Nick Brownlee – författare

Ex-Flying Squad cop Jake Moore''s career was cut short by a bullet; ten years on, he runs a game fishing business that is about to go to the wall. But old habits die hard, and when cerebral Mombasa detective Daniel Jouma - seemingly the only good policeman in a city where corruption is king - asks for his help in solving a baffling murder case, he cannot help but become involved. The mangled body of a street criminal has been washed up on the beach and a fishing boat skipper and his bait boy have blown up in the water. When Jake and Jouma look closer, they discover that not only are the murders linked, but the conspiracy surrounding them stretches far beyond the reaches of Africa - and has deadly implications for everyone concerned.This gripping crime thriller strips away Kenya''s tourist glitz and exposes the country''s dark and treacherous underbelly beneath.

Just when Inspector Daniel Jouma believes calm has returned to Mombasa, all hell breaks loose. Bodies are piling up in the morgue, Jouma''s new boss wants answers - and the mayor wants him out. Meanwhile, bulldozers are hurtling towards Jake Moore''s stomping ground. Playing hero, the maverick cop turned fishing-boat skipper faces up to the might of Kenya''s most ruthless - and dangerous - developer.Then a chilling secret, long thought to be buried in the ashes of a deadly inferno, brings the crime-busting duo together once again. And Jake and Jouma are about to discover that, when you play with fire, someone always gets burned...

They call me the Headhunter...you may be familiar with my work.''It''s Christmas and a machete-wielding predator with links to Kenya''s most feared crime organisation is handing out severed heads as gifts. As The Headhunter''s gruesome spree spreads to Mombasa, Inspector Daniel Jouma finds himself drawn once again into the island''s toxic heart. Meanwhile, when an old friend becomes the killer''s latest victim, fishing boat skipper Jake Moore decides it''s personal - and sets out to avenge a grieving widow and her children.Two men. One target. Both set on a collision course with a conspiracy that threatens to turn Kenya into a tribal bloodbath. The stakes could not be higher. But can Jake and Jouma keep their heads - while all about them are losing theirs?

It''s been a hell of a year - and for Detective Inspector Daniel Jouma and his friend, ex-policeman Jake Moore, a fishing trip together represents some long-overdue down time. As usual, trouble is not far behind; and when the two men are kidnapped at sea by a gang of murderous Somalis they find themselves held hostage on board a ship run by notorious pirate Omar Abdulle.To stay alive they must pool all their accumulated expertise first to catch a killer - and then to survive on the run in Somalia itself, a lawless land of cut-throats and bandits known as the Snakepit of Africa. As the hunters close in on their prey Jake and Jouma embark on a terrifying race for their live- one in which the stakes are quite simply a matter of life or death.