Seventh

Author(s): Lewis Hastings

Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Era(s): Modern day

“A modern, multi-layered believable crime thriller, told via a trilogy and based on a true story.”

Summer 2014, the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, a place for which superlatives were created.

Expat British police officer John ‘Jack’ Cade has settled into a new lifestyle; deserted beaches, snow-capped mountains, and a sense of complete isolation, from every thing and every one. One morning, a pretty Eastern European woman called Elena Petrova walked into his life. Look away Jack – you’ve been burned before.

When Cade learned that she had been tracked down and left for dead on a rural road, he had an hour to make a decision. Stay in New Zealand and risk his own life, or return to his past and find the answers that he needs? With the help of an old friend he headed for Hong Kong where another acquaintance helped him to continue his quest. By now, London was calling.

Unknowingly, ten years earlier Cade had met Elena’s mother at the British border. He listened; she spoke. Her story so compelling that he risked his reputation to allow her to enter the country. They travelled to London where a new team was waiting to support Cade, and to extract what she knew. Her intelligence skills led him to the answer he had been seeking and in doing so she also risked everything.

Two days later at the behest of her ex-husband she was captured by a group calling itself the Seventh Wave; tortured and left to drown on the incoming morning tide.

Their leader, and her ex-husband, a man known simply as the Jackdaw had sought revenge. As the head of an organised crime syndicate hunted across Europe, he wanted more than money. He craved a reputation. With the luck of the devil himself, the answer presented itself in Hatton Garden, the home of Britain’s diamond trade.

What he found was priceless – a secret in the form of a highly classified document.

“The United Kingdom faces a governmental crisis over the potential release of this information. Your job is simple. The gloves are off Mr Cade, go and find the Jackdaw!”

This is only the beginning. The past is now the present.

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