Hot Property

By Matt Hilton

Hot Property - A short but action-packed adventure story featuring Joe Hunter and Rink from the best selling thriller series by Matt Hilton.

Also includes a bonus tale of revenge..."The Able Man" is a fast-moving action story in a style familiar to fans of Joe Hunter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matt Hilton
• Release date: Dec 8, 2025
• ISBN: 9798232837891

Matt Hilton

Matt Hilton is an expert in kempo jujitsu and holds the rank of fourth dan. He founded and taught at the respected Bushidokan Dojo, and he has worked in private security and for the Cumbria police department. Hilton is married and lives in England.

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Hot Property

A Joe Hunter short story plus a bonus tale of revenge

Matt Hilton

MHB

Copyright © 2025 Matt Hilton

All rights reserved

First edition published 2016

This edition published 2025

Hot Property originally appeared in The Strand Magazine 2013

The Able Man originally appeared in Death Toll 2: Hard Targets 2013

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The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.

Cover design by: Matt Hilton/Canva

Contents

Title Page

Copyright

HOT PROPERTY

I hope you enjoyed Hot Property, now please read on and equally enjoy this...BONUS TALE OF REVENGE.

THE ABLE MAN

Also by Matt Hilton

HOT PROPERTY

A Joe Hunter short story by Matt Hilton

The sun sent chisels of light into my brain. I squinted, placing one hand to my forehead to stave off the harsh reflections. The sun was over my shoulder, a strategic position chosen so that those guarding the house wouldn’t spot me. The drawback being, the same glare that put anyone off paying attention to my hiding place was now causing me the same problem. Earlier when the sun was higher in the sky the windows had reflected only trees and the road on the opposite canyon wall.

It was time to move.

Staying low and slow, I made my way down a game trail cut into the forest, one eye on the rugged track, one on the large house across the way. I’d dressed for the terrain in browns and greens, but any sudden movement might catch the attention of an alert watcher. Earlier I’d noted one of the muscle-bound guards scanning the area around the large house through binoculars. On a happier note he could have been watching through a riflescope.

The trail descended into the canyon. The trees that crowned the ridge thinned out as I progressed, and boulders and natural creases in the land became my choice of cover. Deeper down in the canyon the sun that played havoc moments ago was again my ally. Because of the lay of the land, the ridge now cast its inky shadow across my route. I’d be largely invisible, discounting any of the guards watching via thermal imaging technology. I doubted they’d go to such lengths, but you never could tell.

The six Ps, Hunter, I reminded myself.

During basic training as a soldier in Her Majesty’s armed services the concept of the ‘Six Ps’ was drilled into me. ‘Prior planning prevents a piss poor performance,’ a corporal had often reiterated. Wise words, but he was only partly correct. Over the subsequent years I’d learned that plans were transient and required constant rejigging dependent on the reactions of the enemy, or in this case my