The Drop: A David Blake Thriller

Well, white-collar gangster David Blake has just returned from vacation to the news that Mahoney’s money has gone missing under his watch. Blake is strictly an ideas man who launders cash through Newcastle nightclubs rather than breaking bones on the pavement.

In Mahoney’s firm, trusted lieutenants who misplace a fortune do not get demoted; they get handed over to an enforcer with a nail gun.

The man who last had the drop has also vanished. George “Geordie” Cartwright was supposed to carry the bag from a bent accountant in Grainger Street straight to a covert handover. Instead, the veteran courier disappeared into the pubs of the Bigg Market, leaving behind unpaid gambling debts and a trail gone ice cold.

On Tyneside, crossing a rival outfit earns a beating, but skimming from the boss invites an unmarked grave. David has forty-eight hours to track down the cash … or face bloody consequences.

Packed with action and attitude, The Drop is a gripping gangland thriller for fans of the hit films The Town and Goodfellas.

• Organized Crime: Shadowy Surrey fixer Amrein manages the monthly payoff that keeps Whitehall politicians and high-ranking police brass looking the other way.
• British Crime: From Quayside lap-dancing clubs to the railway arches of Gateshead, bent Detective Sergeant Sharp feeds intel to the syndicate while an ambitious new inspector builds a federal case.
• Morally Grey Hero: David Blake turns to his older brother Danny, a haunted Falklands veteran from 2 Para, and ex-soldier Palmer to survive an escalating underworld war.
• Betrayal: Bobby Mahoney’s empire fractures from within when high-level insiders trade secrets to Scottish rivals, putting Bobby’s twenty-one-year-old daughter Sarah directly in the line of fire.
• Also by This Author: The Damage.