The clock is ticking on Erasmus Jones’ deadliest case yet…
Jaded lawyer Erasmus Jones has been hired to protect the footballing world’s latest protégé – and while it’s a job he may not like, he can’t refuse. Thrust into the hedonistic world of the football elite, Erasmus discovers a sinister underbelly to the beautiful game, riddled with corruption, deceit… and murder.
It’s his most high-profile case yet… and it should be enough. But when the only woman he has ever loved appears, begging for his help, Erasmus finds himself caught between two deadly cases: and his professional instincts are tested more than ever before.
With mere seconds on the clock, Erasmus must make a choice: put his client’s life on the line, or turn his back on his past. Because there can only be one winner... and the penalty could be death.
The Silent Pool
Sudden Death
Phil Kurthausen
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Phil Kurthausen grew up in Merseyside where he dreamt of being a novelist but ended up working as a lawyer. He has travelled the world working as a flower salesman, a light bulb repair technician and, though scared of heights, painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Ken Dodd once put him in a headlock for being annoying.
He has had work broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra, published some short stories and his novel The Killing Pool won the Thriller Round in the Harper Collins People’s Novelist Competition broadcast on ITV in November 2011 and appeared in the final. It was later shortlisted for the Dundee International Literary Prize in 2012.
He lives in Chester.
‘Totally un-putdownable. Quite Outstanding’ Jeffrey Archer
‘This pulls you in at 100 mph. [The] sense of place is terrific. A great central character. I love Erasmus Jones’ Mark Billingham
‘Wonderfully written, tightly written, Erasmus Jones is like Jack Reacher. Wonderful’ Cathy Kelly
‘I read ahead of myself. Just cracking. Macabre, brilliant’ Penny Smith
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Contents
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six