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Ted Denton is an International award winning author published by U.S based Open Road Integrated Media’s crime and thriller specialist division Bloodhound Books. The group entertains an enormous readership reach.
His explosive debut novel TIGHT LIES is an exhilarating action thriller pitching the privileged seductive world of professional sport against a backdrop of political double dealing, corruption and brutal violence.
HOSTILE is the second in the Tom Hunter series. A notoriously dangerous Chinese corporate raider, immersed within organized crime and the secretive underworld of the Triads gangs, will stop at nothing to force the takeover of a British pharmaceutical company to steal invaluable breakthrough drug patents.
TIGHT LIES Synopsis
A young Daniel Ratchet arrives in Spain to begin his dream job as a golf agent on the European Tour. In London, the Russian Rublex Corporation, with its history mired in ‘Vory’ mafia criminality, is working on a huge gas deal off the Falkland Islands with the British government. Veteran civil servant Derek Hemmings is tasked to rubber-stamp the deal for the Foreign Office.
But things are not what they seem ... With the help of Wallace, a cantankerous old golf coach, Daniel discovers tournament fixing, fraud and corruption on the Tour, all at the seeming behest of Rublex. A thorn in the Russians’ side, Daniel is kidnapped before he can expose the truth. Wallace, desperate for help, contacts an old army buddy whose gun-for-hire Unit deploys loose cannon Tom Hunter on the mission to save him.
A tense race against time ensues – in rescuing Daniel from the clutches of the ‘Vory’ and for Hemmings in Whitehall to prove that the deadly deal is corrupt. The stakes are high. As the body count mounts can the volatile Hunter get to the truth or will it be too late?
Dead or alive. The truth always comes at a cost..
HOSTILE synopsis
A young financial executive is kidnapped before he can reveal his new boss’ plan to steal the patents to breakthrough anti-viral drugs in the fraudulent cut-price hostile takeover of a successful pharmaceutical company. Kidnap & rescue operative Tom Hunter is thrown into in a deadly race against time to find the hostage and expose the rogue deal.
A notoriously dangerous Chinese corporate raider will stop at nothing to force the takeover of a British pharmaceutical company. His aim is to destabilize, undermine and devalue the business before forcing an acquisition. Backed by the Chinese state, his objective is to gain, by stealth, the patents to game changing medication tied to a major national health contract in the wake of Covid-19. To force their compliance a violent Triad gang is enlisted to kidnap both the company’s founder and the banker caught up in the deal.
Kyle McGann, a young, ambitious financial executive joins an old school private London bank following its takeover by ruthless Chinese investors. But McGann quickly uncovers an underhand strategy favoured by new Chairman, Eric Fu, of devaluing the share prices of successful growing companies, by whatever means necessary, before swooping in to acquire them on the cheap as other investors bail out.
Alec Bisset, the dogged head of unit at the British Financial Regulator, is intent on bringing the ruthless Fu to justice. His efforts are stymied from within the Government in Westminster at the behest of their Chinese paymasters; a fact that Bisset vows to expose.
When Kyle is kidnapped for knowing too much, and the founder of Fu’s latest hostile takeover also goes missing, the enigmatic Hand of God is contacted by his old school friend and former Chairman at the bank, to bring his discreet ex-military Unit into play and find the missing men. Specialist Kidnap and Rescue Operative Tom Hunter is thrust into action in a race against time and soon finds himself pitted against the violent Chinese Triad gang who have snatched the hostages.
Can Hunter locate the missing men and rescue them from their Triad captors before they are butchered? Will Eric Fu’s hostile takeover of the rising star of the British pharmaceutical sector and the intellectual property to their miraculous anti-viral wonder drugs succeed,? Can the dogged Alec Bisset uncover the corrupt criminal links deep within Government before it is too late? On the ‘Big Pharma’ battlefield of shady deals and hostile corporate takeovers a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, pitching the malevolent influence of foreign power, corrupt Governments and organized crime against those who are prepared to sacrifice everything to reveal the truth..
