Code of Silence
(2021)(The first book in the Detective Inspector Taylor Thriller series)
A novel by Phillip Jordan
Belfast. A divided city rising from the ashes of its past.
Detective Inspector Veronica Taylor has staked her all in bringing down the corrupt magnate and paramilitary godfather, Gordon 'Monster' Beattie and the prosecution has ended in failure.
For Beattie, his exoneration has come at a price, indebted to a shadowy global organisation seeking to exploit his insidious criminal empire for their own gain.
When the murder of a ruthless criminal plunges the two opponents again into conflict, Taylor comes under increasing pressure from superiors in how to direct her case and Beattie is forced to face the consequences of his newly secured freedom.
As it becomes clear the killers thirst for murder may not be randomly orientated but an organised and brutal retribution, Beattie confronts the lie that built his fortune and Taylor is forced to face her demons.
Caught between her duty to intervene and her desire to let vengeance run its bloody course she finds herself trapped between exposing a revelation that could shatter the fragile peace and plunge her city back to violence or complicit in the CODE OF SILENCE.
CODE OF SILENCE is the first novel in the gripping Belfast Crime Series.
Explore the historic yet infamous city of Belfast in this lightning-fast police procedural from a new voice in British and Irish crime fiction that will keep you hooked until its explosive conclusion.
For fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart MacBride, Brian McGilloway and JD Kirk.
Buy today and uncover the secrets hidden by the CODE OF SILENCE.
Genre: Mystery
Detective Inspector Veronica Taylor has staked her all in bringing down the corrupt magnate and paramilitary godfather, Gordon 'Monster' Beattie and the prosecution has ended in failure.
For Beattie, his exoneration has come at a price, indebted to a shadowy global organisation seeking to exploit his insidious criminal empire for their own gain.
When the murder of a ruthless criminal plunges the two opponents again into conflict, Taylor comes under increasing pressure from superiors in how to direct her case and Beattie is forced to face the consequences of his newly secured freedom.
As it becomes clear the killers thirst for murder may not be randomly orientated but an organised and brutal retribution, Beattie confronts the lie that built his fortune and Taylor is forced to face her demons.
Caught between her duty to intervene and her desire to let vengeance run its bloody course she finds herself trapped between exposing a revelation that could shatter the fragile peace and plunge her city back to violence or complicit in the CODE OF SILENCE.
CODE OF SILENCE is the first novel in the gripping Belfast Crime Series.
Explore the historic yet infamous city of Belfast in this lightning-fast police procedural from a new voice in British and Irish crime fiction that will keep you hooked until its explosive conclusion.
For fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart MacBride, Brian McGilloway and JD Kirk.
Buy today and uncover the secrets hidden by the CODE OF SILENCE.
Genre: Mystery
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