Stephen Bentley

Broschiertes Buch

Mercy

A Detective Matt Deal Thriller

Herausgeber: Lee, S.

Beschreibung

His daughter was taken. He'll never get her back. Set in the near future, Brit Matt Deal marries into a wealthy Florida family. Mercy, his fifteen-year-old daughter, is the glue in his rocky marriage to Lorey. His life is changed forever after Mercy is brutally sexually assaulted on a Destin beach leaving her in a persistent vegetative state. Trusting the local detectives to bring the rapists to justice, mixed martial arts expert Deal concentrates in vain on his Florida gym business, only to have his world further explode on learning the men responsible for his daughter's injuries may escape justice. Deal is isolated and at his wit's end after his rich father-in-law sends death threats blaming him for all these ills. Who can he turn to? Where can he go? What will he do? Who can he trust? Will he return to a post-Brexit Britain or ultimately will he seek revenge? Fans of Jack Reacher, Barry Eisler, and any vigilante justice novel will love this book.

Autor

Stephen Bentley is an award-winning author. Of his first true crime novel, UNDERCOVER, screenwriter and novelist, writer of 'Julie' BBC Drama, Rob Gittins, said, "The fascinating and extraordinary inside story from the man who was actually there." Of his later fiction works, British crime author, Pat MacDonald said, "I knew when I read the author's first book 'Undercover: Operation Julie' although non-fiction that he could make the transition to writing fiction; I was right. He has an ease of language that lends itself to storytelling; he tells it as if he was there in the plot and why shouldn't he having been an undercover cop in the real world? Not that Steve Regan is meant to be him, but having the experience means he can do whatever he wants with his fictional characters, and they will always be believable." Like some other authors, his life experience is broad and unconventional. He spent 30 years in the legal system, first as a detective for 15 years then as barrister plying his trade as "a wig for hire" in London and the English provinces. He was a pioneering undercover cop on Operation Julie and as a barrister defended in trials involving murder, rape, drug importation, other serious crimes and defended soldiers at courts-martial. He worked in a warehouse. Rode a big motorbike as a London courier. He drove big articulated trucks and taught how to drive them. He also worked as a hospital porter twice. He drove chilled delivery vans in London in the 1990s to fund his law degree and bar school studies. He spent the last two years of his working life driving plant and operating heavy filtration machinery for Europe's largest water company. His work mates soon recognised his advocacy skills and elected him as their shop steward. He has now written over twenty books. Two of them have been optioned and in development; one as a TV drama series, and one as a drama doc. You can find Stephen at stephenbentley.info His wife is a better person than him in all regards and is a source of support in his goal of entertaining readers. She has also made him a better person.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hendry Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9786219619004
• ISBN-10: 6219619005
• Artikelnr.: 58297127