Karl Hill

Adam Black is facing his most mysterious case yet. When a stranger gives Black a book and tells him the book holds the key to the mystery surrounding his wife's murder, Black dismisses the event as nothing more than the ramblings of a mad man. Then Black is, called to a meeting with a Hollywood movie star, Victor Cromwell, who is shooting a new film in Glasgow. At the meeting, Victor makes a very strange request that will throw Black's life into turmoil....

A reclusive war veteran takes on an enemy closer to home, in this chilling novel by the author of the Adam Black thrillers . . . John Smith has never been the same since Afghanistan, even after settling into much more peaceful surroundings in the mountains of Scotland. However, he finds some sense of purpose in helping a fourteen-year-old boy who is troubled by his mother's abusive boyfriend and wants Smith to teach him how to fight back. ...

A Scottish special forces veteran investigates an old friend's murder as a favour to his grieving widow-but he may go to his own grave without any answers . . . When Adam Black attends the funeral of an old friend, Desmond Gallagher-a human rights lawyer shot dead while jogging-the widow asks for his help, and he can't say no. She confides that her husband had been threatened by a group calling itself the Remus Syndicate, and Black is soon plunged...