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DARK HORIZON is out in May!

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On Thursday 25th May, my new stand-alone action thriller novel DARK HORIZON will be released by Welbeck Publishing in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook editions (with an audiobook on the way!)

AT 40,000 FEET UP… THERE IS NO PLACE TO HIDE.

Only a handful of people know the reason why Kate Hood left the military in disgrace; now a contract pilot for a private jet company, she’s looking for a second chance and a better life. But to keep her secrets, she must take a last-minute assignment to fly a covert cargo out of the country to a non-extradition nation, with no questions asked…

The cargo is a prisoner who may be the key to a violent terrorist conspiracy – but he swears he is an innocent man, wrongly accused of crimes he played no part in, and as Kate races through the night, on the ground a team of ruthless assassins are hunting the people she cares about, threatening their lives to force the pilot to divert the aircraft…

But is the endgame to liberate the captive – or kill him? Trapped at the heart of an escalating crisis, Kate and her mysterious passenger must navigate the conflicting agendas of enemies and allies alike, on a flight into danger that neither of them may survive…

Early reviews for the novel are already coming in, calling DARK HORIZON an “addictive must-read thriller“, “heart-throbbing and gripping” and “a real page-turner“!

There’s still time to pre-order DARK HORIZON and get it on release day – just follow this link, or pre-order the book from your favourite high street or independent bookstore!

DARK HORIZON is coming soon!

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Today I am very pleased to officially unveil the cover art and details of DARK HORIZON, my next original stand-alone thriller, published by Welbeck and coming this summer to all good bookstores and online retailers…

AT 40,000 FEET UP… THERE IS NO PLACE TO HIDE.

A fatal crash on a rain-slick road and a brutal murder in an English village set off a deadly chain of events, leading from stormy skies over the Mediterranean Sea to an explosive confrontation on a remote desert airstrip…

Only a handful of people know the reason why Kate Hood left the military in disgrace; now a contract pilot for a private jet company, she’s looking for a second chance and a better life…

But to keep her secrets, she must take a last-minute assignment to fly a covert cargo out of the country to a non-extradition nation, with no questions asked…

The cargo is a prisoner who may be the key to a violent terrorist conspiracy – but he swears he is an innocent man, wrongly accused of crimes he played no part in…

And as Kate races through the night, on the ground a team of ruthless assassins are hunting the people she cares about, threatening their lives to force the pilot to divert the aircraft…

But is the endgame to liberate the captive – or kill him?

Trapped at the heart of an escalating crisis, Kate and her mysterious passenger must navigate the conflicting agendas of enemies and allies alike, on a flight into danger that neither of them may survive…

I am very excited about bringing DARK HORIZON to readers this summer; the novel will be available in hardback and eBook editions from May 25th 2023, and we have an audiobook in the works too!

You can pre-order your copy of DARK HORIZON by following this link, or by pre-ordering the book from your favourite retailer or independent bookstore – pre-orders are always greatly appreciated as they help raise the profile of new books, so thank you in advance!

DARK HORIZON maintains the same high-speed, action-packed, edge-of-the-seat thrills I’ve made my trademark – if you enjoyed AIRSIDE, NOMAD and the other novels in my bestselling Marc Dane series, you’ll love this one too!

AIRSIDE OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK!

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The weather outside is frightful – and not just for everyone in grip of Winter, but also for the protagonist of my latest thriller novel AIRSIDE, out now in a new paperback edition, just in time for your Christmas gift-giving and Holiday Season reading!

Two million in cash. Nowhere to run. Nothing left to lose. Would you risk it?

Today is the worst day of your life. The deal you risked it all for has fallen apart at the last minute. You’re stranded at a remote airport as a storm rages outside. Then you discover an unattended bag. Inside is two million euros in cash.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Stranded by a storm in the airside zone of a remote municipal airport, beleaguered businessman Kevin Tyler stumbles upon a bag of money that could be the solution to all his woes. There’s just one problem – the money is part of a conspiracy of blackmail and murder, and those involved are willing to do anything to keep it…

If you didn’t take the opportunity to pick up AIRSIDE in the summer, the paperback is available at all good bookstores (and if you prefer an eBook, my publisher Welbeck also has you covered). A fast-paced crime thriller with an every-man hero out of his depth in a dangerous race against time, if you liked NOMAD and my bestselling Marc Dane series, I hope you’ll give AIRSIDE a read.

Follow these links to grab your copy of AIRSIDE!

DRAGONFIRE cover reveal!

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As officially approved by my publishers at Aconyte Books, and the teams at Red Storm and Ubisoft, I can reveal the official cover art for Dragonfire, my upcoming tie-in novel based on the action-packed Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell espionage thriller series! Following on from Firewall, this new adventure in the world of Fourth Echelon will be out in January 2023.

A DANGEROUS OPERATION BEHIND ENEMY LINES.
A BETRAYAL FROM WITHIN THE DEEP STATE.
A CONSPIRACY THAT THREATENS OPEN WAR.

For veteran Splinter Cell operative Sam Fisher, what begins as a high-stakes stealth mission inside the borders of the hermit nation of North Korea unexpectedly spirals out of control. Abandoned by his government, disavowed by the top-secret Fourth Echelon program, and hunted by remorseless enemies, Sam must adapt, improvise and call on all his skills to survive.
And a world away, inside the Splinter Cell team, lines of loyalty are tested to their limits as Sam’s estranged daughter Sarah races to track down her missing-in-action father before his luck runs out.
Together, they must expose the sinister scheme of the conspirators known as ‘The Dragons’ and stop a deadly chain of events exploding across the two Koreas – or millions will die…

Splinter Cell: Dragonfire will be available worldwide in eBook and in paperback across the USA from January 3rd 2023, and in paperback in the UK on March 30th 2023. Follow the links in the text to to pre-order Splinter Cell: Dragonfire direct from Amazon or via the Aconyte website.

SPLINTER CELL: DRAGONFIRE IGNITES!

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Last year I got to work on something that ticked off a couple of boxes on my author bucket list – namely writing Firewall, a new, all-original novel for the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell series… And now I’m pleased to announce that I’m returning to the world of Fourth Echelon with another story arriving early in 2023 – Dragonfire.

A DANGEROUS OPERATION BEHIND ENEMY LINES.

A BETRAYAL FROM WITHIN THE DEEP STATE.

A CONSPIRACY THAT THREATENS OPEN WAR.

For veteran Splinter Cell operative Sam Fisher, what begins as a high-stakes stealth mission inside the borders of the hermit nation of North Korea unexpectedly spirals out of control.

Abandoned by his government, disavowed by the top-secret Fourth Echelon program, and hunted by remorseless enemies, Sam must adapt, improvise and call on all his skills to survive.

And a world away, inside the Splinter Cell team, lines of loyalty are tested to their limits as Sam’s estranged daughter Sarah races to track down her missing-in-action father before his luck runs out.

Together, they must expose the sinister scheme of the conspirators known as ‘The Dragons’ and stop a deadly chain of events exploding across the two Koreas – or millions will die…

The Splinter Cell franchise is based on a series of stealth-shooter action games where players take on the role of black ops specialist Sam Fisher, fighting against advanced terror threats to global security. Endorsed by the titan of techno-thrillers himself, Tom Clancy, to date the Splinter Cell series encompasses seven videogames, along with several comics and novels, with a new game and an animated show on Netflix on the way.

Splinter Cell: Dragonfire will be on published by Aconyte Books in association with Ubisoft and Red Storm Entertainment, available worldwide in eBook and in paperback across the USA from January 3rd 2023, and in paperback in the UK on March 30th 2023.

You can pre-order Splinter Cell: Dragonfire from Amazon or via the Aconyte website – and expect a cover reveal and more details about this book in the coming months…

OUTLAW paperback is OUT!

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As of this week, the 6th book in my action-packed Marc Dane thriller series is finally available in a new paperback edition! If you didn’t pick it up in hardcover, this is the perfect moment to grab a copy…

I’ve had some readers asking if this is the last Marc Dane story – that is certainly not my intention! Currently, focus is on developing NOMAD, the first novel in the series, as a feature film adaptation (see more details about that here) but I hope to return to more stories about Marc in the near future…

No Time. No Backup. No Surrender.

Gutted by the ruthless power brokers known as the Combine, the Rubicon Group is a shadow of its former self, its founder Ekko Solomon missing presumed dead and the members of its private security and intelligence team in hiding, framed for a terrorist atrocity they did not commit.

For ex-MI6 officer Marc Dane, his friend and colleague Lucy Keyes, and the survivors of Rubicon’s Special Conditions Division, the future is bleak.

With no support and no backup, they are living on the edge, and the walls are closing in – so with nothing left to lose, the team will risk everything in a last ditch gambit to strike back at the Combine and bring them down…once and for all.

Rising from the ashes of Rubicon’s destruction, Marc and the team undertake a high-stakes undercover mission to stop a catastrophic plan to crash the global financial network, with only their cunning and their skills to carry them through.

If they succeed, they might just get their lives back.

If they fail, it will be the end of everything they’ve been fighting for…

Since Marc Dane’s first adventure back in the pages of NOMAD, the heroes of the Rubicon team have fought deadly threats across the world – and now, all those threads come together in the pages of OUTLAW… And things will never be the same!

Along with the new paperback, OUTLAW is also out in eBook and audiobook editions if you prefer, available from all good online retailers, your bookshop of choice and selected high street stores. If you can, please consider supporting the smaller local independent bookstores in your area if you can by getting your copy of the OUTLAW paperback from them – Hive can help via this link!

And as always, you can stay in the loop on with all the news about my Marc Dane series, my stand-alone thrillers and the NOMAD feature film by signing up to my Reader’s Club mailing list – see below on the bottom right side of this webpage!