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A teenager, Sally, dies from a heroin overdose at the hands of her dealer from the Nortth End Crew organised crime gang.
No-one cares. Except ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Wright - a veteran, unorthodox officer. Sally was his niece.
Detective Superintendent Peter Bartholomew - an arrogant and dishonest detective - runs a cabal of corrupt officers.
Bartholomew is hell-bent on removing the head of the North End Crew - Jonny Piper - by any means necessary.
The Lancashire Chief Constable, George Dawson - a diligent and principled officer - knows Bartholomew is corrupt. But is unable to prove it.
Forced to retire - and free from the shackles of procedure - Dawson goes after Bartholomew. He joins forces with Wright who craves justice for his niece. They work together, albeit they are pursuing different agendas.
The real power behind the NEC is Tommy Johnson - a violent and determined criminal - involved in drug and gunrunning who plans to be the leading exporter of a far more lucrative contraband.
Law enforcement and criminals collide, blurring the lines.
THE DS DRAKER SERIES IS OUT NOW
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Detective Sergeant Martin Draker is a seasoned officer who clears cases - and not always through conventional methods.
A reliable informant, Abdul Bashir, tells Draker that a corrupt police official is passing sensitive intelligence to criminal Dan Manning, a vicious Manchester armed robber and drug dealer, who is also importing heroin from India.
Abdul Bashir then goes missing.
Field analyst Cath Moore, a former journalist who switched careers to join police intelligence, is investigating an upsurge in deaths caused by a new drug – Sky White.
Manning commits an armed robbery and leaves a body in the burnt-out getaway car. Draker fears it is the missing informant, Bashir. A note threatens more deaths unless the police cease their investigation.
Moore launches a TV appeal warning of the dangers of Sky White. Manning is incensed; she could kill the new drug’s market before the supplier makes a return on his investment.
Draker and Moore pursue Manning, who in turn is hunting Moore to silence her.
An audacious plan to capture Manning fails, only for Draker and Moore to run into Manning's own trap.
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Tommy Broadbent, one of Liverpool's most renowned criminals, stumbles across a vagrant, Thomas Dorchester - who is the villain's exact doppelgänger. Dorchester is soon hired to front Broadbent's club, to fool the police that he has gone legit, while Broadbent carries on his activities in the shadows.
Dorchester is shot - but survives. The police are called in to investigate.
Detective Sergeant Martin Draker, an officer who clears cases - but not always through conventional means - with his superior DCI Colin Carstairs, an experienced detective adept at seeing the bigger picture, are brought in to run a parallel investigation. Broadbent may be considered a reformed criminal, but he is also one of Merseyside Police's most valuable informants.
Dorchester wakes up in hospital and realises he needs help. He plans to out himself as an impostor to Draker and his partner Cath Moore, an ex-journalist who swapped careers to become a field intelligence analyst. A further attempt on his life succeeds before he can reveal the truth - and the attack nearly takes out Draker and Moore.
Learning from his exploitation of Dorchester, Broadbent intends to infiltrate the police with false informants and sell the intelligence to the highest bidders.
Draker, Carstairs and Moore need to uncover Broadbent's plans and prevent them.
There will be blood.
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A bomb is planted by a Russian ex-Spetsnaz, Igor Jakinsky, who is arrested, but refuses to reveal the location. The device will explode in an hour in Preston.
Detective Sergeant Draker - an unconventional but effective officer - is called in to deal with the case, whilst key personnel travel up from London.
Jakinsky entered the UK as a fruit picker. Assessed by MI5 previously, he was photographed in a compromising position with another picker, Olga Solokov.
The photographs are used as leverage against the Russian and he reveals the location of the device. But the clock is ticking.
Sokolov is apprehended, as a further call warns of a second bomb. Draker, a skilled interrogator, plays the conspirators off against each other, and uncovers a plot involving the Russian intelligence service and ISIS.
Things are not what they seem as the UK security services - and NATO - could now be compromised.
HIDDEN
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Vinnie’s romantic holiday did not go as planned. There was an assault, his companion was threatened and the police asked them to leave.
And when Vinnie returns to his police job in Manchester, things don’t get much better, as he finds himself at the heart of an investigation that stretches from Manchester to all corners of Europe. Women are being trafficked into the UK and forced into prostitution, and while the police are diligent in their enquiries, they seem to have a rogue in their midst.
As events unravel, the lines between good and bad, police and criminals, seem to become more and more blurred... and the stakes for all involved are getting higher.
Hidden is Book 3 in Roger Price’s the badge and the pen series, but it can equally be read as a novel in its own right. Existing fans of Vinnie and Christine are bound to love it, but Hidden is also perfect for crime and police fiction lovers, and anybody who loves a fast-paced, gripping story.
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VENGEANCE
Jack Quintel is a hit man. When a job comes in to kill the Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police Jim Reedly, he contracts it out to a new guy, Charlie Parker…
Watching in the shadows, Quintel sees Parker shoot out Reedly’s windscreen, then drag him into the woods and thinks the job’s been done. But when Parker tries to pass off a pig’s heart as Reedly’s, things start to go very wrong. Jack’s right hand man Jason kills Charlie, who it turns out is an undercover police officer.
Detective Vinnie Palmer is with the Preston police. He was called in when they received the information about the impending hit. Now he has to figure out how to clean up the mess. And he wants whoever killed Parker bad. He finds the man who put Parker in touch with Quintel, a low life hood named Dempter, living in an estate in Preston.
He doesn’t know much, but motivated by money, agrees to be an informant for the police. Christine Jones is a TV reporter. She and Vinnie had worked together before, chasing a serial killer. They meet again at the warehouse where Charlie was killed, and realise their relationship could be more than professional. But first, Christine wants to know what’s happening. Christine is working on a documentary about positive discrimination against non-Catholic officers in Northern Ireland since the peace process. She makes contact with a former police officer in Northern Belfast named Paul Bury, who feeds her some of the information she needs.
Meanwhile, as the bodies start to pile up in Preston, there’s another attempt on Reedly’s life, when a grenade is thrown at him at his brother-in-law’s funeral. As Vinnie fights to keep Reedly alive, suddenly Christine’s life is in danger. And they both start to wonder if the contract against Reedly has anything to do with her documentary on Northern Ireland. But how could it?
NEMESIS
When psychopath Daniel Moxley makes his escape while being escorted to Broadmoor high security prison, he sets off on a trail of bloody revenge, leaving police forces throughout the north of England floundering in his wake.
Moxley’s paranoia has him seemingly selecting victims at random. The only thing they have in common is the gruesome nature of their killings. Police, prison warders and even old ladies have been the target of Moxley’s cold-blooded murder spree.
When Detective Inspector Vinnie Palmer is assigned to the case, Moxley decides that he too must die, but not before he has led him from one blood-soaked scene to another. Among his victims is Vinnie’s offsider, Detective Constable Rob Hill, who he discovers has his own dark and destructive secret that rips Vinnie’s life apart.
With the help of Moxley’s psychiatrist, Vinnie delves deep into the man’s criminal past and uncovers a history of corrupt police, sexual coercion and gaol brutality. But when Vinnie closes in on Moxley and takes the law into his own hands, he ends up suspended and stripped of his police powers.
Determined not to let Moxley escape justice, Vinnie continues his pursuit of the maniac as a private citizen.
He teams up with determined television reporter Christine Jones and together they pursue Moxley north to Scotland and back again.
But the killer always seems to be one step ahead, leaving a trail mutilated bodies in his wake. Lured on by Moxley’s taunts, Vinnie discovers that it is his own wife – a fellow police worker – who has been an unwitting aid in Moxley’s deadly deeds.
As a result, his suspension is lifted in time for him and Christine to gain full police support and finally confront Moxley in a terrifying final encounter.
But is it too late?
A NEW MENACE
Newly retired from the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, John Burrows is shocked to be called back by his old bosses for one last job. And not just any job – he's on the tail of his old adversary, the infamous Jonny Moon, a dangerous and volatile criminal who will stop at nothing to get his own way.
When a civilian is kidnapped and tortured by Moon's associates after a botched surveillance operation, Burrows knows he's in deep water. Not only must he track down Moon and deal with a mole in the ranks, he must do all this without Moon finding out who he is. Or who his partner, Jane Lee, is – the officer who, last time they met, showed him that he's not invincible.
A New Menace is a taut thriller, an exciting tale of covert surveillance, lies, deception and double agents.
BY THEIR RULES
A new, ruthless and implacable mastermind from Africa has surfaced in gangland, carrying out his darkest deeds in the murky grey shadows of London’s back streets. But, following the multiple slaughter of a large number of policemen by this monster, and his intention to commit further atrocious crimes, the challenge has to be met. The result is that this reign of terror is likely to have catastrophic consequences so emergency action is imperative.
Together, Lee and Burrows form a talented, resourceful, athletic team of experienced investigators who become dedicated to the eradication of this evil, yet powerful killer. But Cabilla’s awesome control of his murderous gang who torture victims to death, and his totally ruthless plans still appear to be gaining ground throughout the City…