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Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. In this second dip into his case files (see 1000 Yards for a further novella), Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15.

John Milton lebt seit sechs Monaten unter dem Radar. In Ciudad Juárez, Mexiko, taucht er wieder auf und gerät unversehens in eine wütende Schlacht zwischen den Narco-Gangs, die das Grenzland kontrollieren. Milton bewahrt eine idealistische junge Journalistin vor der Hinrichtung. In Sicherheit kann er sie nur bringen, wenn er sie über die Grenze nach Texas schmuggelt. Mit Hilfe des einzigen unbestechlichen Polizisten in der Stadt und einem Kopfgeldjäger mit unklaren Motiven muss Milton sie beschützen, bis der Grenzübertritt möglich ist.

When Milton is arrested following a brawl in a Texas bar, the last person he expected to bail him out was a glamorous operative from the Russian Secret Service. The Russians blackmail Milton into finding his predecessor. But she's a ghost, like him, and just as dangerous. Milton finds himself in deep trouble, playing the Russians against the British in a desperate race against time with the life of his oldest friend on the line.

Milton is keeping a low profile in London when he meets Eddie Fabian. Fabian confesses that he is considering suicide, and that the reason for his depression was the abuse that he suffered as a child. Milton offers to help, but, before he can, Eddie is found dead in circumstances that Milton considers suspicious. And then events take a turn that no-one could have anticipated....

John Milton war der gefährlichste Auftragskiller der Gruppe Fünfzehn, der Organisation für verdeckte Operationen, die für die Lösung von Problemen zuständig ist, wenn die Diplomatie versagt. Jetzt ist Milton der meistgesuchte Flüchtling Ihrer Majestät – ein namenloser Einzelgänger mit einer ganzen Palette tödlicher Talente. Als Milton nach einer Schlägerei in einer texanischen Bar verhaftet wird, ist eine schillernde Agentin des russischen Geheimdiensts so ziemlich die Letzte, von der er Hilfe erwartet hätte. Die Russen erpressen Milton, seine Vorgängerin zu finden.

Tauchen Sie ein in eine der erfolgreichsten Kriminal-Serien der Welt! Der britische Geheimdienst hat ihn erschaffen - Jetzt wollen sie ihn vernichten. John Milton war ein Attentäter für den britischen Geheimdienst. Er gehörte zur absoluten Elite: kaltblütig, gnadenlos, spurlos. Doch jahrelange Auftragsmorde haben ihre Spuren hinterlassen. Milton wird von Schuldgefühlen geplagt und von den Geistern seiner Vergangenheit heimgesucht. In einem Versuch, Buße zu tun, beginnt er jenen zu helfen, die von der Gesellschaft im Stich gelassen wurden.

John Milton was just passing through. But when a chance glimpse of an old friend drags him off course, he finds himself in Clearwater Springs—a forgotten town poisoned by corporate greed and held hostage by fear. Caterina Moreno was supposed to disappear. Years ago, Milton risked everything to help her escape Mexico and a cartel death sentence. Now she’s resurfaced under a new name, fighting a different kind of war. She’s taking on the powerful fracking company that’s been making people sick and silencing anyone who dares speak out.

In a world where loyalty is fleeting and alliances are temporary, John Milton is on a mission that will bring him face-to-face with enemies old and new. When his friend, Alex Hicks, finds himself pursued by mysterious adversaries, the two men are thrust back into the web of international espionage. Navigating a perilous path that stretches from the war-torn streets of Ukraine to the icy wastelands of Siberia, Milton will stop at nothing to protect his friends and expose a conspiracy that could topple governments and jeopardize global security.

When John Milton stumbles into a small town plagued by scams, secrets, and a brutal criminal family, he plans to keep his head down. But after a deadly ambush leaves him tied up and dragged into the Appalachians, Milton finds himself face-to-face with an ancient tree—and a noose meant for his neck.

A visionary genius introduces a new cryptocurrency that promises to upend the global banking system and change the lives of those who invest in it. Tens of thousands of people around the world part with millions of dollars, only to discover that everything is not what it seems. John Milton finds himself in a support group for investors who lost everything. And if there's one thing about Milton, it's this: he's not about to let an injustice this unfair go uncorrected.

On the run from his own demons, John Milton treks through the Michigan wilderness into the town of Truth. He’s not looking for trouble, but trouble's looking for him. He finds himself up against a small-town cop who has no idea with whom he is dealing, and no idea how dangerous he is. But Milton is double crossed and badly injured. Unarmed and alone, he flees into the remote Porcupine Mountains with a posse on his tail. His enemies thought they could hunt him down. That was a mistake and, where Milton is concerned, one mistake is all you get.

Er hat einen Job als Taxifahrer in den Straßen von San Francisco. Er lebt anonym und zurückgezogen. Aber als ein Mädchen, das er zu einer Party fährt, verschwindet, macht Milton sich Sorgen, erst recht, als dann zwei Leichen gefunden werden und die Polizei ihn als ihren Hauptverdächtigen behandelt. Milton ist auf der Flucht vor dem britischen Geheimdienst, und ein Mann in seiner Lage kann zusätzliche Aufmerksamkeit nicht gebrauchen. Unerfreuliche Geheimnisse dringen an die Öffentlichkeit, und die Zahl der Leichen wächst.

When an inmate is found unresponsive in his high security cell at Belmarsh prison, he's rushed to hospital for treatment. The prisoner is human trafficker and international fixer Tristan Huxley, a man a lot of people have good reason to want dead. But Huxley mysteriously never makes it to the hospital. He may have plenty of enemies but it seems he has some very powerful friends too.

John Milton is trying to make amends for a career spent killing for the British Secret Service. He has a burning need to right wrongs—and rewrite his own bloody past. He finds himself in Louisiana—the Big Sleazy, the bayou, and the post-Katrina wreckage of the Gulf Coast—with a debt of honor to repay. Isadora Bartholomew, who saved his partner's life, needs his help. Joel Babineaux, a ruthless property magnate, is out to sink the charity she established to help rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward. 

John Milton is working in a hotel kitchen while searching for information on the Group Fifteen agent who betrayed him in Russia. His plans are upended when a deadly shooting places an innocent young girl in his path. Aided by an enigmatic woman he meets in the hotel, he rescues the girl and plunges headfirst into a deadly feud between two criminal families feuding in the run-up to a high-stakes MMA fight. In the underbelly of the city, where alliances are as brittle as glass, Milton must navigate through treacherous secrets and betrayals.

John Milton travels to Bali in search of a new identity, but he can't even manage the flight without finding someone who needs his help. A beautiful woman falls ill and confesses that she has swallowed packages of cocaine in order to smuggle it across the border. She has been forced to work as a mule by a Yakuza gang in Tokyo who are holding her child to guarantee her compliance. Milton decides that's unacceptable and promises to lend her his help.

John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn’t want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing, Milton is worried. Especially when two dead bodies are discovered and the police start treating him as their prime suspect. Milton is a fugitive from the British Secret Service and a man in his position needs extra attention like he needs a hole in the head.

Disappearing into London's bustling East End and holing up in a vacant flat, Milton becomes involved with his neighbour Sharon and her troubled son Elijah, who are caught in an increasingly bloody turf war between two rival gangs. Unable to ignore the threat, Milton sets about protecting mother and son, meeting violence with violence. But his involvement puts him in the sights of the government's next best killer, and before long Milton is not just fighting to save a family and a home—he's fighting to stay alive...

Eighteen years ago, on a mission in Iraq, Captain John Milton made a reckless decision with serious consequences. But it was Major Connor Gordon who really paid the price. Now Milton is on a different mission: to atone for his past sins. A human rights activist has vanished without a trace and his dying mother is desperate to know the truth. When the mysterious disappearance leads Milton all the way to the Western Isles of Scotland, he sees an opportunity to find his old friend Connor and finally make amends. Milton is determined to track both men down, wherever his search may lead.

Après un boulot bâclé qui a laissé une traînée sanglante derrière lui, le tueur à gages John Milton fait ce qu'il n'a jamais fait auparavant : il se cache. Disparaissant dans l'agitation de l'East End londonien, terré dans un appartement, Milton se voit impliqué dans la vie chaotique d'une mère, Sharon, et de son adolescent tourmenté, Elijah. Tous deux sont piégés dans une guerre de territoire de plus en plus sanglante opposant deux gangs rivaux.