Jackie Shaw
2 primary works • 3 total works
Book 1
Book 2
Six names – targets for assassination by bomb, bullet or blade.
Three killers – two vicious professionals and an idealistic young terrorist.
Two Security Service officers – confused and at each other’s throats.
One lost girl – abused and on the run.
And Jackie Shaw – outnumbered, disavowed and ready to tear an entire city apart.
When a series of apparently random assassinations hit London, MI5 and GCHQ deduce that the killers are working through a hit-list of retired security forces operatives and that their next target is an ex-police officer from Belfast now living rough in the capital.
Desperate to find the officer before he too is eliminated, the Security Services coerce Jackie Shaw, a man steeped in the violent history of Northern Ireland, into working for them.
While the three killers stalk their next victim, Jackie trawls the city’s underbelly in search of their target as he tries to protect a girl who is desperate to escape a gang of brutal traffickers.
After all their paths converge on a dark Soho street, Jackie and the girl find themselves alone and on the run, fighting not just to uncover who or what the Seven Skins are but for their own lives.
When ex-undercover agent Jackie Shaw visits northern Japan for a holiday, he is in search of relaxation, an escape from the brutality and tragedy of his past.
But when a local man is butchered as he spies on a young woman in the seedy heart of Sapporo's entertainment district, Jackie is dragged into the hunt for a terrifying serial killer and begins a long and bloody battle with vicious yakuza gangs.
From the twisted underbelly of one of Japan's largest cities to the vast, unforgiving wilderness of the northern territories of Hokkaido, Dry River is a uniquely menacing and compulsive thriller which will take you to places you've never been before.
Under attack from Japanese killers and his own demons, will Jackie Shaw get out alive?