Paul Silvestri – författare

Jack Castle's life is in one hell of a mess — credit companies are after him, his best friend Gary 'The Wizard of Odds' Dodds has cooked up another get-rich quick scheme that is a sure thing (sure enough to get them both arrested for fraud), and he's about to become entangled in a dangerous mess of a case. When a beautiful young girl shows up at his doorstep claiming to be his daughter, alarm bells go off. When Jack learns she's on the run, scared, and tells Jack that she thinks someone has killed her mother...and that someone is her stepfather. Whatever the outcome, Jack Castle will do what it takes to find the truth, no matter how painful it may be. And he'll even try not to get killed in the process.

Jack Castle, private eye, is looking forward to a quiet day fishing on the River Thames, while evading his debt collectors. Last month's bills were covered by a generous fee from a wealthy client for finding an antique jade rabbit figurine. His current client is an eccentric lady who has lost her prize-winning Khao Manee cat and is paying Jack a big retainer to cover his expenses for the next month.But Jack Castle's luck may have finally run out, when he is framed for murder and that the case of the jade rabbit wasn't quite as simple as it first appeared.

It's 1984 and the Miners' strike begins pitting the National Union of Mineworkers against Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government. WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman during a siege outside the Libyan Embassy in London in the event known as the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege. 11 other people are also shot but survive and DI Jack Castle is trying to figure out why Tommy Hearn was brushing shoulders with London's rich and famous.Tommy Hearn had a record as long as your arm. Aggravated Burglary, Robbery with violence, Actual Bodily Harm, Grievous Bodily Harm, attempted murder, anything with violence attached.Yet suddenly Tommy had a flat in Grosvenor Square, a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce and the very best taste in fine art, especially paintings from the Italian Renaissance period. And he was going straight? No way. But what was his angle? What took a violent career criminal into the discreetly venomous world of fine art? And without a blot on his newly established character?DI Jack Castle had to know. And Castle, the toughest and most ruthless officer in the Metropolitan Police Robbery Squad - would use every trick in the book to find out...

It's 1982 and Britain goes to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, Pope John Paul II visits the UK and DI Jack Castle is sent to New York to deliver evidence to the FBI for a Federal trial.When a man is brutally murdered in Manhattan. Castle is given the task of personally delivering vital prosecution papers to the FBI. He goes to New York and walks straight into the world of the East Coast Syndicate and international double-dealing, where he makes the biggest mistake of his career.Defying orders to return to London, Castle's stubborn streak puts him in line for liquidation by people to whom human lives are worth less than the price of a Coney Island hotdog.DI Jack Castle is a stubborn man, amoral, hating interference. He's a fighter against rank, regulations and crime. And he hates to lose.

1983 In scenes similar to the great depression, unemployment stands at a record high in Britain. The Brinks Mat robbers steal 26 million in gold from a warehouse at Heathrow Airport and DI Jack Castle of the Met's Robbery Squad has unwittingly assisted the escape of an armed assassin.On the 9th of February, a prominent Arab businessman suddenly cashed in all his oil wells on the third floor of the Wellesley Clinic, St John's Wood, London when a full clip of ammunition from a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun was emptied into him.The MP5 had taken off most of the businessman's head and right shoulder and reworked the bed headboard and the floor and walls of the room into something akin to a Jackson Pollock painting.He was the fourth victim in as many weeks.DI Jack Castle is put on the case and sent to investigate a group of mysterious murders among the rich and powerful of Knightsbridge and the affluent inhabitants of the French Riviera.At first sight, it appears that these leading Arab oil sheikhs and business entrepreneurs have been murdered to warn others of their kind to pay over multi-million-dollar blackmail sums to stay alive. But all is not as it appears...

Before Jack Castle was a Private Eye, he was a Detective Inspector.It's London, 1981. Britain is in the grip of a recession and the IRA is becoming increasingly active. Detective Inspector Jack Castle of London's Metropolitan Police Robbery Squad is working with his new Sergeant, George Davis as they try and catch a cop killer who has just landed in London on a flight from Miami.To complicate matters, DI Jack Castle has been partnered with Miami Police Lieutenant John Ellis, a man with revenge on his mind. Castle, pursuing a line of his own, finds the American difficult to work with and soon the two men are engulfed in a dangerous clash of personalities. It soon becomes apparent that Lieutenant John Ellis is a man that likes to shoot first and asks questions later. Castle soon finds himself embroiled in an investigation that grows into something much more violent and sinister than he had ever envisaged.