Pieces for the Wicked

By Geoff Cook

Trouble-shooting UK accountant, Mark Redgrave, discovers that nothing is as it should be when he moves in to take charge of an ailing public company. Embroiled in an international web of corporate deception, internal politics and fraud, he finds himself dealing with a front for funding Islamic terrorism and a plot to install a despotic dictator in Iraq.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Geoff Cook
• Release date: Jan 14, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452325606

Geoff Cook

“Geoff was born in East London as the Second World War came to an end.Following a traditional grammar school upbringing, he was convinced by his stepfather to give up the notion of becoming a journalist and get a proper job as an articled clerk to an old-established firm of City chartered accountants at the princely sum of 20 guineas per month.Geoff’s professional career took him to Brazil for five years and then back to London where he joined an investment bank with interests in the world of film making and pop music, after which he branched out by establishing a chain of retail stores. An ambitious move into the leisure industry in Portugal eventually saw him back into the world of financial alchemy in the City of London where he participated in the spectacular rise of a fledgling public company, and sadly, as the recession of the early 80s took hold, its demise.More recently, true to the adage, “cook by name and cook by nature,” Geoff’s holdings have included interests, not only in a hotel chain, a leisure complex, and a water park, but also a restaurant ship on Canary Wharf. Prior to his retirement, Geoff ran two restaurants on the Algarve.Since he started his first street newspaper and lending library as a child, Geoff’s passion has been writing and will continue to be so until the ink dries up.Geoff’s first full length novel, Pieces for the Wicked, was published in 2010 and deals with the financial intrigue and white collar terrorist activity at a time when the aftermath of the Iraq war show that the ticking time bomb of civil and religious unrest could easily be manipulated to provide a vacuum for the rise of another dictator once the occupying forces have retreated.Since then, he has to his credit The Sator Square, a suspense thriller, taking a number of contemporary themes and weaving them in into a storyline involving savage revenge, family and ruthless commercial objectives. At its heart, is a terrorist plot and the desire to manipulate religious extremism as a tool to achieve far darker and sinister objectives.In 2019, Rotercracker Copyrights released Deaf WIsh, a dark, contemporary family drama set in Wales, Northern Portugal and Spain’s Costa de La Luz. Gil Hart is a man seeking reconciliation with the wife and two sons he abandoned sixteen years earlier for a younger woman and a new life in Spain.As he faces the prospect of a reunion with his bitter ex-wife at their younger son’s wedding little does he realise the need for revenge of those he cast aside and the lengths to which they are prepared to go to exact retribution.Geoff's latest novel, The Last Rights, was originally scheduled for release last October, but delayed because of the pandemic until February, 2021. It tells the story of Rita Krakowski, a Polish Jew who, seventy years after witnessing the greatest robbery and criminal conspiracy of all time, finds her life in danger as the secrets locked in a vault at a Lisbon bank are set to expose a cover-up with far-reaching financial and political implicationsGeoff has also written two three-act stage plays in the “Bloodlines” Trilogy. The controversial “Painful Truth” and “The Last Chapter” have been published on Stageplays and will shortly be available on Smashwords.He derives his inspiration from old timers like Frederick Forsyth, John Le Carré, Len Deighton and, more recently from a wide variety of contemporary crime writers including the very talented Sabine Durrant and Alex Marwood with their psychological thrillers.

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