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Anna - Quentin Cope

With a focused mind and always complete dedication to the plan, Anna Petrov, trained assassin, has only three things to consider in her life. The first would always be her current contract; its research, definition and execution. The second would be the discovery of the whereabouts of someone named 'Ginger', a freelance professional assassin responsible for the murder of Gorky Valentin, her lover and father of her unborn child. The third would be the murder of the mysterious contract killer 'Ginger', face to face … with her cold hand resting upon his!

ASSASSIN - Quentin Cope

The richest man in the world would have to be 'dealt with', but not before robbing him of the 'key' to a mining empire built on the dwindling supply of 'rare earth' minerals.

They would send the most accomplished professional assassin in the business to do the job. Her success or failure, in one final mission, would decide whether or not the civilised world tips over the edge in a scramble to capture the planet's remaining stocks! That might well have been the 'end-game' for some, but it's not the way Anna Petrov saw it! The trail of bodies the assassin leaves behind is witness to a determination to win the day and maintain world calm. But that was until a final unexpected confrontation with her mentor, Russian SVR General Boronovsky, forced him to play his Ace card.

Would it stop the most feared contract killer in the world in her tracks … or would the frustrated Russian Secret Service Supremo be proven wrong? However, whatever Boronovsky told her, the end result was not how Anna Petrov saw it. Control of the dwindling world supplies of rare earth minerals is without doubt the prize, but without the 'key' the world's intelligence agencies will be forced to watch events from the sidelines. Unfortunately, that's not the way Ted Carter, head of the American CIA saw it … and in a final face to face with Anna Petrov, everyone held their breath, hoping to God he was right!

Somewhere in time between 'Downton' and 'Sanditon' lays 'Allworth Park', an intense but racy early 20th Century Historical Drama; a story of forbidden love, childbirth out of wedlock, a marriage failure that might well have triggered the great depression and an air battle over England labelled as 'The Battle of Britain', an act that would remain to this day referred to as 'their greatest hour!'.

However, more than one fight for the affections of air ace Alexander Willis-Faber is eventually revealed with the sensual Jean Seabrook in competition with Lady Victoria, attentive wife to 'Zander' and mother of his child. Covering the period from 1901 to 1940, Allworth Park will concentrate your mind on events of the day, the exacting lives of people of privilege and the sex lives of those with something more to prove than just being part of a particular class!

Gay lesbian affairs, racy sexual encounters, financial skulduggery at the very heart of government, a duel at daybreak and a vivacious young soul suddenly extinguished due to the deceitful promises of a philandering young soldier. This is life at Allworth Park, a sometimes salacious storytelling you will surely find completely captivating from the very start.

  A Billion Dollar Double Cross - Quentin Cope

When three paintings worth over a billion dollars are stolen, professional thief catcher Damon Kendrick must find and return them or the International re-insurance business might well collapse inward, making the crash of 2008 look like a mere rehearsal for a much bigger event! The bodies start to pile up; someone needs to get on top of it all, but it will take a lot more than just money and connections in a plot that contains more twists and turns than a sunbathing rattlesnake.

 EpidemiC - Quentin Cope

'Billy was not a brutal man ... but he was capable of brutal things!'

It all started with a WWII tunnel and a promise from a liar. However, it would end with the cruel mass murder of skeleton souls buried alive in the inky blackness of a tomb from hell.

It's 2025. Ambitious top criminal Billy Bright meets an engaging French aristocrat who has drawings of the tunnel. Billy plans to make a new excavation from England and meet up with the original Nazi workings. A mass of several million giant, blind rats are released attacking everything with a heartbeat. Blustering Prime Minster Randolph 'Randy' Francis is not in complete control. The animals carry an unknown HIV related virus. Infections quickly turn into an epidemic. The death toll is rising. Martial Law is declared, gagging the Press whilst a vaccine is desperately sought by a team of specialists in Edinburgh.

But something bad is now happening in the UK. France, along with EU leaders demand assurances ... or else they will blockade the British Isles, putting a whole nation in economic lockdown. The Americans, firmly in the mix with threats from an unhinged President, tell the EU he thinks they should simply 'nuke' England and 'solve the problem'. Such an explosive situation can only have one outcome as President Dwight Barker takes matters into his own hands. A nuclear missile submarine stands to in the Atlantic Ocean. Barker gives the order. This must be the end ... or is it?

EPIDEMIC is a fast moving psychological suspense, medical thriller connecting secret Nazi projects in WWII with a modern world of corrupt affairs of state and threats of epidemic disease. It lays bare the responsibilities of government and the fraudulent public school politics that can often define it. You will be locked in from the very first page ... but not for the squeamish!

Sparrowhawk - Quentin Cope

The Accidental Death of a Dead Man

It had been reported to South Shields Police HQ as a straightforward road accident. Perhaps it was but the crash scene gives rise to more questions than answers. Then there is Merrick Nethercutt. Could he just be a frustrated writer and novelist, hungry for literary success ... or a narcissistic psychopath prepared to commit murder in order to claim a place at the table of world prize winning authors? Northumbrian police master sleuth, Detective Inspector Sparrowhawk, is tasked with finding out. But Sparrowhawk's boss, DCI Hoppingdon wants to know what there is to investigate? Did a carefully planned and perfectly executed murder take place, or was the victim's death the result of a clear-cut car accident. One theory requires a mountain of irrefutable evidence and the other a simple autopsy report. 'Too much speculation and not enough hard evidence ...' is how Hoppingdon puts it, offering his chain smoking Inspector just twenty four more hours to put the case to bed ...or put it in the bin. A good bit of extra luck might be required to add some badly needed momentum. This finely crafted British detective suspense thriller will show D.I. Sparrowhawk at his irritatingly calm best as he unravels the carefully prepared scenario to a murder that possibly never happened! One thing is for sure, in his world, there is a price to pay for everything but who would be settling the account on this one?

The Ludlum Prediction - Quentin Cope

When a geeky computer specialist, a fanatical right wing religious sect and some of the most frighteningly powerful Foreign Intelligence Agencies in the world collide, 'The Ludlum Prediction' is born. Will there be a 'second coming', or simply everyone coming second in a plot full of intrigue, double cross and spectacularly failed military adventures. The facts are there ... the figures are there. You decide..! However, what appears to be the end could in fact be only the beginning. The evidence is there, the figures add up, the prophetic inscriptions on some newly discovered ancient 3000 year old wooden tablets confirm it. What is right ... and what is wrong? Is it happening now ... and is it stoppable? Read it for yourself. Only you can decide!

Deliver by Moonlight - Quentin Cope

Like most good stories, Believe In The Betrayer, first book in the 'Carlisle Trilogy' series, is one of moral choice, beginning in 1920's France when the illegitimate boy child of Eve is snatched away at birth by a detached and heartless father. But how can she satisfy her torment, tangled within a web of lies and deceit expertly played by a scheming Gestapo Captain Steiger. Eventually, her choice will end up being sacrifice, the ultimate sacrifice; but will her tragic death be enough to satisfy and give peace to the tortured and confused mind of young American OSS agent Pierre, who is left with the cold, hard choice of many truths to ponder. In the eventual well planned escape, Eve bravely surrenders her life to save the rescued 'Pierre' and as the psychologically damaged agent eventually absorbs the facts about his situation ... he knows he is being left without any choice in a still confused mind other than create a new belief ... one that will drive him forward into a new world, with a new identity and a thirst for the continuing conflict!

Carlisle - Quentin Cope

In this sequel to 'Deliver by Moonlight' one man turns his back on war and the sordid mechanics of international espionage facing more than one life defining decision. Will the stunningly beautiful agent Vivette reappear and reveal her true identity, or will a substantial financial legacy throw his whole existence into total disarray? 'Carlisle' is a gripping fast moving story chronicling the life and legacy of Glenn Carlisle, someone with a violent and disturbing past and an emotionally chequered future. Set in the period 1944 to 1976 during the uncertain times of post world war II America and acted out under the deepening shadows of a new cold war with Russia, Carlisle weaves a sometimes distressing path through periods of love and passion along with other particularly disturbing events ending in loss and revenge. Glenn Carlisle is a man used to walking near the edge; harvesting some politically tricky problems combined with a certain amount of diamond encrusted luck along the way. Fortunately, Carlisle knows that some problems can be solved simply by throwing money at them ... and Carlisle has a lot of it! However, his life plan eventually emerges from a particular period of darkness and confusion as he is primed to make a surprising discovery ... and one with the potential to change his life forever. Will such a change be enough to eventually slow down a man like Glenn Carlisle? Conceivably in a final reckoning, someone will need more than god and good luck on their side, especially with a lifelong attachment to the murky world of covert espionage where nothing is ever really finished ... but perhaps sometimes only abandoned!

Sins of a Stranger - Quentin Cope

When Charlotte, the titled Lady Bourchier and Duchess of Millbury is forced to witness, in horrific detail, the murder of her father Glenn Carlisle, she has little choice but to face her demons and find the killer. However, it is a series of family matters that drive her back to France and the recovery of her mother's family estates. It's there she meets a man she feels she is destined to marry. In this exciting finale, the third book in the Carlisle trilogy, the unraveling of circumstances and situations expose an unexpected vulnerability for Charlotte. What part will the mysterious Mr. James 'Monty' Gittins play when lives are finally about to be laid on the line? This story follows the life of Charlotte from the death of her father in 1976 through to a thrilling conclusion in 1990 and ending the complete seventy one year long narrative begun in 1919.

The Carlisle Trilogy - Quentin Cope

When Charlotte, the titled Lady Bourchier and Duchess of Millbury is forced to witness, in horrific detail, the murder of her father Glenn Carlisle, she has little choice but to face her demons and find the killer. However, it is a series of family matters that drive her back to France and the recovery of her mother's family estates. It's there she meets a man she feels she is destined to marry. In this exciting finale, the third book in the Carlisle trilogy, the unraveling of circumstances and situations expose an unexpected vulnerability for Charlotte. What part will the mysterious Mr. James 'Monty' Gittins play when lives are finally about to be laid on the line? This story follows the life of Charlotte from the death of her father in 1976 through to a thrilling conclusion in 1990 and ending the complete seventy one year long narrative begun in 1919.