Short-listed for the 2004 Dundee Book prize.
Grim times and crimes in 1985. In strike-torn Yorkshire, a killer is on the loose and all the myths are still in town. From a mining family, Detective... More > Sergeant Terry Ackrington has to race against time to stop the Wolverly Pimpernel murdering more young girls. In doing so, he has to confront and challenge everything he believes in...including family loyalties.< Less
When a bomb rips through Birmingham New Street station all fingers point to al-Qaeda. Two of the bombers are British Asians. But why is the third, who blows himself up on a bus, a white college... More > drop out of Irish parentage? And why was the bomb factory rented by a spoilt rich kid from Dublin with Irish Republican sympathies?
As the investigation unfolds, evidence of a link between al-Qaeda and dissident Irish Republicans is revealed. But who is the marriage broker between these two groups? What is their connection to the theft of hi-tech weapons from an American facility in Oxfordshire?
As the clock ticks down to the next atrocity, a network of individuals, whose paths have already crossed, stumble upon pieces of the jigsaw, while being hunted by powerful but shadowy figures whose sinister ambition is to create a Police State.
The protagonists discover the truth as the complete picture is revealed in a bloody and apocalyptic finale.< Less
Volume two of the dark and disturbing world of "The Dark Side of the Sun". This anthology contains only science fiction, horror, grim fantasy and topical science and political articles. ... More > If you can't stand capering elves and cute little pixies, join the club! Neither can we, and this anthology reflects that attitude.< Less
This book contains two novellas, both featuring the edge-of-reality Professor Nils Lundquist - who has more experience than he would like with things like tachyons, wormhole theory and travel to... More > alternate universes. Dark and edgy science fiction that sometimes croses over into the horror genre, shot through with flashes of black humour and political satire. Not for the faint hearted!< Less
This dark and violent action thriller from Roger Cottrell is set in Birmingham and the Black Country. It features a charismatic protagonist - a black cop - Detective Superintendent Alan Kemp. He's... More > a cop on the edge - on the edge of losing his family, his job, and his life. Alone, he must confront his nemesis - the Yardie boss King Jason - in a battle to settle a lifetime of hate and to save everything that Kemp holds dear.< Less
This, the third volume of Dark Side of the Sun, is bigger and better than ever. It is packed full of dark, bleak science-fiction, with some eerie tales of nightmarish possible futures and alternate... More > realities. Buy it; read it if you dare!< Less
Tobias Slaughter - ex Pinkerton, Communist writer of screenplays and now Private Investigator.
Sounds like an interesting, and dangerous, man to know.
In this masterful blend of historical fact and... More > alternate reality, Roger Cottrell follows the life of Slaughter through three decades and two continents, mixing murders of union officials with the McCarthy witchhunts and the plot to destabilize the British Labour Goverment of the 1960s.
In another world, this might have happened. In this world, much of it did.< Less
Dark Side of the Sun is a new quarterly anthology of dystopian science fiction and horror produced by Blind Samurai Films. The hellish visions it contains are not for the faint hearted. If you like... More > the works of William Gibson, Harlan Ellison, Pohl, Simak and Shaun Hutson, this is the magazine for you.< Less
Ahmed is a former sniper in the Bosnian army, haunted by the demons of his past.
He experiences the isolation and alienation of life in a decaying council estate while awaiting the result of his... More > application for asylum. He meets Nazir, an Asian girl fleeing from an arranged marriage, and the two form a supportive relationship against the gangs that roam the estate, and against Nazir's vengeful family, who are intent on an honour killing.
Ahmed has to enter into a terrible bargain with an enigmatic Irishman, McMurtagh in order to ensure the safety of Nazir. What he doesn't realise is that his side of the bargain will once again involve him with Serbian criminals to whom Ahmed owes debts of blood and honour.
Events draw to an apocalyptic and bloody finale, where all debts of blood and honour are repaid in full, amid a landscape of flames and gunfire.< Less
A nightmarish parallel universe where Hitler never came to power, and Britain is now the 51st state of the USA; where war is a constant and information is a commodity; and where truth is increasingly... More > hard to come by.< Less
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