by Jack Probyn
‘I’m pleased for you.’
Jake shifted the dynamic of the conversation away from him to focus it more on Freddy. ‘What about your little boy? Have you spoken to him?’
‘Don’t be fucking ridiculous. He’s not allowed anywhere near here. I’ve written letter after letter, sent it to his mum’s last known address, but have I heard anything? Fuck no.’ Freddy made a zero gesture with his fingers. ‘His mum wants nothing to do with me, so by default that means Sammy doesn’t want anything to do with me either.’
Jake didn’t know what to say. Now that he was a father, he could think of nothing worse than having Maisie ripped from him. Not seeing her every day, holding her, stroking her hair, kissing her goodnight at bedtime or when he got in late and she was already asleep. She was his everything – his entire world. And he would permit nothing to hurt her. Especially after he and Elizabeth had been told they wouldn’t be able to become parents by a multitude of professionals in the first place.
‘I’m sorry to hear that,’ Jake said eventually, finding the courage to say the words. ‘It must be horrible.’
‘It is.’ Freddy paused a beat. ‘You know who I blame? You. You’re the reason I’m in here. At least before I was able to watch my son grow up from the outskirts of his life. Now I have nothing, and no way of contacting him. He’ll never know I existed, and there’s fuck all I can do about it.’
There was an emotion in Freddy’s voice that Jake hadn’t heard before. When they’d first met, Freddy had told him about his son, but he hadn’t expressed as much passion and adoration as he did just now. Jake was sure he saw the corners of the man’s eyes glisten in the light.
‘I don’t know anything about what they’ve done,’ Freddy said. ‘This is all on them. Their heist. Their job.’
‘I’m not here to ask you whether you know anything about this one.’
‘What do you need from me then?’ There was no expression on his face and no energy left in Freddy’s tone, as if their previous topic of conversation had vacuumed it out of him.
‘I need to know everything about the brothers. Their past. Their present. Their future. This job’s different, Fred. This one’s… more evil.’
Freddy stroked his stubble and smiled. It was clear who had all the power; Jake would have to change that.
‘You don’t ask for a lot, do you? And what do I get out of this little arrangement?’
Jake swallowed before replying. This was it. His ace card.
‘I can get you to see your son. I can make that happen. I’ll just need some time.’
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The Conspiracy (June 2020)
Organised crime group, The Crimsons, commit their final jewellery heist before they try to escape the country. One man stands in their way. But with a bent copper working against him, can Jake Tanner stop them in time? Or will it be too late?
The Community (July 2020)
When bodies start turning up with similar limbs dismembered under similar circumstances, Jake and the rest of the Major Crime team suspect they’ve got a serial killer on their hands. But when enemies from Jake’s past come back to haunt him, he’s distracted. How many more bodies will appear before Jake realises his priorities?
The Confession (September 2020)
The body of an old enemy is found buried beneath a tonne of concrete in the middle of the Olympic Stadium construction site in London. Who did it and how did they get there? Jake Tanner makes it his mission to find out. But what he uncovers will change his life — and career — for ever. In The Confession, the stakes have never been higher.
The Cadre (October 2020)
Henry Matheson runs east London. Especially when it comes to drugs. Untouchable, formidable, he thinks he can get away with everything — even burning a man alive on a lamppost. But, then again, he’s never met Jake Tanner. Until now.
The Company (December 2020)
When Jake is the victim of a fraudulent attack that leaves him with nothing, he makes it his mission to find the people responsible. What he discovers is something more harrowing than he could have ever imagined: a company that runs on the local currency of human bodies and flesh.
The Cabal (Feb 2021)
Famous criminal lawyer, Rupert Haversham, and his family, are killed in their stately London home. But something isn’t right. Jake thought he’d put The Cabal saga behind him… Are his worst fears about to come true?
ABOUT JACK PROBYN
Jack Probyn hasn’t experienced the world. He’s never even owned a pet. But he’d like to; there’s still time. His twenty-two years on the planet have been spent in the United Kingdom, with a few excursions overseas — a particular favourite of his was Amsterdam. Or Norway. Both of which were lovely.
But what Jack lacks in life-experience, he more than makes up for in creative ingenuity. His Jake Tanner series is the birth child of a sinister and twisted mind, and a propensity to assume the worst will happen in even the most mediocre situation.
Finding himself pigeon-holed as a millennial, Jack decided to stick with the stereotype and do things his own way. After all, he felt entitled and he wanted to destroy industries.
Enter: writing.
The love of writing was rekindled in Jack’s life when he (briefly) entered the corporate world, and the passion snowballed from there. No more will the millennial writer find himself working 9-5, indulging in the complexities of business life, or wearing a M&S suit.
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