Aidan Waits is een uit de gratie gevallen agent die wordt gedwongen deel te nemen aan een undercoveroperatie. Het is zijn taak om The Franchise te schaduwen, een gang geleid door Zain Carver, die drugs verspreidt vanuit het bruisende uitgaanscentrum van Manchester. Maar als James Rossiter, een vooraanstaand parlementslid, de politie benadert omdat zijn dochter zich heeft aangesloten bij The Franchise, verandert alles...
'He said he didn't remember killing them...' As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has just one job... To extract the location of Martin Wick's final victim before the notorious mass murderer passes away. Wick has spent over a decade in prison, in near-total silence, having confessed to an unspeakable crime that shocked the nation and earned him the nickname of The Sleepwalker. But when a daring premeditated attack leaves one police officer dead and another one fighting for his life, Wick's whispered last words will send Waits on a journey into the heart of darkness... Manipulated by a reticent psychopath from his past, and under investigation from his new partner, Detective Constable Naomi Black, Waits realises too late that a remorseless contract killer is at work. Can Aidan Waits solve his last case before fleeing justice? Or will his name be next on the hit list?
Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man. A body has been found on the fourth floor of Manchester's vast and empty Palace Hotel. The man is dead. And he is smiling. The tags have been removed from his clothes. His teeth have been replaced. Even his fingertips are not his own. Only a patch sewn into his trousers offers any information about him. Detective Aidan Waits and his unwilling partner, DI Sutcliffe, must piece together the scant clues to identify the stranger. But as they do, Aidan realises that a ghost from his past haunts the investigation. He soon recognises that to discover who the smiling man really is, he must first confront the scattered debris of his own life...
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Lynch, a weary con-artist, finds himself in a precarious situation when he is mistaken for Bobbie's missing brother, Heydon. As he becomes entangled in the family's search for the truth behind Heydon's disappearance, he grapples with his conscience and the dangerous implications of assuming another's identity. The deeper he delves into the family's past, the more he realizes that dark forces are at play, and he must confront threats that could cost him his life. This gripping tale intertwines deception with the quest for redemption.
Tři roky na cestě kolem světa a do nitra vlastní duše Ztroskotal na opuštěném ostrově v Karibiku, pracoval v čínském baru, stal se bezdomovcem v San Francisku, vyzval neprostupnou džungli Darién a projel pod polární září Aljašky. Přitom na začátku bylo zlomené srdce, vážná nemoc a obyčejné kolo z bazaru. Mladý cestovatel se vydal hledat ztracenou lásku a léčit své rány tam, kde ožívají romány Jacka Kerouaca. Tříletá cesta mu ale přinesla víc, než čekal. Vydal se nejen kolem světa, ale především do nitra duše.