The Killing Machine Series

A broken city. Joe was a soldier in the British army. Now he's part of the underworld in London's east end. A hunted man. Joe is on the run from Hackney's most vicious gang. He doesn't know why, but they want him dead. A ray of hope. A twelve-year-old girl, a runaway, needs Joe's protection. She'll save his life. But can he save hers?

Ex-boxer, ex-paratrooper, Joe once had meaning in his life. People who cared for him, people who needed him. Then he lost everything, and now he is a hitman for London's most vicious criminals. Brenda was the only woman who ever loved him. The only woman who believed he could escape the underworld. She died protecting others: now Joe wants revenge on her killers. With nothing left to lose, Joe prepares for the fight of his life... This is a poignant thriller about love, revenge and redemption from a superb new voice in British crime.

Fighting is all he knows. Before he became an assassin in London's underworld, Joe was a bare-knuckle boxer. Before that he was a soldier in the British army. But nothing prepared him for this. Revenge drives him forward. On the streets of East London, a turf war is raging. And Joe has no choice but to join the fight. It's the only way he can find out what happened to the woman he loved – the only way he can bring her killers to justice. Either they die, or he does...