Shadow Box

by Peter Cocks

“Sometimes, kid, we have to dance with the devil. And he’s calling the tune.”Tommy Kelly may be banged up, but he’s still pulling the strings. Calling Eddie Savage back into the world of intelligence to track down his daughter, Sophie, the king of crime is venturing into an uneasy relationship with the law. Eddie, meanwhile, has his own reasons for accepting the job. But it’s one that requires him to infiltrate the dark heart of the real IRA, a world of kneecappings, bare-knuckle fighting and horse trading – and to go beyond that to a murkier, harder place altogether; one that brings flooding back the circumstances around his brother’s death. Eddie wonders if this time he really has done a deal with the devil.

Genres: Fiction

249 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 18, 2016

About the author

Also writes as Will Peterson with Mark Billingham.

Peter Cocks was born in Gravesend, Kent and studied History of Art at UEA. He worked in interior design, antiques, fashion and performance art in London, New York and Japan before becoming a TV writer and performer in the 1990s. Peter has since performed in and written many BAFTA-nominated shows, such as 'Globo Loco', 'Basil Brush', 'Ministry of Mayhem' and 'The Legend of Dick and Dom'. He has also published a trilogy of novels (Triskellion; Triskellion: The Burning; Triskellion: The Gathering) with bestselling crime author Mark Billingham under the pseudonym of Will Peterson. Peter lives on the Kent coast with his wife, two children and three dachshunds.

Reviews

[Puings · Rating 5 out of 5]

Keeps up the pace of the other books

A bit of an antihero savage is more Rodney trotter than Bourne or Jack reacher these books fly along. Unique plotting as they tell both sides of the story.Characters reappear with their . back story!

[Bethany Docherty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing i dont know if there is another one after this but the end was unexpected with donnie and eddie becoming allies in the sake of the bosses daughter.