Böcker av Ian Kennedy Martin

Sheikh Abu Hasif died on the third floor of the Wellington Clinic in London on Monday 12th April, 1976. His assassin emptied a whole clip from an M38 submachine gun into the man. It took off most of his head and right shoulder and left the bed headboard and part of the floor and walls reworked in technicolour.Detective Inspector Jack Regan of the Flying Squad begins his investigation with a search for a group of mysterious murderers among the rich of Belgravia and the richer inhabitants of the high life of the French Riviera At first sight it appears that leading Arab oil sheikhs and entrepreneurs have been murdered to warn others of their kind to pay over multi-million dollar blackmail sums in order to stay alive. But with Jack Regan digging deeper, the truth turns out to be something else again...This is the third of three Sweeney novels published at the time of the original series.Ian Kennedy Martin is the creator of Thames Television's enormously popular TV series.

In a nightmare world of people controlled by an elite and their computers a desperate Harold Acteon seeking for justice has a violent but inevitable philosophy that freedom requires the freedom to murder. And from the outset the chase between the pursuer and his pursued can only resolve itself through slaughter and mayhem in this appalling rationale of destruction."What makes this novel so interesting is the extraordinary brilliance of its execution. Kennedy-Martin writes like someone as rapturously high on words and images as his characters on their 'jollies'. For most of the time one is stunned by his virtuosity. One has the impression of an immensely fecund, feverish intelligence to match the immensely fecund, feverish imagination..."Francis King, Spectator"The satisfying qualities of a well-planned thriller as well as the intellectual questing that is the essence of science fiction..."Isobel Murray, Financial Times

REKILL is the gripping story of a manhunt. The target is Van Dhoc. Tall, soft-spoken, a former captain of the North Vietnamese Army, he has a psychopaths obsession: to work his way, systematically and ruthlessly, down a list of participants in the brutal massacre at Da Loc, a village that had been wiped from the map one sunny afternoon in the war.John Leeming, former head of a Special Forces Camp in Vietnam has a past of his own to conceal - a past which had eventually driven him back to the anonymity of civilian life. For him, the summons to Paris by SHAPE represents an unexpected opportunity to remake his history. Then he witnesses the grisly aftermath of Van Dhoc's latest strike and derives his own obsession, to hunt down and either kill or be killed by the man capable of such madness. It is a mission that will take him as far as Albania and to the ancient citadel of Scutari, there to discover the most important military secret of the decade.

The eccentric and erratic detective Petroc Corrigan has recently had to resign from C.I.D. after a drunken high speed accident in a borrowed patrol car ending in a field and a dead cow. Needing to repair his finances he hires himself out to investigate the whereabouts of a missing two million Swiss Franc investment which he reckons no longer exists. He's right. But his journeys to Paris, Nice, Geneva and Tangier lead him onto a different path where a millionaire murderer for the sake of his business will show him and others no mercy.This is the second Petroc Corrigan novel by Ian Kennedy Martin, creator of the Sweeney and other T.V. series.

Jack Regan is sent to New York on the trail of an international plot involving millions in missing American military hardware.As usual Jack Regan's talent for extreme action means confrontation with the NYPD, the FBI, the CIA and organised crime, and also a mysterious and willing woman.This is the second of the three novels published at the time of the original series. The others are: 'Regan', and 'The Deal of the Century'.Ian Kennedy Martin is the creator of Thames Television's enormously popular TV series.

Newly resigned from the Welsh police to avoid being sacked ex-detective Petroc Corrigan is hired to investigate a bizarre murder in France with a background of the daily machinations of the Bordeaux wine trade. He is soon to confront the unlikely pairing of a psychopathic millionaire poet and his pet hitman. And also be faced with bloody encounters with others as dangerous. He'll soon have to learn that might can definitely become right, and wrong can just as easily become right. There are two more Corrigan novels on Lulu and Kindle. Ian Kennedy Martin is the creator of the Sweeney and other T.V. series.