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It’s Here: SILENT FLIGHT HOLY NIGHT

SILENT FLIGHT HOLY NIGHT, my new YA book, has been released by Level Best Books. Available wherever you get your books or e-books.

“Father Christmas doesn’t exist, you sad sack.”
Danny Scipio looked at Gary Hingely and felt anger rise inside him. “Since we’re flying to Lapland so these…” He indicated the other orphans in the airport. “Can go meet Santa, it proves just what a slime fest you really are.”
Hingely wasn’t finished. “I know why you’re naffed off. And it isn’t ‘cos you want to see Santa.”
“A bit old for that anyway aren’t we?”
“It’s ‘cos nobody wanted you to come, but they couldn’t leave you behind.”
And that was a truth that Danny couldn’t deny.

The Christmas flight to Lapland for orphans from Delph Hill Children’s Home is an annual event intended to bring good cheer and season’s greetings. The subsequent plane crash in a blizzard brings anything but. It makes headlines in seventeen countries, not because of where it is or the time of year, but because of who the passengers are. Twenty-seven underprivileged children, three social workers, and two teachers. And one thorn-in-the-side who doesn’t want to be there anyway. But with the plane snapped in two, and Danny Scipio tossed out of the tail section, the thorn-in-the-side is the only hope the other twenty-seven have.

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News & Events - 03/28/2024
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Pre-order: Operation Snow Queen

OPERATION SNOW QUEEN - A Jim Grant Thriller is available to pre-order now. Coming from Down & Out Books on February 5th 2024.

“You could well be the worst typist in the Corps. Which is a shame because you could have been one of the best soldiers I ever trained.”
Sgt Hopkins looked at Pte Grant. “Being good at weapons drills and unarmed combat isn’t everything. But what you’ve done today. That’s a different matter.”
“What have I done today?”
“The number one rule of any soldier, combat, clerk or engineer. What every soldier learns. Is that you don’t fight for your government, your queen or your country. You fight for the man beside you. You help dig his trench. You watch his back. And you throw yourself on the grenade to save him.”
“I didn’t throw myself on a grenade.”
“You ruined your career and your future for the man beside you at Waterloo Station. I hope he appreciates what you’ve done.”

3BAPD, Bracht, Germany
Before Snake Pass saw Jim Grant sent to America, and before Jamaica Plain saw Grant recruited by Boston PD, and even before the Black Hawk Down incident when he was in the British Army. Before all of that there was Operation Snow Queen. With only two years’ service, Grant is posted to Germany after a runaway suitcase at Waterloo Station breaks a civilian passenger’s leg. He replaces a Company Clerk who lost his head in an accident, and a smuggling ring that doesn’t want him. Following an explosion at the Ammunition Depot, and a court martial in Dusseldorf, Grant is assigned to a training exercise in Bavaria. A place where landslides and falling off a mountain are the least of his worries.

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News & Events - 01/21/2024
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RUINS OF MIDNIGHT: ITW Q&A

The following Question and Answer session was generated by International Thriller Writers (ITW) and was featured on Down & Out Books website.

• ITW: Which took shape first: plot, character, or setting?
“I am going to go completely off piste here, since this is a reissue of a previously published book. I wrote, Through the Ruins of Midnight over 20 years ago, back when I had a fondness for elaborate titles. I have reduced it because even I used to stumble over it when discussing the book. So, plot, character or setting? They all came fully formed. The plot is real life squeezed into a single night shift. The characters are real, with a few minor tweaks and a change of name. And the setting is the police division where I worked, with a bit of creative licence.”

• ITW: What do you hope readers will take away from this book?
“A feeling of what being a police officer does to your life. I think it was Joseph Wambaugh (a great inspiration to me) who said his books aren’t about the police working the case, but how working the case affects the police. This book does both.”

• ITW: What attracts you to this book’s genre?
“Write what you know. I know this.”

• ITW: How does this book make a contribution to the genre?
“Not so much a contribution to the genre as a tribute to the boys in blue. Uniform police who are the front line of defence against chaos. This is for them.”

• ITW: No spoilers, but what can you tell us about your book that we won’t find in the jacket copy or the PR material?
“Nothing. It’s all on the page.”

• ITW: What authors or books have influenced your career as a writer, and why?
“This answer will never change because my past is set in stone. As a reader I was influenced by C S Forester, Stephen King and Ian Fleming. Then I found Joseph Wambaugh and my direction was set. As a retired police office how could I not write crime fiction? My first crime books were in support of The Boys In Blue but then I slipped into thriller territory and my inspirations changed. Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Reed Farrel Coleman, Nick Petrie and Ace Atkins. Everything you read and watch influences your choices. Everywhere you go filters into your choice of location. I suppose the simple answer is, I’m influenced by everything.”

News & Events - 11/14/2023
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It’s Back: Reissue of Ruins Of Midnight

Reissue of RUINS OF MIDNIGHT is available to pre-order now. Coming from Down & Out Books on November 6th 2023.

Mick Habergham enjoys working the nightshift; patrolling the midnight hours when the world is asleep and police work is simple. Sunday night should be quiet but, as his mind wrestles with divorcing Angela, it will prove to be anything but. From the mad knifeman of Hill Top Hostel to the most inept suicide attempt at the House of Pain, Mick will face all manner of obstacles to a peaceful night. If it isn’t Marak Vargo or Booger Smith, it will be the tragic pensioners of Maple Court or the battle of The Alex Public House. Midnight ruins so many lives. Tonight, one will threaten Mick’s own. If he wants a happy retirement he will first have to walk through fields of heartache and survive the ruins of midnight.

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News & Events - 11/05/2023
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First Look: Ruins Of Midnight cover

Here is a first look at the cover of Ruins Of Midnight, previously published as, Through The Ruins Of Midnight, an Ecclesfield Division novel, coming in November 2023 from Down & Out Books.

News & Events - 09/17/2023
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Fourteen Book Deal – Level Best Books

Level Best Books, near Washington DC, have signed a fourteen book contract with Colin Campbell. The deal includes eight YA novels and six standalone crime thrillers. Titles, in no particular order, are;

YA:
Silent Flight Holy Night, The Early Grave of Sophie Laville, The Boy Who Burgled Hartley's, Occluded Front, Three Into Two Will Go, and the Gargoyles trilogy; Skylights and Roofscapes, Stoneheart and Bloodline, and Return of the Krol.

STANDALONE CRIME:
Devil's Coast, Night Delivery, Burgos, Silent Coast, Return To Silent Coast, and Darkest Blue.

Silent Flight Holy Night will be released March 24th 2024. Devil's Coast is due, October 24th 2024.

News & Events - 09/14/2023
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