by Joel Hames
He’s working someone else’s case and he’s in way over his head. But sometimes you need the wrong man in the right place.
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THE ART OF STAYING DEAD
A prisoner who doesn’t exist.
A lawyer who doesn’t care.
A secret buried for thirty years.
Meet Sam Williams. Lawyer, loser, man on the way down. Sam's about to walk into a prison riot. Meet a woman who isn't what she seems. And wind up on the wrong side of some people who'll stop at nothing to keep him quiet.
Sam thought things were going badly yesterday. Now he'll be lucky to see tomorrow.
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"A brilliant read for thriller action readers"
"The suspense is perfectly timed and believable, the atmosphere and characterisation spot on"
"The well-thought-out plot moves along at a relentless pace"
"A pacy thriller with a rich seam of laconic humour"
"Engaging, fast-paced and genuinely thrilling"
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VICTIMS – A SAM WILLIAMS NOVELLA
The trick is to save one without becoming one
Young lawyer Sam Williams is riding high. He's got a job he loves, a girl he wants, and the brain to win out every time.
But Sam's about to find out that he's got enemies, too. And figuring out which one wants to hurt him most isn't as easy as it seems.
Victims introduces Sam Williams, hero of international bestseller The Art of Staying Dead and Dead North, ten years younger than we last saw him, and a lot less wise.
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CAGED – A SAM WILLIAMS SHORT
Promises come with consequences.
Binny Carnegie doesn't want her notorious night club shut down. Lawyer Sam Williams wouldn't normally care, but it's his job to fix Binny Carnegie's problems.
Fixing this particular problem might be more trouble than it's worth.
Caged is another snapshot of Sam Williams, hero of international bestseller The Art of Staying Dead and Dead North, back in his formative legal years at Mauriers.
Please note that Caged is a short story, not a full length novel.
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BREXECUTION
There are thirty-three million stories on referendum night. This one has the highest body count.
Dave Fenton sleeps by day and drives a taxi by night. As the counting commences in the most important vote in Britain's history, one passenger leaves something in his cab.
Something secret.
Something explosive.
Something so dangerous there are people who will stop at nothing to get it back.
From Downing Street to the East End via the City and a whole bit of the country that isn't London at all, BREXECUTION is a fictionalised account of the closing days of June 2016. Politicians, bankers, cabbies and crooks - some will win, some will lose - and some won't make it past the first day of Brexit.
From Joel Hames, author of international bestseller The Art of Staying Dead, comes a thriller you’ll want to put your cross on.
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BANKERS TOWN
The number 1 bestselling financial thriller, "A real page turner - a hugely enjoyable, often funny, always intense thriller of a book"
“This time everyone else had their ducks lined up and every last duck had “Alex Konninger” written in bold marker-pen on its forehead. If I didn’t crack this fast, those ducks would be shot, shredded and rolled into pancakes before you could say hoi sin sauce.”
Everything’s going rather well for Alex Konninger. He’s drifted his way into a big-money job in a top-tier bank, and if he doesn’t always play by the rules, he’s hardly the only one. Alex doesn’t know it yet, but he’s got a problem, a whole army of problems, in fact, and they’ve all picked this week to jump on him. He’s losing control, his past is about to catch up with him, and he doesn’t know who he can trust, because someone wants him out, and it looks like someone else wants him dead.
In a world of bonds, bodies and blackmail, not everyone will make it to drinks on Friday.
Welcome to Bankers Town, the explosive thriller from Joel Hames
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Acknowledgements
THIS BOOK HAS had a difficult journey, from its genesis, in the dark, on a ferry midway between France and England when the notions of silence and manipulation wrapped themselves around classical myth and became the character of Lizzy Maurier, to the point at which I delivered it to editors and beta readers knowing, as I pressed send, that I was delivering something markedly different from most of my previous work. No One Will Hear is still a Sam Williams book, and I’m confident that his friends and fans will enjoy it as much as they have enjoyed Sam’s previous expeditions. But it’s also, and more than anything else I have written in a long time, a Joel Hames book, marking a stage at which I have given freer rein to my own interests and obsessions than at any point since Bankers Town.
Gratifyingly, those editors and beta readers did precisely what I had hoped, and it is due to their kindness and expertise that this book has been allowed to complete its odyssey and reach the light of day. Thanks are due in particular to those individuals listed below.
John Bowen, whose advice and skill in writing and marketing and design have been critical to any success I’ve met with.
Joanna Franklin Bell, whose brilliant editorial knowhow has torn my books to shreds and rebuilt them word by painstaking word.
Tracy Fenton, founder of THE Book Club on Facebook, blogger and blog tour organiser extraordinaire. Helen Boyce, indefatigable admin and contributor to TBC, but more than that, a tireless and remarkably effective evangelist for authors and books of all types. These people are the best friends to authors and readers that any of us could hope for. The whole team at TBC are due my thanks and the thanks of many an author.
Ray Green and Rose Edmunds, fellow Mainsail writers, for all their help.
And finally: my wife, Sarah, with whom twenty-three hours a day still somehow isn’t enough. My children, Eve and Rose, for making so many of those hours shine. And my parents, Valerie and Tony, for everything they’ve done for me over the decades, and for supporting my endeavours as an author.
