The Gentle Assassin

A thriller with the pace and tension of Mark Billingham and the laconic style of Ramond Chandler

It wasn't every day you had the chance to track down the man who'd killed your mother.

In 1964, Andrew Combs' mother is killed in front of him. His father Harry vanishes soon afterwards. Twenty-six years later Andrew wants revenge. There's only one way he can let go of his past and become the man he wants to be: track down and kill his mother's murderer. His father. But while Andrew thinks he knows what happened all those years ago, the truth is far darker. For Harry Combs turns out to be a man of many secrets. As shadowy figures from Harry's past threaten his life, and Andrew inches closer to killing him, the two men find themselves playing a very dangerous game of life and death—and only one of them can survive.

Ryan David Jahn is the author of The Dispatcher and Good Neighbors, which won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Dagger. His work has been translated into 12 languages. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.