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Two men on a collision course: one a ruthless gun for hire, and the other a gangland crime boss. Both men are damaged souls seeking redemption, but will it come in time before the killing begins?Jack Walters is a psychotic assassin with no conscience. His lack of emotion and detachment makes him the perfect killer. That is until he is charged with taking out his childhood friend, Lee Fletcher. Walters looks back over his childhood growing up in West London having escaped from a juvenile prison and falling in with a gangland boss. He befriends, Fletcher, the young prot g with designs on taking over the gang. As the two grow into young men, they are a force to be reckoned with as they spread their wings wide to challenge rival gangs.Fletcher has the brains and the contacts. Walters has the killer instinct.The only people in the world they trust are each other. As Walters receives the order to kill his friend, he knows this is to be his last kill.They are both changed men. They are both fighting their own demons over the things they have done. Walters knows that if he doesn't complete the job there is another waiting in the wings ready to take his place, and he fears he may be on her hit list too.Buy this book and then continue on to the sequel Vicky Rivers ★★★★★"Good read Looking forward to reading the sequel."Robert Miller

Vicky Rivers is a troubled woman, scarred by a violent childhood trauma that has turned her into a killer, but not just any killer, she is a highly skilled assassin in the employ of a powerful and enigmatic organisation, an organisation that harbours a deadly secret. Vicky has secrets and obsessions of her own, obsessions which will set her on a direct collision course with her employers as she seeks out the dangerous truth behind their clandestine research and the hunt for immortality.Following her revenge on her brother Jack, Vicky becomes obsessed with killing her nemesis, Talisa Hayes, a young Irish woman who keeps evading her. A one-time mark she failed to terminate, Vicky is now convinced that Hayes is part of a secret experiment by her employer, an organisation obsessed with obtaining immortality. Determined to kill Hayes once and for all, she goes off grid to chase her across the globe from Ireland, Canada, Los Angeles, Italy and Mexico. In pursuit is Sergio, an Italian investigator, recruited by Tomasz, the organisation's Polish handler. Sergio must catch up with Vicky and call in back up before she uncovers the truth. What Sergio discovers is far from what he's expecting. It's not the first time he's run into trouble, but it doesn't take him long to figure out he is no match for what is ahead.Again, here in Vicky Rivers we get a glimpse of the organisation manipulating world events, leaving behind echoes of their nefarious intent littered throughout the author's stories.★★★★★"Great sequel to The KillingNot disappointing as a sequel to the killing. C P Clarke is fast becoming my favourite author. Looking forward to the next release "Robert Miller

Who is John Cade? Who is he really?Waking up with the consciousness of a dead alien would be enough to drive anyone insane, but sanity is the least of Cade's problems as he tries to convince the world that we are not alone in the universe. A genius ahead of his time or simply a schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur? Vost, the head of the government's secret, and soon to be disbanded alien task force, is determined to uncover the truth as the story is blasted across the national press. At the upper levels of government ministers are vying for blood as they desperately seek the source of leaked classified secrets that Cade seems privy to. Locking Cade away in a secret location he is subjected to interrogation as his split personality is evaluated through the help of a Malachi, a counsellor from Africa. Abadd'on, Cade's alter ego, is dead. Or so his people think.But did Abadd'on ever exist at all? That's what Malachi has to discover as Cade reveals his story. The roaming warrior race of Furi'on, with its advanced technology, its politics and religion spanning across a desolate universe, seems too convenient a tale to be true, concocted by the mind of a madman who is risking all as his family is torn apart. Cade's descriptions of another race lead to a search of the stars and the fear of a threat that may well exist outside of Cade's mind. It's a search that will take them to the core of an alien civilisation and beyond.Regular readers of Clarke's novels will identify with the probing voice of split personalities, examining what makes them tick in an alternate universe manipulated by a secretive organisation seeking to control all. ★★★★★"Superb psychological sci-fi with a great twist you didn't see coming . It leaves you forever wanting more and you can't stop reading and I highly recommend " John Rhodes