Jake Ord lives in peaceful seclusion with his companion, Magda, in a small town in Portugal. They each have something to hide, but their life together is just how they want it: tranquil, safe and agreeably boring. THEN JAKE RECEIVES A PHONE CALL THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING. Crime boss Ed Fogarty has escaped from prison. He wants revenge on those who put him there. He also wants the missing £20 million from his last heist. Fogarty is ticking names off his hit list. He knows where Jake lives. It’s time for Jake and Magda to run. But Magda is no stranger to the criminal underworld—or to the violent men hunting them. CAN JAKE REALLY TRUST HER?

Retired secret service agent Jake Ord wakes up with a bad feeling. Something has spooked the sheep on his quiet Northumbrian hillside . . . SUDDENLY BULLETS ARE WHISTLING PAST HIS HEAD, SHATTERING THE PLASTER OF THE WALL BEHIND HIM. That was the sniper’s first mistake. He missed. THEN A LOCAL MAN FROM THE VILLAGE IS FOUND BURNED TO DEATH IN HIS CAR. Was it just a case of mistaken identity? What’s really going on? Jake teams up with MI5 agent Anna and Dixie, his late wife’s best friend. Together, they must race against time to stop the assailant. THE LATEST ACTION-PACKED THRILLER FROM DAN LATUS MEET JAKE ORD, an ex-spook who does not dwell on the past. Why would he? It holds few attractions for him. He just wants some peace and quiet in his retirement. But characters from the old days keep cropping up. And they always bring trouble. Luckily, Jake is a man who can handle himself. And he’s not afraid of getting his hands dirty.

‘You’re the best man for it, Jake.’ How often has Jake Ord heard that line? This time it’s his old boss Sir Giles Henderson asking him to babysit a Russian fugitive, of all things. Yuri Bortsov was involved in a failed coup and the American rescue attempt ended in carnage. Every operative was slaughtered. Now the Russians are after him. Which can only mean one thing—Jake is his last resort. Jake is sent to Budva, Montenegro, where Bortsov is holding out in. And so begins a desperate race across Europe. Jake and his girlfriend Magda take Bortsov to the Portuguese island of Armona, with a gang of ruthless hitmen hot on their heels. They just have to keep him alive until the exfiltration team can reach them. But the Russians are always one step ahead. And they’re closing in . . .

A British mole in a Czech intelligence service is being hunted by both her own department and a Russian hit squad, both desperate to shut her up as well as wanting vital information from her. Ex-spy Jake Ord and partner Magda are commissioned by Jake’s former boss to help her. Petra wants them to help her find a secret arms depot left by the Red Army when Russia withdrew from what was then Czechoslovakia in 1993. Chased, hunted, attacked, they find it, and so avert the return of units of the Red Army to a country that had almost forgotten about the long years of Soviet occupation until Russian forces began to build up on the Ukraine border in 2021.