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Wicked Game

English

By (author): Matt Johnson

Royalty Protection Team officer Robert Finlay is looking forward to a quieter life, when two police officers are killed and their links to his own past becomes clear putting everyones lives in danger. A startlingly authentic debut first in a page-turning, searing new series.

**NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**
**Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger**
**LoveReading Debut of the Month**


Terse, tense and vivid writing. Matt Johnson is a brilliant new name in the world of thrillers. And hes going to be a big name Peter James

From the first page to the last, an authentic, magnetic and completely absorbing read Sir Ranulph Fiennes

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2001. Age is catching up with Robert Finlay, a police officer on the Royalty Protection team based in London. He's looking forward to returning to uniform policing and a less stressful life with his new family. But fate has other plans. Finlay's deeply traumatic, carefully concealed past is about to return to haunt him.

A policeman is killed by a bomb blast, and a second is gunned down in his own driveway. Both of the murdered men were former Army colleagues from Finlay's own SAS regiment, and in a series of explosive events, it becomes clear that he is not the ordinary man that his colleagues, friends and new family think he is.

And so begins a game of cat and mouse a wicked game, in which Finlay is the target, forced to test his long-buried skills in a fight against a determined and unidentified enemy.

Wicked Game is a taut, action-packed, emotive thriller about a man who might be your neighbour, a man who is forced to confront his past in order to face a threat that may wipe out his future, a man who is willing to do anything to protect the people he loves.

But is it too late?

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Utterly compelling and dripping with authenticity. This summers must-read thriller J S Law

Out of terrible personal circumstances, Matt Johnson has written a barnstormer of a thriller. Nothing is clear-cut in a gripping labyrinthine plot, which despite thrills and spills aplenty never falls short of believable David Young

Wicked Game has the authenticity I look for in a thriller. While the plot kept me turning pages, the characters made me care. Matt writes like a man who has lived it Kevin Maurer

Johnson litters his tale with the plotting equivalent of incendiaries: cops we dont quite trust, a career that came abruptly to an end, a secret needing to be kept Gripping stuff New Welsh Review See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Mar 2016
  • Publisher: Orenda Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781910633410

About Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson served as a soldier and Metropolitan Police officer for twenty-five years. Blown off his feet at the London Baltic Exchange bombing in 1993 and one of the first police officers on the scene of the 1982 Regents Park bombing Matt was also at the Libyan Peoples Bureau shooting in 1984 where he escorted his mortally wounded friend and colleague Yvonne Fletcher to hospital. Hidden wounds took their toll. In 1999 Matt was discharged from the police with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. While undergoing treatment he was encouraged by his counsellor to write about his career and his experience of murders shootings and terrorism. One evening Matt sat at his computer and started to weave these notes into a work of fiction that he described as having a tremendously cathartic effect on his own condition. His bestselling thriller Wicked Game which was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger was the result.Deadly Game and now End Game the final book in the Robert Finaly series once again draws on Matts experiences and drips with the same raw authenticity of its predecessor. Follow Matt on Twitter @Matt_Johnson_UK and his website: www.mattjohnsonauthor.com

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