Douglas Blake, demobbed from the RAF after WWII, has rejoined the police and is now a detective.
Vincent ‘Vince’ Cabot, a successful career criminal and dealer in antiques. Whilst levelling the cellar floor beneath his shop has his interest piqued when he discovers a tunnel. After acquiring an ancient map formulates an audacious retirement plan.
Slowly their lives are drawn together in a tale of depravity, murder, love, robbery and retribution.
Fourteen years after the murder of his detective sergeant father Brian Blake graduates from university and follows in his father’s footsteps.
No3 District Police Training Centre, Pannal Ash, Harrogate. He knew the work would be hard. What he didn’t anticipate was the aggression and violence from a small minority. The ramifications of an interview by MI5. Nor the maelstrom when confronted by a forgotten face from his past. A cold-blooded killer who would think nothing of killing anyone who stood in his way.
Blake is now doing the job he’s always dreamed of, and doing it well. He and Lucy, the love of his life, will be getting married in weeks, until a blazing row throws everything into the air, like so many juggler’s balls.
Seconded to CID when it’s discovered that an acquaintance of his is a suspect in an ongoing police operation. He has no way of knowing that the operation could destroy his future. He could lose everything: His job. His chances of happiness with Lucy. Even his life.
It’s all a question of seconds.
With Claire’s birth Blake and Lucy could not be happier.
The discovery of a young woman’s body is the start of a chain of events that unleash Blake’s childhood demons and an enquiry stretching back decades. Those evil forces now working directly against him putting his entire future at risk.
No stone left unturned. Enemies, both old and new, play their part, even unwittingly. As the story races towards its climax Blake is tested to the limit.
This is Brian Blake’s first day as a Sergeant.
En route to his new posting, Blake’s discovery of an unmarked police car with a spent shotgun cartridge in the nearside footwell, two dead police officers, and a male in handcuffs in the rear propel him into the orbit of organised crime.
A journey that will threaten everything he holds dear, and put his own life on the line.
His empire was at stake. Witnesses must be silenced no matter what the cost.
An unidentified man is pulled naked from Black Moss reservoir and wakes in a Huddersfield hospital unable to remember his name, his history or how he arrived there. The only word left in his mind is ‘Quillon’.
Three men claiming to be from military intelligence are waiting at his bedside, but the greatest threat may already be inside his damaged mind.
Packed with espionage, murder, KGB intrigue, psychological manipulation and romance under fire, Quillon is a fast-moving British spy thriller where nobody is who they claim to be.
Jon Mason served for 29 years as a police officer. His Brian Blake novels draw on the atmosphere, procedures and realities of policing in 1960s Yorkshire, bringing an authenticity rarely found in modern crime fiction.