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John Milton has finally found a place to escape the bloodshed: off-season Coney Island. No tourists. No special ops. Just peace and quiet. But when a local boy witnesses a grisly murder, Britain's finest ex-assassin can't resist investigating. Milton uncovers a vicious drug kingpin and a group of crooked cops from a notorious precinct known as "The Alamo." Against such dangerous foes, his hunt for retribution could end in one final battle.
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John Milton novels volume 1
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" A career of state-sanctioned murder has taken its toll. Milton is troubled by nightmares, a long line of ghosts who torment his dreams. He resolves to make his next job his last and, then, perhaps, he can start to make amends for everything that he has done. Sharon Warriner is a single mother in the East End of London, suicidal with fear that she's lost her young son to a life in the gangs. After Milton saves her life, he promises to help. But the...
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John Milton novels volume 9
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"John Milton is no stranger to the world's seedy underbelly. But when the former British Secret Service agent comes up against a ruthless human trafficking ring, he'll have to fight harder than ever to conquer the evil in his path"--Page [4] of cover.
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John Milton novels volume 5
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"John Milton, a former British assassin, treks through the Michigan wilderness into the town of Truth. He is not looking for trouble, but trouble's looking for him. He finds himself up against a small-town cop who has no idea with whom he is dealing, and no idea how dangerous he is. But Milton is double crossed and badly injured. Unarmed and alone, he flees into the remote Porcupine Mountains with a a posse on his tail. His enemies thought they could...
5) Twelve days
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John Milton volume 14
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"John Milton hasn't seen Elijah Warriner for three years. The last time they met, Milton's efforts to to keep the boy safe didn't go exactly to plan. Now Elijah is a promising boxer, preparing for the bout that will take him to the big time. Milton decides that he will spend the week before Christmas in London so that he can watch the fight. But Elijah's burgeoning fame has brought him to the attention of old acquaintances with long memories and grudges...
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John Milton novels volume 8
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"Milton is keeping a low profile in London when he meets Eddie Fabian. Fabian confesses that he is considering suicide, and that the reason for his depression was the abuse that he suffered as a child. Milton offers to help, but, before he can, Eddie is found dead in circumstances that Milton considers suspicious. And then events take a turn that no-one could have anticipated... Milton's attempted good deed becomes a quest to unveil corruption at...
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John Milton novels volume 4
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"John Milton is a ghost. He was Number One. The most dangerous assassin in Group Fifteen, the black-ops organization that solves problems when diplomacy has failed. Now Milton is Her Majesty's most wanted fugitive--an anonymous loner with a deadly set of skills. So when he is arrested following a brawl in a Texas bar, the last person he expected to bail him out was a glamorous operative from the Russian Secret Service. Milton is blackmailed into finding...
8) Sleepers
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John Milton volume 13
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When a Russian defector is assassinated in a sleepy English seaside town, Group Fifteen agents John Milton and Michael Pope find themselves in a rush to uncover the culprits and bring them to justice. Their investigation leads them to Moscow and a confrontation with Directorate S, the agency responsible for seeding Russian sleeper agents around the world. When lies and double crossing mean that no-one is what they seem, the two agents - alone and...
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John Milton novels volume 3
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"John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn't want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing, Milton is worried. Especially when two dead bodies are discovered and the police start treating him as their prime suspect. Milton is a fugitive from the British...
10) Bright lights
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John Milton volume 15
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"John Milton has done some bad things in his life. Very bad things. Now he's looking for ways to make amends. But trouble always seems to be looking for him. Heading from San Francisco to Las Vegas, Milton's solo road trip takes an unexpected turn when he picks up Jessica Russo, a young woman in distress at the side of the road. She urgently needs a ride and he's happy to help her out. But what starts out as a simple favour quickly becomes something...
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John Milton novels volume 7
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"Bury your enemies, and bury them deep. John Milton thought he was done with Avi Bachman. The most dangerous man he's ever known has been incarcerated in Angola, the brutal Louisiana prison. Inmates rarely leave Angola. Once you go in, the only way out is in a box. But Bachman is no ordinary prisoner. He was an assassin for the Mossad, and he has favours to call in. Milton is in the Australian outback with an old friend and his flirtatious kid sister,...
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John Milton novels volume 2
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John Milton, a former British assassin, has been trying to erase the bad memories of his recent jobs. He eventually appears in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where he is drawn into a vicious battle with narco-gangs that control the borderlands. He saves the life of an idealistic journalist and tries to keep her safe until he can smuggle her into Texas where she will be safe. It is a race to beat the assassin Santa Muerta (Saint Death) who is trailing them....
13) Killa city
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A storm is brewing in the heartlands of America and John Milton senses something in the air...John Milton has a nose for trouble. He can smell it a mile away. And when he witnesses a suspicious altercation between a young man and two thugs in a car auction parking lot, he can't resist getting involved. Milton came to Kansas City hoping to find a way out of danger. His recent vendetta against a cartel hitman who killed his friend has made him enemies...
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John Milton volume 19
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Eighteen years ago, on a mission in Iraq, Captain John Milton made a reckless decision with serious consequences. But it was Major Connor Gordon who really paid the price. Now Milton is on a different mission: to atone for his past sins by helping those in need. A human rights activist has vanished without a trace and his dying mother is desperate to know the truth. When the mysterious disappearance leads Milton all the way to the Western Isles of...
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John Milton volume 16
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"John Milton is used to operating in the shadows, weaving his way through dangerous places behind a fake identity. Now, to avenge the death of a close friend, he must wear his mask of deception once more. Beau Baxter was brutally murdered by a drugs cartel but that doesn't stop Milton from blaming himself for his friend's death. With the help of a trusted team of undercover experts and Beau's son, Milton is determined to track down the killers. And...
16) Rōnin
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John Milton volume .18
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For years Milton has traveled the world as John Smith, making friends and enemies in equal measure. Now his ex-employer, the covert agency Group Fifteen, is on his tail. It's time to find a new identity. In his quest to stay off-grid, Milton heads to a friend who owes him a favor in Bali. But a chance meeting with the beautiful and enigmatic Sakura Nishimoto brings him even more unwanted attention. He's barely off the plane before he's being pursued...
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John Milton novels volume 6
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"John Milton is trying to make amends for a career spent killing for the British Secret Service. He has a burning need to right wrongs--and rewrite his own bloody past. He finds himself in Louisiana--the Big Sleazy, the bayou, and the post-Katrina wreckage of the Gulf Coast--with a debt of honor to repay. Isadora Bartholomew, who is his partner's wife, needs help. Joel Babineaux, a ruthless property magnate, is out to sink the charity she established...