Andrew Towning - Jake Dillon Adventure series

#1 - Constantine Legacy:
At the bottom of the English Channel, not far from Sandbanks, Jake and his team find more than they bargained for! Entwined within the brief of keeping the Cabinet Minster’s reputation intact is a dangerous operation to pass off a deal with the Sicilian Mafia. Jake puts his life on the line once again to go beyond the call of duty to protect more than just a minister’s public image! While based in Sandbanks Jake’s investigations bring him face to face with a generation of hate-fuelled revenge, greed and international drug deals that operate under a covert cloak of respectability. Calling in favours and using the best of his well-established contacts Jake starts to see beyond the brief. Partnered with his highly able colleague Vince Sharp and also seemingly ‘landed’ with agent Fiona Price, who has her own agenda that unfolds with every turn of this action-packed novel, Jake makes progress that unnerves even his stony-faced employers. The action bounds by land and sea, the length of the UK to the Balearics and Africa…

#2 - Dead Men Don't Bite:
Dead Men Don't Bite, sees Jake Dillon recalled back to London after a covert operation in Cuba by his stalwart boss, Edward Levenson-Jones. The order has come from former Prime Minister, Sir Lucius Stagg because an international crisis is looming. The wreck of a World War Two Nazi U-boat has been discovered in a subterranean cavern on the treacherous northern coast of the Channel Island of Jersey. It's exact location remains a mystery, as the man who made the discovery is deliberately mowed down on a crossing by a hit and run driver, leaving him in a deep coma. In the U-boat is Nazi gold bullion and the Spear of Destiny along with other long forgotten secrets.

#3 Shroud of Concealment
A stolen Vermeer painting, liberated from a Boston Museum By a scurrilous gang of art thieves, turns up in a private collection of the enigmatic – and very wealthy – Mr Charlie Hart. The Home Secretary’s office would like to return it to the American’s, but, for various reasons, sees it as a delicate matter. It asks the not-so-delicate, former army intelligence officer, Jake Dillon to investigate. Maybe his network of underworld connections will lead him into places where the Police and the Security Services fear to tread. But Dillon takes a short cut. He rings up Hart and asks him. And all hell breaks loose. His Porsche 911 is blown up. A contract is put out on him. His lawyer girlfriend and anyone seen with him are also targets. But who is the enemy hunting him? And why? Increasingly isolated, Dillon starts to lift layer by dangerous layer of immensely well concealed information which leads him away from the painting and into the world of organised crime, drug running and an unsolved gold bullion heist that happened over 25 years ago. The closer he gets to finding out the truth, the more determined those involved are to have him killed. Unable to resist a challenge, Dillon delves even deeper into the mysterious backgrounds of several high profile figures and one in particular who has a secret and most incredible past, but with every step there is a landmine..

#4 Chimera Code
From Scotland to Sandbanks and Santorini Jake Dillon is lured into another thrilling assignment opposing an inimitable yet unseen adversary – the ultimate destructive technology – The Chimera Code! Escaping death and cheating Assassins Dillon seeks out those that demand the destruction of ‘Scorpion’ – the British Government’s secret organisation that exists to fight a covert war against fanatics of every faith and political persuasion. Dillon’s extraordinary skills wreak havoc amongst his adversaries, traitors and terrorists alike, against all the odds in a bid to stop the unleashing of the ultimate viral weapon, and the global institutional and personal meltdown that will surely follow…