Joey Netherhill Thriller

Joey Netherhill is an ex-army, ex-policeman who has changed his name to avoid being found by his ex-wife. Through a series of career moves in the South of England, which is as far from his Scottish wife than he can get, he progresses from night-club bouncer to debt-collector for the mob. By an accident of fate his services are requested by the local DS Davy Reid who is afraid that his girlfriend is having and affair. Joey discovers that she has a brother who is wanted for armed-robbery and has hidden himself by joining a commune in the hills behind the village of Poolemouth, and that this is the cause of her secrecy. DS Reid is delighted when he finds this out and subsequently directs more work to Joey from both himself and his colleagues. Now with his own little PI firm and glamorous assistant, the ex-police researcher Vanda, Davy Reid asks him to help find a missing scientist John Connelly, explaining that he has insufficient police resources to do the job himself. A clue comes when someone phones requesting if there is a reward. Joey follows this call up and finds that it comes from the same commune in the hills. He decides to waste no time and motors there that night. He approaches the densely hidden tract by forest fire-breaks and finds himself in the middle of the ritualistic crucifixion of Connelly himself. He rescues this young man and is pursued by heavily armed mob. They escape thanks to a sudden deluge. Joey takes Connelly to the nearby little hospital where he is joined by one overnight duty policemen nicknamed Twinky. Together they stand guard and manage to survive a vicious fire-fight. Joey is puzzled as to why the commune seem to want Connelly so desperately, and this curiosity leads him into a direct confrontations with its satanic leader, Charlie, and his army of followers, to the discovery of heinous sexual blackmail, and to liaisons several women who are a whistle-blower, a newspaper-editor, a motel-owner, a rich spoiled brat, and the heiress to a fortune.

Joey Netherhill is an accidental P.I. Life, it seems, has dealt him a series of Aces and Jokers, the latter being a vindictive C.O. in the Marines and a shrew of a Glasgow-born wife. Escaping from his former life - and wife, he finds himself entangled by the low-life in a town in the south of England. Then an ace is dealt in the form of a police detective who believes his pretty girlfriend is having an affair and requires the assistance of an 'off the books' investigator. Joey finds the solution to this puzzle leads him into a world of danger far beyond his capabilities or comprehension. He is confronted by forces of evil that will swat him as easily as a fly. But Joey Netherhill has other ideas about that...

A priceless book which purports to contain parchments of the Bible's last testament has been stolen from the vaults of a young wealthy heiress, Kimberly Prester. The thief, Tilly McKinnon, an extremely dangerous woman, is currently serving a life sentence for murder in Holloway Prison. She believes that she has been cursed by the book and is desperate for it to be recovered and returned. Joey meets with Kimberly in her luxurious conservatory and is commissioned by her to interview McKinnon with a view to recovering the work. Joey is strongly attracted to the flirtatious Kimberly but realized that he is 'punching above his weight'. Joey's investigations lead him into a world of danger and seduction where he finds that at least three other ancient organizations that are after the book are anxious to get him out of their way. McKinnon escapes from prison and their fates become intertwined as do their emotions. Clues lead him to a sunken medieval abbey, a thousand strong suicide of a sect near Stonehenge, and a final conflict with the Knights Templar in their Paris tower. Throughout the adventure Joey calls on the assistance of Olivia DeMontford, a sexy minx who is obsessed by him. His relationship with this girl is, by necessity, steamy