An Englishman dies in a car bomb explosion in Holland. A professionalassassination with no chance that the killers will be caught. The Dutchinvestigators cannot fi nd a motive for the killing of Simon Craig and pass thefiles to the British police.Newly promoted Chief Inspector Randall is given the task of investigatingSimon Craigs background, family, and friends. He quickly discovers thatCraig was a conceited and ruthless womanizer living a multid...

Andrew Ball returns in this dramatic story of the search for British children missing for more than forty years. While Ball struggles to make sense of new evidence that they were taken to the Soviet Union, Anton Adamovich is ruthlessly dealing with skeletons in the closet as he vies to become Russias next president. In New York, psychologist Miles Wallace disappears after boasting about the experimental work hed done for the Politburo when he was a young professor in Minsk. Chief Prosecuto...

Andrew Ball returns in a multidimensional thriller set in todays turbulent world. When Englands cricket captain is attacked and injured, Ian Thorne is promoted to lead the team on their tour of India. But life gets complicated for Thorne when his ex-wife disappears and a Sunday newspaper exposes him for conspiring to organise betting scams. Cricket lover Andrew Ball cant save an old friend from dying on the streets of Florence when he helps an ex-cabinet minister infiltrate an Italian secr...

Stephen Powell was enjoying the drama and cruelty of what he was doing and the mental torture he knew he was causing others. He was a bitter, disturbed, and dangerous man who had found a novel way of extorting money from the families of missing teenagers. Semiretired MI6 officer Andrew Ball gets involved when Mandy Gray introduces him to the parents of a missing boy whose body has just been found in a grave near Southampton. Ball discovers identical killings have happened in France and Hol...