After school, Simon wanted to further his education so went to sixth form college. It was now, when he was around 17 years old, that he wrote his first full-length novel. Today, he describes it as… The Last 10 Seconds” is the fifth novel in the “Tina Boyd” series and was released in the year 2010. When John Cone, an ex-cop, is discovered lying wounded in a roomed filled with corpses, he has a horrifying new tale to tell. While Boyd, Galland, and DI Asif Malik get closer to the guy responsible for the Heathrow shooting, they find one murderous conspiracy that is going to take them to the very core of one of the most notorious criminal gangs in London. What they cannot possibly know is that they have also gone down a collision path that is going to lead them directly into the enemy’s rifle sights. Three days prior he was hired by some mysterious client to grab a suspected serial killer known as The Penthouse Predator, real name Andrew Kent, from custody as he is getting transferred between prisons. He is snatched, however things then go wrong instantly. People begin dying, Kent vanishes, and Cone starts realizing that the case against him isn’t what he was first led to believe.

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All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate. Rob just cannot let things lie, not with her life in danger. Yet when he begins asking questions, he finds he is the target of some killers. However what could they be so desperate to hide? And what could it have to do with an ordinary girl like Jenny? Either Rob finds out, or is dead. It really is that simple. They have taken your fourteen year old daughter, and her kidnappers are demanding half a million pounds in cash. They give you only forty-eight hours to raise the money, and warn that she dies if you call the police. However when Rob reports this kidnapping to the police, nobody believes him. Her dad is claiming that she is on vacation abroad, and her apartment looks to be untouched, and the doorman did not hear or see anything.Meron, who is horrified and confused, scoops his kids and hurries out of the house. Right in time, too. Within just minutes, a car pulls up outside and three guys get out. It is obvious they are coming for him. He is being hunted and he’s no clue why. And with his wife missing, the cops after him for murder, one unidentified corpse in her office, is life is going to get a whole hell of a lot worse. Simon was born into a typical middle class family in Slough, which is a town in the South of England, about 20 miles from London. While born in Slough, Simon was raised in Henley-on-Thames, which is only about 16 miles west. He attended Gillotts School, which is a comprehensive school in Henley-on-Thames and which was originally an all-girls school but became co-ed in 1960. Enter DI John Gallan and DS Tina Boyd, his partner, who are both part of the Serious Crime Squad that investigate murder of Slim Robbie O’Brien, an ex-gangster turn informer. Slim Robbie had helped Boyd and Gallan set up this operation and is also dead, shot with his mom in his council flat in Islington as the events at Heathrow were happening. At the same time, Stegs Jenner works to his own agenda, developing a plan that he has been thinking about for an incredibly long time. Revenge is a dish best taken extremely cold, he decides. However is he the guy the cops are after?

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Deadline” is the third novel in the “Tina Boyd” series and was released in the year 2008. You come home late from work, in the evening, and your house is in darkness. You step in, and the phone starts to ring. You answer it, and it turns your entire world upside down.Relentless” is the second novel in the “Tina Boyd” series and was released in the year 2006. There is just a single truth left in your world. They want you and want you dead.