It was always the same: a bottle of whisky, premium brand, and a packet of cigarettes. He paid his money over the counter, took hold of his plastic bag containing his purchases, and then walked back down the road with the same rhythmic shuffle. He said not one word to anyone on the street or in the shop.
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Murder has no Guilt – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 9
No one knows who the target was or why, but there are eight dead. The men seem the most likely perpetrators, or could have it been one of the two women, the attractive Gillian Dickenson, or even the celebrity-obsessed Sal Maynard?
There’s a gang war brewing, and if there are deaths, it doesn’t matter to them as long as it’s not their death. But to Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook, it’s his area of London, and it does matter.
It’s dirty and unpredictable. Initially, it had been the West Indian gangs, but then a more vicious Romanian gangster had usurped them. And now he’s being marginalised by the Russians. And the leader of the most vicious Russian mafia organisation is in London, and he’s got money and influence, the ear of those in power.
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Murder in Hyde Park – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 10
An early-morning jogger is murdered in Hyde Park. It’s the centre of London, but no one saw him enter the park, no one saw him die.
He carries no identification, only a water-logged phone. As the pieces unravel, it’s clear that the dead man had a history of deception.
Is the murderer one of those that loved him? Or was it someone with a vengeance?
It’s proving difficult for DCI Isaac Cook and his team at Challis Street Homicide to find the guilty person – not that they’ll cease to search for the truth, not even after one suspect confesses.
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Six Years Too Late – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 11
Always the same questions for Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook – Why was Marcus Matthews in that room? And why did he share a bottle of wine with his killer?
It wasn’t as if the man had amounted to much in life, apart from the fact that he was the son-in-law of a notorious gangster, the father of the man’s grandchildren.
Yet one thing that Hamish McIntyre, feared in London for his violence, rated above anything else was his family, especially Samantha, his daughter. However, he had never cared for Marcus, her husband.
And then Marcus disappeared, only for his body to be found six years later by a couple of young boys who decide that exploring an abandoned house is preferable to school.
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Murder Without Reason – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 12
DCI Cook faces his greatest challenge. The Islamic State is waging war in England, and they are winning.
Not only does Isaac Cook have to contend with finding the perpetrators, but he is also being forced to commit actions contrary to his mandate as a police officer.
And then there is Anne Argento, the prime minister’s deputy. The prime minister has shown himself to be a pacifist and is not up to the task. She needs to take his job if the country is to fight back against the Islamists.
Vane and Martin have provided the solution. Will DCI Cook and Anne Argento be willing to follow it through? Are they able to act for the good of England, knowing that a criminal and murderous action is about to take place? Do they have an option?
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Grave Passion – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 13
Two young lovers out for a night of romance. A shortcut through the cemetery. They witness a murder, but there was no struggle, only a knife through the heart.
It has all the hallmarks of an assassination, but who is the woman? And why was she beside a grave at night? Did she know the person who killed her?
Soon after, other deaths, seemingly unconnected, but tied to the family of one of the young lovers.
It’s a case for Detective Inspector Cook and his team, and they’re baffled on this one.
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The Slaying of Joe Foster – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 14
No one challenged Joe Foster in life, not if they valued theirs. And then, the gangster is slain and his criminal empire up for grabs.
A power vacuum; the Foster family is fighting for control, the other gangs in the area aiming to poach the trade in illegal drugs, to carve up the empire that the father had created.
It has all the makings of a war on the streets, something nobody wants, not even the other gangs.
Terry Foster, the eldest son of Joe, the man who should take control, doesn’t have the temperament of his father, nor the wisdom. His solution is slash and burn, and it’s not going to work. People are going to get hurt and some of them are going to die.
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Steve Case Thriller Series
Prelude to War – A Steve Case Thriller – Book 1
Russia and America face each other across the northern border of Afghanistan. World War 3 is about to break out, and no one is backing off.
And all because a team of academics in New York postulated how to extract the vast untapped mineral wealth of Afghanistan.
Steve Case is in the middle of it, and his position is looking very precarious. Will the Taliban find him before the Americans get him out? Or is he doomed, as is the rest of the world?
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The Haberman Virus – A Steve Case Thriller – Book 2
A remote and isolated village in the Hindu Kush mountain range in North Eastern Afghanistan is wiped out by a virus unlike any seen before.
A mysterious visitor clad in a spacesuit checks his handiwork, a female American doctor succumbs to the disease, and the woman sent to trap the person responsible falls in love with him – the man who would cause the deaths of millions.
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Hostage of Fear – A Steve Case Thriller – Book 3
Three are to die at the Mission in Nigeria: the pastor and his wife in a blazing chapel; another gunned down while trying to defend them from the Islamist fighters.
Kate McDonald, an American, grieving over her boyfriend’s death and Helen Campbell, whose life had been troubled by drugs and prostitution, are taken by the attackers.
Kate is sold to a slave trader who intends to sell her virginity to an Arab Prince. Helen, to ensure their survival, gives herself to the murderer of her friends.
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Standalone Books
Malika’s Revenge
Malika, a drug-addicted prostitute, waits in a smugglers’ village for the next Afghan tribesman or Tajik gangster to pay her price, a few scraps of heroin.
Yusup Baroyev, a drug lord, enjoys a lifestyle many would envy. An Afghan warlord sees the resurgence of the Taliban. A Russian white-collar criminal portrays himself as a good and honest citizen in Moscow.
All of them are linked to an audacious plan to increase the quantity of heroin shipped out of Afghanistan and into Russia and ultimately the West.
Some will succeed, some will die, some will be rescued from their plight and others will rue the day they became involved.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Phillip Strang was born in England in the late forties. He was an avid reader of science fiction in his teenage years: Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, the masters of the genre. Still an avid reader, the author now mainly reads thrillers.
In his early twenties, the author, with a degree in electronics engineering and a desire to see the world, left England for Sydney, Australia. Now, forty years later, he still resides in Australia, although many intervening years were spent in a myriad of countries, some calm and safe, others no more than war zones.
Author’s Website: http://www.phillipstrang.com
Email; [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhillipStrangWriter/
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