The Savages (The Staunton and Wyndsor Series, #4)
The Savages (A Murder Thriller)'This is a taut, handsome job, beautifully written, full of real characters and acute observations.'The New York TimesWhen Colonel Bannister-Coates, an experienced Intelligence officer, fails to return to his Oxfordshire village home and his immaculate clothes are discovered dressing a scarecrow in a roadside field, there is a flurry of anxious activity in Whitehall.Detective Superintendent Staunton and his urbane Detective Inspector, Leo Wyndsor, are under pressure to discover if this is defection or assassination, or if there is some other, less obvious, answer.Despite local obstruction and sparse, enigmatic c…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5365-0295-4
- EAN: 9781536502954
- Produktnummer: 31644005
- Verlag: Peter Hill
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 819 KB
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Peter Hill's background is steeped in crime. He was a detective in the Metropolitan Police, London, serving in some of the toughest parts of that city. He also worked at New Scotland Yard in the Company Fraud Department and later the internationally recognised C1 department known as 'The Murder Squad'. In the course of his investigations he travelled widely in Britain, Europe and South America.He left the force at the age of thirty-two, with the rank of Detective Inspector, to become a professional writer.Peter worked extensively in television for iconic British drama series such as 'Callan', 'The Sweeney', 'Z Cars', 'Public Eye', 'The Bill', 'Special Branch',and 'New Scotland Yard',He has written six novels, which were all published worldwide by major publishing houses.These books are all British police detective thrillers set in various locations in Britain and The Hunters, The Liars, The Enthusiast and The Savages in the 'Staunton and Wyndsor' series and The Fanatics and The Washermen in the 'Commander Allan Dice' books are now available as eBooks.These books are all stand-alone stories, but with the same major protagonists.Under the pen name of John Eyers he was commissioned to write Survivors: Genesis of a Hero, based on the famous 'Survivors' TV series,and Special Branch: In at the Kill, a spin-off from the 'Special Branch' TV series.These are also now available as eBooks.Although based on the characters in the two TV series both of these books are stand-alone stories. Peter has recently returned to novel writing but in a different genre and 'Evolution's Path' is series of near-and far-future stories, of which Killing Tomorrow now available as an eBook, is the first. The second in the series, The Ladies' Game, and the third, Procreation, have recently been published as eBooks.They are also available as paperbacks.Find out more about Peter and his books on his website:
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