of a nuclear accident in the 1990s. Now Sergei is the patron of a South African internet crusader, Van Basten, who has access to classified Russian intelligence which he intends to leak on the internet. And in this case, ‘protection’ means assassinating an elite Russian FSB commando team using a criminal network for cover.
As attempts are made on Belov’s life, Winter and his rag-tag team of ex-veterans uncover a plot hatched in the darkest recesses of the deadly Russian intelligence machine. There are many who wish Sergei Belov dead, and as the body count rises The Firm are drawn into violent action on the streets of London and in the icy English countryside.
From the Ukraine, to London to Central Russia, it would seem that intelligence agencies of every stripe will stop at nothing to access the information Belov has uncovered, leading to a bloody, horrific end-game for Cal Winter. Amazon
A war-blighted African state, in thrall to the Chinese…
A rogue British security contractor, captured freelancing for a rebel general, interred in a high security prison…
An MI6 team under suspicion of betrayal, tasked with staging a rescue attempt…
Enter Cal Winter and the press-ganged mercenaries of The Firm, tasked with planning a daring assault on a remote, heavily guarded fortress. But Cal has another off-the-books objective: discover the traitor inside the MI6 team, believed to have been turned by the Chinese Ministry of State Security.
Cal’s mission becomes a desperate warzone whodunnit with the only prize being betrayal or sudden death. Outnumbered and outgunned, Cal’s team are hunted by an elite team of Chinese commandos in a blood-soaked game of espionage and deception. As more of The Firm’s secrets are revealed, Cal Winter is left with a perilous choice… Amazon
Cal Winter is a junkie and a murderer. He has also won the Military Cross for Gallantry, and has resolved to be a better man. But first, he has business to attend to.
In this, the third of the Cal Winter military novels, a penniless and desperate Cal is coerced into working for a band of freelance paramilitaries known as the Firm. After a decade of deniable and increasingly pointless killing, he plots revenge. Armed with a file of the Firm's dirtiest secrets, Winter returns to London.
There, he discovers the organisation has evolved into something even worse…
Winter assembles a careworn team of the Firm's cast-offs and misfits. Their enemy is a ruthless warrior elite, information warfare specialists.
From Iceland to the City of London and on to the lonely marshes of England's southern coast, Winter must stop the Firm. Not just to save the country he once scorned, but to fulfil his vow to redeem his own, damaged, self. Amazon
October 1957
The war-torn Socialist Republic of Great Britain seethes with unrest.
Thomas Fairburn, British-born KGB officer is summoned to London by Britain’s security leader, Kim Philby. Philby tasks Fairburn with a dangerous mission: uncover the high-level officials aiding a dissident author's defection to the USA.
Who would risk their lives to help a mere novelist, and why?
With just two weeks before Russia’s First Secretary of the Communist Party, Khrushchev arrives in London. Fairburn must discover if the Americans have infiltrated the heart of Communist Britain.
But as Fairburn delves deeper, he uncovers a terrifying secret — a revelation that could unleash Soviet tanks and firing squads on the streets of London... Amazon
In Stassia, loyalty to the Party means survival. And Axel Geist – rogue, self-styled ladies’ man and accidental political prisoner – is determined to survive. Even if it means selling his soul to the Old God Bassarus, Lord of Deceit and Duke of Hell.
When Bassarus orders Axel to volunteer for Stassia’s warrior elite, the black-uniformed Timberwolves, he joins a labyrinthine security state. A traitor, deep inside the regime. A world of play or be played, kill or be killed… Stassia’s destiny turns on Axel’s treachery and lies.
Timberwolf – a dark fantasy of espionage, love, war and betrayal set in a world similar to, but entirely different from, our own. Amazon
Rufus Hooker – trouble-shooter, bounty-hunter, private eye. Speciality – missing persons, hostile environment rescue.
Area of Operations – London’s war-torn No-Zone, recovering from a conflict begun by a transhuman elite known as The Archangels. Hired to find the Reconstruction Minister’s kidnapped daughter, Rufus and former Black Bloc rebel Leah Martinez find themselves deep inside Lagoon City’s festering barrios. There, they discover an inconvenient secret, one that threatens the shattered city’s reconstruction.
As the clock ticks and riots blaze, Rufus must choose between the future and his mission. Amazon
Department 12: Dirty. Deniable. Deadly.
Allegra Page is found dead from an overdose of fentanyl-spiked cocaine, trafficked into Britain by the ruthless Albanian shqiptare. But Allegra’s mother is Olivia Page, the Home Secretary of a failing, bankrupted government.
Wracked by grief, Page learns of a secret unit. Department 12. Half-forgotten. A relic from Britain’s murky past. Department 12 is sanctioned perform the unthinkable - extrajudicial killing.
And, if Olivia Page so chooses, she can unleash them on organised crime.
If she dares. Amazon