Killing Machine

Former soldier and ex-boxer Joe has always invited violence. But now Hackney's most vicious gangs all want to kill him. Why? As he tries to unravel the knot of events that have made him a target, Joe is drawn back into his past, back to the memory of the only woman he ever loved, Brenda, whose unsolved murder still haunts him. Then a twelve year old runaway enters his life. Kid is traumatised, mute, and sees Joe as her saviour. Life has made Joe a machine. Can Kid - as Brenda once did - make him human again? To Die For is a taut thriller about betrayal, vengeance and redemption that will grab you by the throat from the very first line.

She died for him. Now he will kill for her... Ex-boxer and ex-paratrooper Joe once had meaning in his life. Then he lost everything, and now he is a hit-man for London's most vicious criminals. Brenda was the only woman who ever loved him. The only woman who believed he could escape the underworld. She died protecting others; now Joe wants revenge on her killers. With nothing left to lose, Joe prepares for the fight of his life...A poignant thriller about love, revenge and redemption from a superb new voice in British crime.

Before he became an assassin in London's underworld, Joe was a soldier in the British army. Outside his home in East London, a turf war is raging; Joe has no choice but to join the fight. It's the only way he can find out what happened to the woman he loved - the only way he can bring her killers to justice. Revenge drives him forward. Either they die, or he does. There's only one way to find out...