Threat to Life

Michael Kavanagh has twenty-three working days left before retirement. Claire wants a departure date; the job has other plans. A French investigation brings an urgent warning to London: an encrypted criminal network is auctioning murder assignments, and a protected witness may be next.

Working with Detective Sergeant Sarah Stone and French investigator Luc, Michael must decipher a game in which the winning bid selects an attacker and a time, while the losing numbers reveal routes used to move people under protection. The transport system meant to keep witnesses safe may be giving killers the access they need. With one witness already wounded and another journey exposed, Michael and Sarah race to identify who is manipulating the bookings—and stop the next attack.

As the investigation closes in on a secure transport subcontractor, a former dispatcher holds evidence that could expose the network, but his account has gaps of its own. Michael must question what he thinks he knows, while facing the personal choice he has kept postponing: whether to leave the job, or let the case decide for him.

A taut London crime thriller driven by an ingenious bidding scheme, a partnership under pressure, and the mounting cost of keeping people safe.