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Pagan Justice
Pagan Justice
Pagan Justice
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Peter James, International best-selling author said of this book, "Jags is a promising and extremely talented new novelist.”

All proceeds from sales of this book will go to Rottingdean and Saltdean Lions Club Charitable Trust Fund

Sometimes it’s circumstances that dish out the misery and you just have to put up with it. Sometimes it’s other people doing the dishing. Then, when the pain gets too bad, even the most law abiding citizen may just start pushing back.

True, in the case of Brenda and Sean it was life that dealt the bad hand but Karl, orphaned as a teenager by a drunken driver, on the run in Europe, became the tool of drug dealers and whore masters. There’s Lydia, the victim of a violent ex-fiancé who has lost her family and international sporting career. George has also had his career as a senior police officer trashed by a gangland Mr Big. The life of twins, Andrea and Ryan, was ruined by a fraudster and a suicide. Terrorists took Paddy’s legs and you don’t want to know what happened to Sandy!

Barclay is a gangland boss who needs Ryan’s specialist skills to commit a crime and will do anything to coerce his assistance. So Ryan is faced with the prospect of dire consequences or a long prison sentence.

But maybe ... just maybe ... there’s a third option. Is it possible that a group of ordinary people, unskilled in the arts of crime, could fight back? Could generate their own justice? Pagan justice?

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Release dateJul 11, 2014
ISBN9780992822606
Pagan Justice
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Jags Arthurson

Jags Arthurson is an author based in Brighton, Sussex, UK. He has lived, worked and travelled in over forty countries and had various careers including research chemist, a director in a Middle Eastern construction company, a business analyst, an IT infrastructure expert and a business consultant. For more than twenty-five years he has been the managing director of his own company. He thinks he may now be retired but can’t be sure as many old clients still have his phone number.He is now enjoying life even more and dedicating it to the three things he loves: his family, his charity work and his writing ... but don’t ask him to put them in order of priority.You can contact Jags directly on jags@sortium.com.

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