Di Castle Case Files

Before Jack Castle was a Private Eye, he was a Detective Inspector.It's London, 1981. Britain is in the grip of a recession and the IRA is becoming increasingly active. Detective Inspector Jack Castle of London's Metropolitan Police Robbery Squad is working with his new Sergeant, George Davis as they try and catch a cop killer who has just landed in London on a flight from Miami.To complicate matters, DI Jack Castle has been partnered with Miami Police Lieutenant John Ellis, a man with revenge on his mind. Castle, pursuing a line of his own, finds the American difficult to work with and soon the two men are engulfed in a dangerous clash of personalities. It soon becomes apparent that Lieutenant John Ellis is a man that likes to shoot first and asks questions later. Castle soon finds himself embroiled in an investigation that grows into something much more violent and sinister than he had ever envisaged.

DI Jack Castle is a stubborn man, amoral, hating interference. He's a fighter against rank, regulations- and crime. And he hates to lose.When an English man is brutally murdered in Manhattan. Castle is given the task of personally delivering the papers to the FBI - he goes to New York...and walks straight into the world of the Syndicate and international double-dealing.Defying orders to return to London, Castle's stubborn streak puts him in line for liquidation by people to whom human lives are valued less than the price of a New York City hot dog.

1983 In scenes similar to the great depression, unemployment stands at a record high in Britain. The Brinks Mat robbers steal 26 million in gold from a warehouse at Heathrow Airport and DI Jack Castle of the Flying Squad has unwittingly assisted the escape of an armed assassin.On the 9th of February, a prominent Arab businessman suddenly cashed in all his oilwells on the third floor of the Wellesley Clinic, St John's Wood, London when a full clip of ammunition from an MP40 sub-machine gun was emptied into him.He is the fourth victim in as many weeks.DI Jack Castle is put on the case and sent to investigate a group of mysterious murders among the rich and powerful of Knightsbridge and the affluent inhabitants of the French Riviera.At first sight it appears that these leading Arab oil sheikhs and business entrepreneurs have been murdered to warn others of their kind to pay over multi-million-dollar blackmail sums to stay alive. But all is not as it appears...