Game on: A Sunday sample from Gray Justice

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By Alan McDermott

Prologue

21 January 2010

Stuart Boyle held the Subaru Impreza at a steady thirty miles per hour as he headed towards the town centre. A red traffic light halted his progress, and he gazed around at the people in the cars, on the buses, walking the streets, most of them heading to work.

He couldn’t understand the appeal of slaving eight hours a day, doing someone else’s bidding for just a couple of hundred pounds a week. In comparison, he was sitting in a nice motor that took just three minutes to steal and would earn him an easy five hundred quid by the end of the day. The fact that he regularly got caught didn’t bother him; it was an occupational risk he was willing to take. Capture was simply an inconvenience, another few hours spent in a cell when he could be out casing his next hit.

No, as things stood, work wasn’t for him. He was twenty, with at least another fifty years ahead of him. No way was he spending all that time in an office or factory.

He caressed the wheel of the Subaru he had stolen the night before, wishing he could keep it a bit longer, but he’d already told Sammy Christodoulou that he had it. Sammy wanted it straight away, and you didn’t piss around with Sammy. Best to hand it over, take the cash and see what tomorrow brings. Maybe he’d keep the next one to himself for a few days.

‘See what other music they got,’ he ordered Martin Kyle, who was sitting in the passenger seat.

In the back, Tim Garbutt nodded his head to the current beat and voiced his displeasure when the disc was changed.

‘Aww, I was listening to that.’

‘Stop bleating, Timmy,’ Kyle said, switching the CD for something with a bit more drum and bass. ‘My gran wouldn’t even listen to that crap.’

Boyle laughed, but his eyes were on the black Ford coming towards them. The thick aerial first caught his attention, and as it neared, he saw the white shirts and black epaulettes of the occupants that identified them as police in an unmarked car. The Ford passed them, and in his rear-view mirror he watched it continue for another hundred yards before the blue lights illuminated and it performed a U-turn.

Game on.

Gray Justice: Tom Gray Saga, Book 1

When ex-soldier Tom Gray loses his wife and child to a career criminal, it seems life can’t get much worse. But when the killer is let off with time served on remand, Gray knows there is something fundamentally wrong with the justice system. Engaging the help of his ex-SAS buddies, he kidnaps five repeat offenders and asks the public to vote on their fate: Should they be allowed to continue their criminal ways with inadequate punishment, or has Britain had enough?

His website attracts a worldwide audience and, although the authorities know where he is, they are powerless to stop him.

Can Gray carry out his audacious plan? Will Andrew Harvey and his fellow MI5 operatives find a way to stop him?

Gray Justice, the first book in the Tom Gray series, is more than a simple tale of revenge: it’s a rollercoaster ride with an ending you’ll never forget.

This is the second edition of Gray Justice, edited by The Written Word.

Get it from the author’s website or Amazon.

About Alan McDermott

When I pick up a book I want it to keep me gripped from start to finish and be something I can relate to. I couldn’t see myself delivering that with a science-fiction or romance novel. I could try, but I know I would soon get bored with it. If the subject matter doesn’t interest me, I can hardly expect my readers to become engrossed. I think it is important that you write about what you love.

Alan McDermott is a husband, father to beautiful twin girls, and a full-time author. Alan lives in the south of England, and in 2014 he swapped writing critical application for the NHS to penning thrillers that have gone on to sell over a million copies. His debut novel, Gray Justice, was well received and earned him membership of Independent Authors International. That book launched in July 2011, and by the time he’d written the follow-ups, Gray Resurrection and Gray Redemption, it had attracted the attention of a major publisher.

Alan signed with Thomas & Mercer in 2013 and has now written six novels in the Tom Gray series, plus a prequel, Gray Genesis. A spinoff called Trojan was shortlisted for ITW Best E-book Original Novel award 2018.

Alan also has four books in the Eva Driscoll thriller series: Run and Hide; Seek and Destroy ,Fight to Survive and When Death Strikes.

Motive is Alan’s first venture into the British crime scene, which he followed with his first U.S.-set crime thriller, Fifteen Times a Killer. Next up will be a new series with new characters, set in Europe.