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An assassin haunted by his past. Two young refugees out of their depth and in need of his special talents. John Milton is no stranger to the world's seedy underbelly. But when the former British secret service agent comes up against a ruthless human trafficking ring, he'll have to fight harder than ever to conquer the evil in his path. After Milton meets a refugee who lost a sister to people smugglers, he travels through war-torn Libya and the murkiest parts of Italy and France to get the girl back.

Mark Dawson's Group Fifteen Files. Quick, lightning-paced, action.

They call him 'Scorpion'. No-one knows his real name, and the only people who have seen his face are dead. He works for the highest bidder, and he's never missed a target.

The assassin appears in London with the name of an investigative reporter on his list. But has Scorpion met his match? The reporter has a protector - John Milton. And Milton might be the only man in the world more dangerous than him.

Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. In this second dip into his case files (see 1000 Yards for a further novella), Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15.

Bryan Duffy is Witness X - a government agent implicated in a national scandal and banished to Spain until the agenda can be moved on. But when North Korean hit men attack a seeming innocent on the streets of London, Duffy is called back to the fold. He is tasked with finding the woman's assailants and bringing them to justice. Why has the woman been attacked? Duffy investigates and finds himself sucked into a whirlwind of action and mayhem that is particularly well suited to his special set of skills....

Bjorn Thorsson joined the Special Air Service to forget the horrors of his childhood. He killed for Queen and country, and he was good at it. He quits the army and settles down, looking for a quieter life. When his beautiful sister, Gudrun, finds herself in trouble with the owner of a hedge fund, Bjorn promises to get her out of danger. But there’s another factor in play. Group 15, a clandestine government agency, has plans for the financier, and Bjorn is in their way. Bjorn must outwit the Group in the streets of London and in the Highlands of Scotland if he is to protect his sister and survive.

They gunned down her husband and kidnapped her daughter, and now the debt needs to be repaid. It's a blood feud she didn't start but is going to finish. Beatrix has already crossed one name off her Kill List. Her second target is a mercenary being held hostage by Somali terrorists. Can she infiltrate the most dangerous failed state on the planet and scrub him off the List, too?

John Milton's life is about to change. The former government assassin follows a lead to Manila that he hopes will transform everything. But things don't go to plan. He never expected to wake up in an unfamiliar hotel room beside a dead body. And, unfortunately for him, Milton doesn't remember a thing about the night before.... Thrown into a gruesome Filipino prison, he puts together the clues of his betrayal. With no allies and even less hope, Milton must use his wits to escape and take revenge....

A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up there. She contacts disgraced ex-detective Atticus Priest and the two of them trace the bone to a graveyard in the nearby village of Imber. But the village was abandoned after it was purchased by the Ministry of Defence to train the army, so why have bodies been buried in the graveyard since the church was closed?

On Christmas Eve, DCI Mackenzie Jones is called to a shooting at a remote farmhouse. Ralph Mallender believes his father lies dead inside. When three more bodies are discovered, it's clear a festive family gathering has turned into a gruesome tragedy. At first it seems like an open and shut case: a murder suicide committed by Ralph's volatile brother Cameron. Then new evidence makes Mack suspect the man who reported the crime is in fact the perpetrator. But Mack isn't the only one with a stake in the case.

John Milton travels to Bali in search of a new identity, but he can't even manage the flight without finding someone who needs his help. A beautiful woman falls ill and confesses that she has swallowed packages of cocaine in order to smuggle it across the border. She has been forced to work as a mule by a Yakuza gang in Tokyo who are holding her child to guarantee her compliance. Milton decides that's unacceptable and promises to lend her his help.

In the rain-soaked Pacific Northwest, John Milton is drawn into a desperate fight against a pharmaceutical giant when a painkiller addiction drives an ordinary man to rob banks—and exposes a company willing to destroy lives for profit...

Als ein Bauer in einem abgelegenen Feld in der Nähe von Salisbury Knochen entdeckt, wird Atticus Priest in ein dunkles Geheimnis verwickelt, das bis zu den gewalttätigen Unruhen von 1830 zurückreicht. Als ein aktueller Mordfall mit längst begrabenen Wahrheiten verflochten wird, muss Atticus die Wahrheit hinter einem brutalen Erbe aufdecken – bevor weiteres Blut vergossen wird.

Il y a dix ans, Beatrix Rose était à la tête d'une équipe secrète d'assassins à la solde du gouvernement britannique. Lorsqu'elle découvre que le commandant de l'escadron est corrompu, il envoie cinq de ses hommes pour l'éliminer, mais ils échouent. Cet échec va maintenant leur coûter cher... Il y a six noms sur la liste de cibles à abattre de Beatrix. Deux ont déjà été rayés et le suivant est déjà dans sa ligne de mire.

Tauchen Sie ein in eine der erfolgreichsten Kriminal-Serien der Welt! Der britische Geheimdienst hat ihn erschaffen - Jetzt wollen sie ihn vernichten. John Milton war ein Attentäter für den britischen Geheimdienst. Er gehörte zur absoluten Elite: kaltblütig, gnadenlos, spurlos. Doch jahrelange Auftragsmorde haben ihre Spuren hinterlassen. Milton wird von Schuldgefühlen geplagt und von den Geistern seiner Vergangenheit heimgesucht. In einem Versuch, Buße zu tun, beginnt er jenen zu helfen, die von der Gesellschaft im Stich gelassen wurden.

Der ehemalige MI6-Offizier Charlie Cooper findet sich unvermittelt in einer riskanten Mission wieder, als in Macao ein Kollege mit dem Codenamen NORTH STAR verschwindet. Cooper eilt so schnell es geht nach New York, weil er glaubt, dass die Russen ihren schockierenden Plan auf der bevorstehenden UN-Vollversammlung enthüllen werden. In der Tarnung eines einfachen IT-Technikers infiltriert er die russische Delegation und geht ein gefährliches Bündnis mit Irina ein, einer desillusionierten Diplomatin, die in einer gewalttätigen Beziehung mit einem skrupellosen Geheimdienstoffizier gefangen ist.

Un assassin hanté par son passé. Deux jeunes réfugiés en eaux troubles qui ont besoin de ses talents. John Milton n’est pas étranger au monde glauque des bas-fonds. Mais confronté à un impitoyable réseau de traite d’êtres humains, l’ancien agent des services secrets britanniques devra se battre plus dur que jamais pour vaincre le mal qui se dresse sur son chemin.

Charlie Cooper, ein Mitglied der verdeckten Gruppe fünfzehn, reist nach Israel, um seinen entfremdeten Halbbruder Freddy zu finden, der geheimnisvollerweise verschwunden ist. Freddys Verbindungen zu NetGuardian, einer CyberSecurity-Firma, die in zweifelhafte Aktivitäten verwickelt ist, führt Cooper in ein gefährliches Netz aus Industriespionage, hochmoderner Überwachungstechnologie und der skrupellosen Welt der Geheimdienste.

Milton is keeping a low profile in London when he meets Eddie Fabian. Fabian confesses that he is considering suicide, and that the reason for his depression was the abuse that he suffered as a child. Milton offers to help, but, before he can, Eddie is found dead in circumstances that Milton considers suspicious. And then events take a turn that no-one could have anticipated....

Ils ont kidnappé sa fille. Grosse erreur. Beatrix Rose était l'assassin le plus dangereux d'un escadron de la mort au service du gouvernement. Mais lorsqu'elle est prise en embuscade et trahie par son équipe, elle est obligée de se réfugier dans la clandestinité. Des années plus tard, elle émerge des bas-fonds de Hong-Kong, fermement décidée à se venger des six personnes qui l'ont trahie. Cela pourrait lui coûter la vie. Mais une chose est sûre, ça leur coûtera la leur.

Charlie Cooper wird nach Prag geschickt, um den Anführer einer Gruppe rechtsextremer Hooligans ausfindig zu machen – und zu eliminieren –, der für den Mordes an einem Interpol-Agenten verantwortlich ist. Dienstlich hat Cooper eine letzte Verwarnung erhalten, und es wird von ihm erwartet, dass er so unauffällig wie möglich ein- und ausreist und nur die Leiche seiner Zielperson zurücklässt.