Fiction
The Janac's Games books are The Defector and The Wrecking Crew - originally published by Random House and HarperCollins.
Powder Burn is the first of a new series of thrillers, the adventures of wannabe investigative journalist, Sam Blackett.
The Fulcrum Files is a stand-alone work of historical fiction, set in 1936 - a world on the brink of an apocalyptic war.
They are listed here in the order in which they were written, most recent at the top.
If Dragon Tattoo’s Mikael Blomkvist and the Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen could have a love-child, she’d probably be a lot like Sam Blackett. Powder Burn is the first of a great new series of thrillers featuring Sam, a Vermont backcountry girl and a wannabe investigative journalist.
Sam Blackett has given up her job as a sub-editor with a New York paper, abandoned her boyfriend and flown east to chase her dream of becoming a writer. Three months later she's unpublished, unhappy, broke and stuck in the Himalayas – and her mother wants her back home in Vermont. But that was just the start of her problems, before the freedom fighters, the mountain and the weather got in on the act - read more here.
The film rights to Powder Burn have been previously optioned by Working Title Films.
The young Ben Clayton was one of Britain's brightest boxing prospects, until the day he slammed a left hook into a fragile chin. Sickened by the consequences he turned away from the ring, found solace in the arms of the beautiful Lucy Kirk and looked for new challenges.
On the 7th March 1936, after almost two decades of peace in Europe, Hitler ordered the German Army back into the Rhineland. It was a direct challenge to Britain and France. Still unnerved by the toll of the Great War, the politicians dithered. The French Army stayed in its barracks, while the aristocratic British elite looked on from their country retreats.
History teetered on a knife edge, but the spymasters were busy.
Just one man could make the difference between war and peace, victory or defeat. And that man was Ben Clayton. Thrown into the maelstrom of plot and counter-plot, into a world of murder, spies and traitors, Ben must battle not just to survive, but to protect all that he loves and holds most dear.
#1 Amazon thriller in the USA and UK.
Originally Published as a Kindle Exclusive - read more here.
Read the chapters in the PDF and then you'll want to buy the whole book - available for Kindle, iPad and many other ereaders from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Smashwords.com, BarnesandNoble.com, the iBookstore, Kobo, Diesel eBook Store, or at Sony's Reader Store.
What will you do, when it's them... or the woman you love?
Drug baron Janac has turned to piracy to fund his battle for control of the Australian narcotics trade. When he attacks the MV Shawould on an evil night in the South China Sea, it seems he has also found the perfect victim for his psychotic games.
Phil Hamnet and his wife Anna are sharing a last voyage on the Shawould before the arrival of their twins. Hamnet escapes Janac's attack, but Anna is taken and held hostage to ensure first his silence and then his cooperation. But when Janac's rogue ex-Special Forces crew attack more ships and men start dying, Hamnet has to decide if he can continue to sacrifice the lives of unknown sailors to save the woman he loves.
It's an awful decision for anyone to have to make, but for a man who's already had the same dilemma - in a lifeboat, adrift in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean - it's a living nightmare.
Janac's first appearance was in the suspense thriller The Defector - a top download in the UK Kindle free eBook chart for over two weeks, subsequently charting in the Top 100 paid list.
#1 Amazon book in Germany.
Originally published by HarperCollins ANZ - read more here.
Read the first five chapters in the PDF, and then I'm sure you'll want to buy the whole book - available for Kindle, iPad and many other ereaders from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Smashwords.com, BarnesandNoble.com, the iBookstore, Kobo, Diesel eBook Store, or at Sony's Reader Store.
What will you do, when it's you or them?
This is the dilemma at the heart of The Defector - can Martin Cormac turn his back on his ruthless past as a dealer, a major city player, and do the right thing? Not when he's looking for answers in a succession of sleazy dives...
One night, Cormac gets caught trying to chat up the bar owner's girlfriend and soon needs rescuing. Unfortunately, his white knight is anything but - Janac's a big-time drug baron with a psychotic urge to test people to the limit, and if possible... over it.
And soon Cormac is running from more than his past, he's running from the most dangerous game he will ever play.
#1 Amazon thriller in Britain and Germany.
Originally published by Century and HarperCollins ANZ - read more here.
Read the first five chapters in the PDF, and then I'm sure you'll want to buy the whole book - available for Kindle, iPad and many other ereaders from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Smashwords.com, BarnesandNoble.com, the iBookstore, Kobo, Diesel eBook Store, or at Sony's Reader Store.
There is also a free audiobook version of The Defector, listen online, or download the iTunes podcast: