by Craig Smith
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Also by Craig Smith, The Painted Messiah - International Best-Selling Action from Craig Smith
A legend persists that, after the ‘scourging’, Pilate commanded that his victim be painted from life.
Somewhere, the painting survives, the only true image of Christ, granting the gift of everlasting life to whoever possesses it.
Kate Kenyon, the wealthy young widow of an English aristocrat, has an addiction to mortal risk. She feeds it by engaging in the armed robbery of priceless artefacts with her accomplice and lover Ethan Brand. Their latest target is a price"1eless ‘Byzantine’ icon hidden in the tower of a chateau by Lake Lucerne. So far they have never had to shoot anyone. This time will be different.
Thomas Malloy is a retired CIA man looking for his first lucrative freelance assignment. His chance comes with a presidential favour to a rich but ailing televangelist. Malloy’s task seems simple enough: pick up the preacher’s newly acquired painting from a Zurich bank and get it to the airport. But, once in Switzerland, Malloy’s old friend, the enigmatic Contessa Claudia de Medici tries to warn him off his mission.
Sir Julian Corbeau is an international criminal holed up in Switzerland to avoid US extradition proceedings.
He is also the sadistic head of the modern Knights Templar. He had the painting and now he desperately wants it back and swears to wreak a bloody revenge upon those who stole it.
As the contenders vie for possession the bullets fly, the body count rises and the secrets of the portrait gradually unfold.
TRANSLATED INTO FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPANISH, RUSSIAN, CZECH, POLISH,
GREEK, TURKISH AND CHINESE
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Also by Craig Smith a sizzling sequel to The Painted Messiah - The Blood Lance
Kufstein, Austria, 1939
At the foot of a mountain known as The Wilder Kaiser lies the body of an SS officer, his neck broken but his face a picture of bliss and serenity. The dead man is known to history as Otto Rahn, Himmler’s own archaeologist. Rahn’s pursuit of the legendary Blood Lance of the Cathars has not only led to his own downfall but set in motion a tragic chain of events reaching far beyond the holocaust.
Switzerland 1997
Lord Robert Kenyon is a wealthy financier and a senior member of a humanitarian order calling themselves The Knights of the Holy Lance. Whilst climbing the North face of the Eiger with his new bride, he is attacked and murdered and his young wife Kate left for dead.
New York City 2008
When billionaire Jack Farrell, long suspected of connections to European crime syndicates cuts loose after defrauding his own company, ex CIA agent Thomas Malloy is assigned to track him down. The trail leads to Germany and the Order of the Holy Lance. With his friends, former art thieves Kate and Ethan Brand, Malloy set out to unlock the secrets of the order: Malloy seeks his man; Kate must find the truth about what happened on the slopes of the Eiger eleven years before – and exact her vengeance. Their first step is to kidnap a corrupt lawyer, connected to the order, from his home in Hamburg. Things don’t quite run to plan – and all hell breaks loose.
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Scotland has a new crime detective: a big man with a big heart… and very few scruples, Stone Gallows - C. David Ingram
DC Cameron Stone spent three months in intensive care before he could recall what happened: the high speed pursuit of a vice baron through the night streets of Glasgow that took the life of a teenage mother and her child. Then the message from Audrey on the back of a ‘get well soon’ card announcing that she had left him and taken their young son, Mark, with her. Booze, anti-depressants and therapy have all failed to enable him to resume his old job.
So now Stone lives the worst part of town. He pays the rent by running errands for a private detective. His chores include tracking down a teenage runaway and surveillance for a woman who thinks her husband is sleeping with her sister. He’s also paid by his former colleagues to do the work that’s not quite clean enough for them to do themselves- putting the fear of God into any local scumbag who thinks he can’t be touched.
It’s been a bad week. Audrey has moved into the plush home of a plastic surgeon and is getting difficult about access to Mark. He finds his runaway in a brothel and just gets roughed-up for his trouble. There’s the knife wielding kids on the stairs outside his flat and the daubing on his door: Burn in Hell Baby Killer. The only brightness on his horizon is his growing friendship with Liz, the sunny Irish nurse who lives on the next floor.
But things are about to get worse for Cameron Stone. Somebody is out to destroy him and everything he loves- unless he can get to them first.
“This great book makes me want to read the next instalment- Ingram having promised some interesting times ahead for Cameron Stone.” Paul Blackburn Eurocrime
“There were some stunning debuts last year but if we could only pick one it would be this world class Scottish thriller… With a cracking storyline and dialogue so authentic you can hear the neds speak, this Paisley author scored a massive hit with a debut that promises to be the start of something big.”
Shari Low The Daily Record January 2010
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David Morrell - Spy Who Came for Christmas, From the multi-million best selling creator of John Rambo and The Brotherhood of the Rose
On Christmas Eve in snow-covered Santa Fe, New Mexico, tens of thousands of pedestrians stroll through the festively decorated streets. Among them is Paul Kagan, a spy on the run trying desperately to protect a special package; a baby who just might be the key to a lasting peace in the Middle East. He is pursued closely by three extremely dangerous men, members of the Russian mafia whom he has just betrayed.
Attempting to elude his hunters, Kagan seeks refuge in a quiet house on the outskirts of the town. Once inside he discovers it is occupied by a woman and her 12-year-old son hiding from other evils and whom he has now put in mortal danger as his hunters manage to track him down. In the tense hours that follow, Kagan tries to calm the woman and the boy by telling them the spy’s version of the traditional Nativity story as he prepares the house for the onslaught he knows to be coming…
“Master storyteller David Morrell gives us an amazing holiday classic that thrills us with heart-pounding suspense while tugging at our emotions.”
Tess Gerritson, best-selling author of The Bone Garden
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Savage and visceral apocalyptic thriller the first in a sizzling new trilogy Reaper by Jon Grahame
“ Jim Reaper started to plan a murder as thousands began to die in a natural disaster that almost killed the world...”
A down-at-heel, middle-aged ex-cop has nothing much to live for. But then he learns that the man who raped and killed his daughter has been released from prison after serving only three years.
Obsessed with preparations for revenge, Jim Reaper is largely indifferent to reports of what the world’s media have labelled ‘SuperSARS’, a virulent pandemic spreading swiftly westwards from China.
Reaper slaughters his daughter’s killer and finds himself in a police cell. But there’ll be no trial for Reaper; the fabric of law enforcement and of organised society itself is already in terminal decline as 99% of Britain’s population succumb to severe flu-like symptoms. As the last of Reaper’s custodians leaves his post to take to his bed he leaves Reaper the keys to the cell.
Days later, when Reaper finally emerges, he walks the city streets for hours without seeing anyone- and then he spots three men, armed with shotguns and dragging a teenage girl from a dog-collar and chain.
Reaper returns to the station
to collect a Kevlar vest, two handguns and a Heckler and Koch carbine...
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Part I Legends
Part II Whispers
Part III Judgement
Part IV The Devil’s Wager
Part V Treasures of Darkness
Part VI Comes an Old Man
Part VII Treasures of the Snow
Part VIII The Daughters oeateig p tr eyf Job