Mark Dawson
1) Sandstorm
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Series
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English
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A gripping, fast-paced novella from the multi-million selling author of the John Milton series.
In the city of Cairo, a sandstorm is coming.
Group Fifteen operative and ex-MI6 officer Charlie Cooper is working undercover as a political negotiator. Attending a conference surrounded by diplomats, businessmen, and lobbyists, nobody would suspect what he really does for a living. Also in their midst is Aisha, a Saudi activist whose protests against...
2) Ronin
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English
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John Milton has a violent past. He doesn't go looking for trouble, but trouble is always looking for him.
For years Milton has travelled the world as John Smith, making friends and enemies in equal measure. Now his ex-employer, the covert agency Group Fifteen, is on his tail. It's time to find a new identity.
In his quest to stay off-grid, Milton heads to a friend who owes him a favor in Bali. But a chance encounter with the beautiful and enigmatic...
3) Killa City
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English
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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...
4) The Red Room
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English
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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...
5) Bulletproof
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Series
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English
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John Milton thought he could run forever. He was wrong.
For years, former secret service agent and trained killer John Milton thought he could outrun his past, his demons and his enemies. His enemies had other ideas.
Captured and imprisoned by the organization he once worked for, Milton must do one last job in exchange for his freedom. Bullheaded billionaire fixer Tristan Huxley is brokering a weapons deal between Russia and India. He needs protection...
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English
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Four murders. Two detectives. One mystifying crime.
On Christmas Eve, DCI Mackenzie Jones is called to a shooting at a remote farmhouse. Ralph Mallender believes his father lies dead inside. When three more bodies are discovered, it's clear a festive family gathering has turned into a gruesome tragedy.
At first it seems like an open and shut case: a murder suicide committed by Ralph's volatile brother Cameron. Then new evidence makes Mack suspect...
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English
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A breathtaking, twisty adventure, A Place to Bury Strangers is the second Atticus Priest mystery.
A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up there. She contacts disgraced ex-detective Atticus Priest and the two of them trace the bone to a graveyard in the nearby village of Imber. But the village was abandoned after it was purchased by the Ministry...
8) The Avenger
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English
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She didn't live in a normal world. She was hunted. The code written in her genetics was worth an incalculable amount of money, and there were men and women who would do anything to lay their hands on her.
Living under new identities in rural France, trained killer Isabella Rose and her former handler Michael Pope are trying to lay low. Tired of hiding, all Isabella wants is the chance to live an ordinary life.
But Isabella is an extraordinary young...
9) The Sandman
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English
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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...
10) Wormwood
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English
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What if it wasn't an accident?
1969. Eloise Shepherd, one of MI6's brightest rising stars, is working undercover in Soviet Russia as Magdalina Novikova. Her mission is to persuade nuclear physicist Stanislav Kalashnik to defect and bring his knowledge of Russian weapons back to the UK. On the verge of success, the operation fails suddenly and spectacularly.
Seventeen years later, Kalashnik is Chief Engineer at the power plant near Pripyat known...
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English
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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...
12) The Chameleon
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Deception Runs Deep. Betrayal Runs Deeper. Delve into the clandestine world of Group 15, the covert organization also featured in the acclaimed John Milton series. Charlie Cooper, an elite Group Fifteen agent, faces a complex mission: eliminate Igor Sidorov, a security-obsessed Russian oligarch implicated in international subterfuge. The only avenue to reach the paranoid Sidorov? Through Crispin Fairweather, the owner of a small yet influential reputation...
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Series
John Milton novels volume 5
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"John Milton, a former British assassin, treks through the Michigan wilderness into the town of Truth. He is not looking for trouble, but trouble's looking for him. He finds himself up against a small-town cop who has no idea with whom he is dealing, and no idea how dangerous he is. But Milton is double crossed and badly injured. Unarmed and alone, he flees into the remote Porcupine Mountains with a a posse on his tail. His enemies thought they could...
Author
Series
John Milton novels volume 6
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"John Milton is trying to make amends for a career spent killing for the British Secret Service. He has a burning need to right wrongs--and rewrite his own bloody past. He finds himself in Louisiana--the Big Sleazy, the bayou, and the post-Katrina wreckage of the Gulf Coast--with a debt of honor to repay. Isadora Bartholomew, who is his partner's wife, needs help. Joel Babineaux, a ruthless property magnate, is out to sink the charity she established...
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Series
John Milton novels volume 7
Publisher
Unputdownable Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bury your enemies, and bury them deep. John Milton thought he was done with Avi Bachman. The most dangerous man he's ever known has been incarcerated in Angola, the brutal Louisiana prison. Inmates rarely leave Angola. Once you go in, the only way out is in a box. But Bachman is no ordinary prisoner. He was an assassin for the Mossad, and he has favours to call in. Milton is in the Australian outback with an old friend and his flirtatious kid sister,...
Author
Series
John Milton novels volume 1
Publisher
Unputdownable Limited
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
" A career of state-sanctioned murder has taken its toll. Milton is troubled by nightmares, a long line of ghosts who torment his dreams. He resolves to make his next job his last and, then, perhaps, he can start to make amends for everything that he has done. Sharon Warriner is a single mother in the East End of London, suicidal with fear that she's lost her young son to a life in the gangs. After Milton saves her life, he promises to help. But the...
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Series
John Milton novels volume 2
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Milton, a former British assassin, has been trying to erase the bad memories of his recent jobs. He eventually appears in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where he is drawn into a vicious battle with narco-gangs that control the borderlands. He saves the life of an idealistic journalist and tries to keep her safe until he can smuggle her into Texas where she will be safe. It is a race to beat the assassin Santa Muerta (Saint Death) who is trailing them....
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Series
John Milton novels volume 8
Publisher
Unputdownable Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Milton is keeping a low profile in London when he meets Eddie Fabian. Fabian confesses that he is considering suicide, and that the reason for his depression was the abuse that he suffered as a child. Milton offers to help, but, before he can, Eddie is found dead in circumstances that Milton considers suspicious. And then events take a turn that no-one could have anticipated... Milton’s attempted good deed becomes a quest to unveil corruption...
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Series
John Milton novels volume 3
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn't want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing, Milton is worried. Especially when two dead bodies are discovered and the police start treating him as their prime suspect. Milton is a fugitive from the British...
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Series
John Milton novels volume 4
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"John Milton is a ghost. He was Number One. The most dangerous assassin in Group Fifteen, the black-ops organisation that solves problems when diplomacy has failed. Now Milton is Her Majesty's most wanted fugitive--an anonymous loner with a deadly set of skills. So when he is arrested following a brawl in a Texas bar, the last person he expected to bail him out was a glamorous operative from the Russian Secret Service. Milton is blackmailed into finding...