Manchester: an injured survivor from a motorway pile-up flees the scene, leaving behind evidence that a terror attack is being planned…
Jon Spicer, newly trained as a Specialist Firearms Officer, has joined Manchester police’s Counter Terrorism Unit. Thrown out of his previous department and demoted to Detective Constable, he is being kept in the force only because he’ll take on the most dangerous of jobs.
Iona Khan is struggling to find respect and recognition in the male-dominated Counter Terrorism Unit. Her mind might be sharp, but many of her colleagues value physical strength above anything else.
As the investigation quickly snowballs, Spicer and Khan are thrown together. The two officers must learn to trust each other – and fast. Because in this chase, any wrong move could be your last.
After what happens in Sleeping Dogs, I couldn’t see any way for Jon to stay in the Major Incident Team. So what could I line up next for him? Which other parts of the police are routinely high in risk and big on danger?
Increasingly, I’ve seen the scope for plots related to terrorism. Ones that explore interesting areas beyond the simplistic ‘Evil Individual Goes On Rampage With A Gun’ scenario.
Death Games is, first and foremost, a thriller. In the aftermath of a motorway pile-up, traffic police stumble across evidence an atrocity is being planned. A passenger, despite being seriously injured, flees the scene.
Jon Spicer, newly trained as a Specialist Firearms Officer, is part of the team asked to find him. So I needed good information on what he’d be expected to do at the sharp end of a Counter Terrorism Unit operation.
I arranged a few pub-meetings with a contact in the force. And the information he gave me was, from a crime-writer’s perspective, gold dust…