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Jake Dillon, in his inaugural adventure thriller, is brought into the headquarters of Ferran & Cardini under the pretense of investigating a Cabinet Minister's sunken cruiser and its compromising cargo. At the bottom of the English Channel, not far from Sandbanks, Jake and his team find more than they bargained for! Entwined within the brief of keeping the Cabinet Minster's reputation intact is a dangerous operation to pass off a deal with the Sicilian Mafia. Jake puts his life on the line once again to go beyond the call of duty to protect more than just a minister's public image! While based in Sandbanks Jake's investigations bring him face to face with a generation of hate-fuelled revenge, greed and international drug deals that operate under a covert cloak of respectability. Calling in favours and using the best of his well-established contacts Jake starts to see beyond the brief. Partnered with his highly able colleague Vince Sharp and also seemingly 'landed' with agent Fiona Price, who has her own agenda that unfolds with every turn of this action-packed novel, Jake makes progress that unnerves even his stony-faced employers. The action bounds by land and sea, the length of the UK to the Balearics and Africa... Can the drug barons in Dorset force Jake's hand and how long will it take before the stench of blackmail and murder cloud every lead, leaving the ex-army intelligence officer wondering who he can trust within his undercover lair - if in fact anyone? This epic thriller sees the true colours the KGB, greed, the Sicilian Mafia, international drug cartels, the Bosnian conflict, duplicitous forgery and ultimately blackmail at the highest level!

From the Author of, 'The Constantine Legacy ', Shroud of Concealment and The Chimera Code. Andrew Towning once again brings together an action packed cliffhanger that moves at a relentless pace! This second edition (re-proofed and edited) of Dead Men Don't Bite is composed with intrigue, suspense and larger-than-life characters. Dead Men Don't Bite, sees Jake Dillon recalled back to London after a covert operation in Cuba by his stalwart boss, Edward Levenson-Jones. The order has come from former Prime Minister, Sir Lucius Stagg because an international crisis is looming. The wreck of a World War Two Nazi U-boat has been discovered in a subterranean cavern on the treacherous northern coast of the Channel Island of Jersey. It's exact location remains a mystery, as the man who made the discovery is deliberately mowed down on a crossing by a hit and run driver, leaving him in a deep coma. In the U-boat is Nazi gold bullion and the Spear of Destiny along with other long forgotten secrets. The Spear - a mystical spearhead, that has been chronicled throughout history, which Hitler believed bestowed upon him the power to be undefeated in battle. Dillon works tirelessly against the clock to find the U-boat, but French billionaire Hugo Malakoff wants to stop Dillon recovering the spear for H.M. Government, he wants to claim it and its untold powers for himself. Malakoff is a fanatical fascist, obsessed by power and the deluded vision of a New World Order. Sweeping from London to Jersey and back with ever-growing momentum, Dead Men Don't Bite brings together a remarkable set of heroes and villains in the most desperate struggle of their lives. It is a complex, brilliantly executed story of highly-explosive secrets, wartime betrayal and extreme danger above and below water.

Strip back the first engaging layer of Powder Diamonds - and find yourself immersed in yet another stratum of dark drug dealings on an international scale. Dillon confronts an old demon that pushes him towards answers that some, on both sides of justice, may not want him to answer A lover of old, an unsatisfactory verdict of misadventure and today; enter two dealers who have the UK cocaine market in their pockets. From a Hong Kong prison, half of the deathly pair is released to return to Sandbanks on the UK's beautiful south coast. Just one last deal? Maybe? Literally But even thugs have conscience and emotions it seems when the consignment reveals unexpected cargo. Mid-level operators wreak chaos and bloody death throughout Europe as the deal speeds towards an international catastrophe. Where are the secrets coming from that are making their way into North Korea?It is up to Dillon, his Swedish side-kick, and the team at Ferran & Cardini, old and new, to stop the influx of white poison onto UK streets, to save the lives of the kidnapped in darkest Dorset and to expose the international corruption that has seeped in from the very top...Dillon's past, his emotions and an unstoppable desire for the truth navigates his edge-of-life journey through this latest assignment, and puts Dillon face to face with international espionage, duplicitous drug deals, kidnap and sexual encounter... Gripping, only as one would expect from Towning

Towning has taken ex-army intelligence officer Jake Dillon to a new level in The Cutter, the sixth in his Dillon crime thriller series."Dillon is summoned from a year-long sabbatical by new head of Ferran & Cardini International operations, Brodie Stevens, he is pushed to extremes of emotion and endurance in a fight for justice and truth, the bloody picture of beauty and greed that can only be painted by a black conflict diamond.Thrown into a living nightmare of theft, lies and torture by an incestuous web of diamond dealers, each with far more to hide than just their invisible sources and ill-gotten bounty. Back in 2000 the mutilated bodies of two eminent diamond cutters are found in their respected Venice gallery. An unspeakably heinous crime had been committed - what of the motive, what of the murderer? Dillon's pain palpable, and failure - a failure that cost his closest ally her life.Today Jake Dillon is called by Stevens to the scene of the torture, murder and meticulous mutilation of a London diamond merchant. Should he take on the lost battle of 15-years ago, or walk away? The only prize Dillon understands is justice and retribution - his methods unorthodox and unforgiving. From London and Venice to New York, Sierra Leone and Sandbanks Dillon hunts for the truth and the prize that he has waited fifteen years to claim."

The seventh exciting assignment in the Jake Dillon Crime Thriller series. A contract killer is executed by garrotte, his body thrown into the English Channel from the boat transporting him to the UK. A Guernsey man whose complicity is driven solely to get enough money together to send his seriously ill daughter to Switzerland for life saving treatment. A billionaire who disappears into thin air but is held captive at his chateau in the Bretagne area of northern France. An Italian Interpol officer on the trail of corruption and murder who has romantic aspirations for Dillon.From Poole Harbour to the British Channel island of Guernsey. Dillon embarks on what will be one of the most dangerous assignments of his career. He discovers that his targets are no small-time criminals but ruthless men trafficking people, who will stop at nothing to protect a sinister secret and their fanatical fascist conspiracy to overthrow the British Government.