Paradise

I'm around half way through my next novel - a crime fiction story called Paradise. Here's a brief synopsis of the story.

If you presumed that the notorious Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers just faded into history with the Union of the Crowns in 1603, think again.

These men of extreme violence, who had spent over two hundred years perfecting the art while indulging in blood feuds and giving words such as blackmail and bereave to the English language, simply disappeared underground.

And they haven’t been heard of again. Until now.

When a petty criminal is arrested on a drugs charge in Las Vegas and asks to see FBI agent Jack Bell, everyone simply assumes that he is looking for some bargaining leverage to get his sentence reduced. Maybe turn witness and go into the protection program.

But the story that this small time crook has to say takes Bell on a journey out of the States and into the rural border heartlands as he attempts to unravel the ties of the world’s supposed oldest secret criminal organisation – the mythical Order of the Broken Ram.