Bøger af John Morritt

Enjoying a quiet life after moving to Cornwall, Ed and TJ couldn't be happier. Their tranquillity, however, is shattered when a bitter resident drags up their past - a violent and tragic past they dearly want to forget. When Ed unearths a 150-year-old mystery while renovating their house, and as they set about investigating it, they uncover damning details that takes a terrifying turn, exacerbating the resident's hostility towards them. Their situation becomes worse when Ed's friend, DCI Bob Brown, asks him for a favour. Ed knows it wouldn't just be a case of 'give Roly a knuckle sandwich and job done'; life is never that simple for Ed. With recent events and his fragile mental health, Ed is caught in a situation where he has to choose between breaking his promise to TJ to stay out of trouble, or help Bob. There is only one outcome and soon Ed finds himself drawn in the criminal underworld of ex-London gangster Harry Daniels.

At the tender age of five, Peter Edwards witnesses the horrific death of his father by a drunk driver. Twenty years later, the nightmares that tortured him for a few years after the accident inexplicably return to haunt him, leading to the breakdown in his relationship with his girlfriend, Janet, and destroying his teaching career. After a particularly graphic nightmare one night, Peter vividly recalls the face of the killer. He is filled with anger so strong, that he becomes consumed with avenging his father's death. Though many dream of revenge, they lack the courage to act. Not Peter Edwards. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth he tells himself as he embarks on a terrifying trail of vengeance.

When Soho club owner Johnny Gold, tells Ed "I could use someone like you." Ed jumps at the opportunity of a job as a bouncer. Little does he know that he is entering a world of sleaze and corruption that will put his very life in danger, because Johnny has a hidden agenda. It is only exotic dancer TJ that stops him walking away but even TJ has a secret. After Johnny frames Ed for murder, he flees the club in an maelstrom of violence and is pursued the length of the country by two of Soho's most ruthless gangs, because Ed has something that belongs to Johnny and they all want it back - at any cost. Surviving a terrifying orgy of death and violence, Ed heads back to London believing his ordeal is finally over, unaware that his real nightmares are just beginning.

Frank Smith looks forward to realising his dream of a comfortable life in sunny climes, after serving twenty years in prison for attempted murder. His dream, however, shatters within days of becoming a free man, when he learns that duplicitous gangland boss Maurice Blair, now respectable businessman and head of a property development company, refuses to give him what is rightfully his. As Frank unravels the web of deception spun by Blair, he returns to a life of crime, while he faces an uncertain future in a world that has moved on leaving him behind.