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Samuel Carver: the real-time hit
17th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
So here's the plan ... Samuel Carver's an angry man. He wants to take someone out. Someone very well-known. A very senior politician - a real one. He's going to be planning and executing the hit over the next few days.
You can follow the action on my Twitter or Facebook pages ... then all will be revealed with the release of an online short story at a time and place to be... -
Apologies for my absence: I’ve been ravaging Africa
6th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Look, I know I should have blogged weeks ago, but I got started on my fourth book, and things took an unexpected turn, and the next thing I knew, rhinos were being poached, families were being slaughtered on their private game reserve, teenage daughters were being kidnapped and botched rescue missions were leading to frenzied scenes of mortal combat in obscure villages in Mozambique. And my hero, Samuel Carver, still...
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Forget about Gordon or Dave, vote Cain!
22nd June 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
My publisher rang me up the other day to tell me the good news that The Accident Man was on the shortlist for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award which may have a wacky name, but is actually a great award, presented at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival in July. It's a bit odd, being on this year's list, since the book came out in 2007, but...
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I really don’t want to alarm you, but …
4th June 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
… there’s something you need to know. I think a lot about killing people.
I consider, at great length, original and effective means of taking peoples’ lives. Recently, for example, I planned, in extreme detail, an assassination attempt on the President of the United States that would, I believe, be impossible for the US Secret Service to combat.
But before the NSA and GCHQ spooks who track our emails and blog posts get...




