Suddenly Joe was back in the job and doing what he did best… becoming someone else.
Mixing with the bad guys in order to bring them down.
Three years ago, after an undercover police operation went disastrously wrong, CID officer Joe Clayton lost his career and his family. Forced to adopt a new identity, he lives under the radar, taking whatever jobs he can find. Always looking over his shoulder, always hunted.
Now living on the tiny south coast island of Terror’s Reach, home to rival business tycoons Robert Felton and Valentin Nasenko, Joe works as a bodyguard to Nasenko’s wife, Cassie, and her two
children.
But when a burning summer’s day explodes into violence, and a murderous gang targets the ultra-exclusive community, only one man stands a chance of saving the residents from annihilation.
Joe must draw upon all his skills and determination to keep them alive.
But nothing is as it seems on Terror’s Reach, and a long night of betrayal and murder leaves Joe fighting for his own survival …
Tom Bale was born in Brighton in 1966. He left school at eighteen and worked a number of jobs before starting a career in the insurance industry. He managed a claims office in Yorkshire for five years before returning to Sussex for a far more rewarding – and exhausting – stint as a
househusband.
After years of collecting rejections slips, his publishing breakthrough came in 2006 and he has now been a full – time writer for more than fifteen years. His books have sold more than half a million copies and been translated into various languages.
An avid reader of crime and thrillers, he lives on the Sussex coast where he loves to cycle, swim in the sea and spend time with his grandchildren.
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My thoughts: Joe Clayton is a man with secrets, but it isn’t his that might just get him killed. Working for a dodgy Ukrainian businessman Valentin Nasenko as a bodyguard, his duties mainly involve Cassie Nasenko and her children Jaden and Sofia.
After a botched kidnapping event, Joe races back to the island home where Valentin is conducting business. Joe finds the whole place under siege from a gang of thieves, they’ve taken the residents hostage and want to get into fellow business magnate Robert Felton’s infamous safe, supposedly full of gold.
Things have gone a bit sideways however and the gang are beginning to get tense, this was supposed an easy job, and now it isn’t. When Felton’s own security team appear, things go from bad to worse. All Joe wants to do is stay alive and get back to keeping Cassie and her children safe. But that might not prove to be so easy.
There’s a lot happening here, little of it good, lots of it violent and bloody, Joe might be a man whose past is full of pain, but he wants a future, one where he might be able to fix things, and to do that, he has to survive. He’s quick thinking, clever and prepared to fight his way free if he has to. Which is handy when thrown into a fight to the death with a violent brute.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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