The Damage

By Howard Linskey

David Blake is a worried man. He should be enjoying the high life now he's Newcastle's 'Top Boy', the man who controls everything in the city that's worth controlling. The money keeps on rolling in and Blake is sharing his life with the girl that he loves, Sarah Mahoney. Shame he had to murder her father to save his own skin but at least she doesn't know anything about that.

Blake never wanted to be boss but who else is savvy enough to deal with all of the firm's problems? Newly-crowned Glasgow crime lord, Alan Gladwell, wants to do business with the firm and the deal makes sense but can Blake really trust the man whose brother he brutally murdered?

Then one of his men takes two bullets in the back and someone tries to take Blake out. As he struggles to stay in control, Blake is in a race against time to find his potential assassin and discover the truth in The Damage.

'Think Geordie Shore meets The Wire and there's a TV masterpiece out there waiting to happen' - The Times

'Vicious, violent and unashamedly amoral' - The Daily Mail

Look out for the other books in Howard Linskey's David Blake series, The Drop and The Dead, as well as his Second World War thrillers: Hunting the Hangman and Ungentlemanly Warfare

• Language: English
• Publisher: No Exit Press
• Release date: Mar 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781842436493

Howard Linskey

Howard Linskey’s other acclaimed thrillers include The Drop, also available from Witness Impulse.