A secret refuge. A dead spy. A killer hiding in plain sight.The Sanctuary is supposed to be the safest place in Britain: a discreet rehabilitation centre on the north-east coast where wounded soldiers, damaged intelligence officers and burned-out covert operators go to recover.But when former MI5 officer Thomas Allbright is found dead on the rocks below the cliffs, Charlie Cooper is sent in undercover to find out whether it was really an accident.What he finds is a ...

In the explosive thirteenth installment of the Charlie Cooper series, Mark Dawson delivers another high-stakes thriller packed with tension, betrayal, and razor-sharp twists.

She does Britain’s dirty work, but this time she needs help. Beatrix Rose, meet John Milton…Beatrix Rose has a knack for making the British government’s problems go away. When the assassin is sent to Venezuela to track down a missing scientist, she meets a contact who knows the lay of the land: none other than John Milton…As the state-sanctioned assassin and the special forces soldier team up in South America, they’ll do more than capture a missing scientis...

In the rain-soaked Pacific Northwest, John Milton is drawn into a desperate fight against a pharmaceutical giant when a painkiller addiction drives an ordinary man to rob banks—and exposes a company willing to destroy lives for profit.

An assassin haunted by his past. Two young refugees out of their depth and in need of his special talents.John Milton is no stranger to the world’s seedy underbelly. But when the former British Secret Service agent comes up against a ruthless human trafficking ring, he’ll have to fight harder than ever to conquer the evil in his path.After Milton meets a refugee who lost a sister to people smugglers, he travels through war-torn Libya and the murkiest parts of Italy and Fran...

When a covert operator with links to Charlie Cooper is killed, the trail leads to a secret outfit few believe is real: Hemlock.No witnesses. No records. No proof it ever existed. Just rumours, half-forgotten files, and a growing body count.As Cooper digs deeper, the evidence keeps disappearing—and so do the people who get too close. Hemlock doesn’t operate in the shadows. It owns them, using blackmail, corruption and murder to shape events from the inside.The closer...

A storm is brewing in the heartlands of America and John Milton senses something in the air…John Milton has a nose for trouble. He can smell it a mile away. And when he witnesses a suspicious altercation between a young man and two thugs in a car auction parking lot, he can’t resist getting involved.Milton came to Kansas City hoping to find a way out of danger. His recent vendetta against a cartel hitman who killed his friend has made him enemies in high places. Now he need...

When MI6 assassin Charlie Cooper is ordered to take a leave of absence, he uses the time to settle a personal score.A former ally sold him out to the Chinese in Singapore. In London, he tracks her routine, finds her weakness, and sets the trap. But the explosion that should have killed her doesn’t.Before Cooper can finish what he started, Control recalls him to duty. His target: Hisham Al Iraqi, a legendary bombmaker hiding among the ancient ruins of Petra. Cooper embeds hi...

Sometimes your past catches up with you. But John Milton has decided to catch up with his past.Eighteen years ago, on a mission in Iraq, Captain John Milton made a reckless decision with serious consequences. But it was Major Connor Gordon who really paid the price.Now Milton is on a different mission: to atone for his past sins by helping those in need. A human rights activist has vanished without a trace and his dying mother is desperate to know the truth. When the myster...

Two men out for revenge. But only one can win.When an inmate is found unresponsive in his high security cell at Belmarsh prison, he’s rushed to hospital for treatment. The prisoner is human trafficker and international fixer Tristan Huxley, a man a lot of people have good reason to want dead. But Huxley mysteriously never makes it to the hospital. He may have plenty of enemies but it seems he has some very powerful friends too.Huxley’s disappearance is bad news for anyone w...

Private investigator Atticus Priest is asked to investigate after a man falls to his death from the tower of Salisbury Cathedral. But when a video is sent to the local newspaper showing the deceased man engaging in a compromising act with a minor, Atticus realizes that there's much more to this case than he initially thought.Is it blackmail? Suicide? Or murder?Two more bodies are found and two more videos are sent to the press. Atticus and his former colleague, detective ch...

The cold of Siberia meets the chill of betrayal.In a world where loyalty is fleeting and alliances are temporary, John Milton is on a mission that will bring him face-to-face with enemies old and new. When his friend, Alex Hicks, finds himself pursued by mysterious adversaries, the two men are thrust back into the web of international espionage.Navigating a perilous path that stretches from the war-torn streets of Ukraine to the icy wastelands of Siberia, Milton will stop a...