Turf Wars

When a Russian crime lord lands on the Gold Coast, paradise becomes a battleground. Viktor Kovchenko didn't plan on Australia. But when Scotland Yard's biggest drug bust in history collapses his London empire overnight, the ruthless Russian oligarch vanishes, killing the one woman who could expose him, and reinvents himself on the other side of the world. Beneath the glittering façade of Queensland's Gold Coast, he intends to rebuild everything he lost. He's chosen the wrong turf. Amanda is beautiful, restless, and quietly suffocating inside a marriage that looks perfect from the outside. Her celebrity husband ticks every box, except the ones that matter. One humid Schoolies night in Surfers Paradise, a chance encounter with a dangerous, dark-eyed stranger on a thundering Harley-Davidson ignites something she hasn't felt in years. What begins as a reckless moment of desire rapidly pulls her into a world she was never meant to enter. Constable Ryan Briggs has seen everything the Gold Coast's neon-lit underbelly has to offer. Vice, violence, broken people stumbling through bad decisions. He's cynical, tired, and doing his best to care about a job that seems designed to grind him down. But the ripples spreading from a new and disturbingly organised criminal presence are about to make his career, or end it. Three lives. One dangerous collision course. Turf Wars is a gritty, electrifying crime thriller set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Australia's most iconic playground, where organised crime, motorcycle culture, betrayal, and desire collide in a story that never lets you off the throttle. Debut novelist Peter Hamilton draws on forty years of riding and a lifetime of watching people to craft a world that is vivid, raw, and utterly compelling.