The Ferret Files

By Phillip Legard

Introducing Ferret: London’s premier Detecting Consultant.

Set in contemporary London, the Ferret Files is the tale of a rugby playing Mergers and Acquisitions consultant, under investigation for insider trading, who turns detective in a bid to track down a set of missing files.

Giving up the high life isn’t as easy as he’d hoped; despite his reservations, he’s easily pressured by his secret society pals to return to the City, defying the impending criminal charges. Using his psychic gift, Ferret doggedly pursues the files across the capital. He soon discovers he’s not the only one with an interest in finding them. Characters from his dead father’s past catch up with him, including the ebullient Sir Edward, a founding member of Projekt XIII, who has powers more incredible than his own.

Pursued by the Old Boys of the establishment, his superiors and a mysterious girl in black, a government conspiracy unravels around him. Will Ferret win the day?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Release date: Nov 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781785896637

Phillip Legard

Phillip began his writing career at the age of six, when he had a letter published in a children's comic that netted him a grand total of 50p (worth 50p in today's money). Over the years he's written articles for newspapers, computer magazines and computer journals, with the odd foray into music (he discovered after just 6 gigs that it was much more fun getting trashed with the band, than watching the band get trashed and writing about it).A few birthdays back, Phillip found that writing reports for government that no-one reads pays far better than writing 1,000 word articles for magazines with country-wide distribution. Having moved away from writing about things he was interested in, he started writing stories about people instead.At a friend's 30th birthday party, Phillip met Richard Argent and was blown away by his artwork. He made a drunken commitment that night, that if he ever wrote a novel, Richard was going to illustrate it. They laughed and parted company, but it just goes to prove, sometimes drunken promises do in fact come true.Having spent most of his working life in London, Phillip moved out West, to Bath. When not consulting in cyber-security, he makes a wicked salsa with chillies he grows himself. He's a big fan of gin, cider and real ale and recently bought shares in the village pub, which is now a community asset and reopened its doors in early 2018.