Target Zero (signed)

Mickey Bale, an elite close protection officer, must locate Russian military-grade warheads in the second gripping British thriller from Anthony Riches.

'Fast-moving... The Bill meets Jack Reacher' THE TIMES

Former close protection officer Mickey Bale has a dangerous skillset. One that many men – good and bad – want to make use of.

That's why a powerful Russian oligarch wants to hire Mickey to protect him. And with Mickey's wife gone and his track record with the Met in tatters, Mickey doesn't feel he has a choice.

But when a terrorist attack on the M11 kills a police firearms team, MI5 suspect that Mickey's new client and the Russian GRU are involved. The bomb was a Sunburn missile warhead, military-grade and able to vaporise everything in its blast radius. And there are more warheads out there.

Blackmailed by MI5 into spying on the client he's been hired to protect, Mickey is pushed to his limits by this new double-agent status. If he doesn't locate the other warheads, thousands of civilians will die – and time is running out...

Praise for Anthony Riches:

'Nemesis is a full-throttle adventure that twists and turns from the corridors of power to London's gangland underbelly, propelled by a hero with a thirst for vengeance and the skillset to execute it' Andy McNab

'Nemesis kicks like a 12-bore shotgun... A British thriller to rival Reacher' Giles Kristian

'Mickey Bale is a Jack Reacher for a harder, faster, more assured millennium. Nemesis is the kind of book for which the word 'compelling' was coined' Manda Scott

'Meet Mickey Bale – London's John Wick. A rocket-propelled grenade of a book, shot through with gallows humour. Guy Ritchie meets Lee Child' Robyn Young

Anthony Riches, coming from a family with an army background, has always been fascinated by military history, psychology and weaponry, which led him to write the Empire series set in ancient Rome. The idea for his first contemporary thriller, Nemesis, came to him while jetlagged at two in the morning in a Brisbane hotel room. He lives in rural Suffolk with his wife, two dogs the size of ponies and a bad-tempered cat.

Follow Anthony on www.anthonyriches.com @AnthonyRiches