Good Cop Bad Cop: Hero or criminal mastermind? A gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller

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Dr Ralph Teller is in his 70s, MS has confined him to a wheelchair, but grief has driven him to investigate the night of his wife’s death. She was one of the victims of the siege. Teller has painstakingly collated information, interviewed witnesses and reconstructed the peripheral lives of those involved, finally arriving at a showdown with Sketty, the lynchpin of the whole affair. Faced with the evidence Sketty is forced to open up but how many layers of obfuscation, lying and self-justification will be admit to. Will he really come clean. Sketty isn’t the man everyone thinks he is but just how dirty is he? Now in Manila, his target is a youthful woman who has made some terrible decisions, and ruthless foes. Devastated by the vicious nature of the killing, will Milne avoid being captured for his own crimes while also solve a murder so brutal? Chris Sketty has been transferred to a new unit, not entirely of his own choosing, and to make matters worse he is undercover. He would be considered a rat, if his colleagues discovered he was spying on one of their own. Sketty has been tasked with infiltrating a British terrorist organisation, that also includes members of the police, and he needs to befriend one of these and be invited into the organisation. He has to get close to DS Cleaver who is thought to be a member of the terrorist organisation.

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What follows is Sketty's true account of the events which led to that fateful night that changed everything. Or are they? Then you receive a phone call, and the person on the other end tells you to play the DVD machine in the room. You are enjoying a hike with three of your friends in the Scottish highlands when you encounter a mysterious girl. Ex-DC Chris Sketty is meeting Dr Ralph Teller who whilst describing as a hero following the terrible events at Villa Amalfi, he is also regarding him with malevolence. However, the reason for the meeting predates this by fifteen years when Chris is sent undercover by SO15 (Counter Terrorism) to try to get information on a shadowy faceless figure known as Kalian Roman. He’s placed in DI Devon Andrews Gang Intelligence Unit, his target is DS Barry Cleaver - does he have a connection to Roman? Only time will tell. Chris tells most of his story with illuminating interjections by Teller, all we have to do is work out, is Chris a good cop or a bad cop??A few days prior, an anonymous client hired him to facilitate for the escape of alleged serial killer, Andrew Kent, while he’s on transit between prisons. Teller has paid me the princely sum of a thousand pounds to come out to his mansion in the Oxfordshire countryside and talk to him, which is actually less than the going rate. Right now, everyone who’s anyone wants to interview me, and I’m a man in demand.

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Was Chris Sketty good or bad? We can only judge his version of the story which was, under duress, vividly told to Doctor Ralph Teller. I was totally immersed in this book - intriguing, gritty and a rollercoaster of a read which was gripping and had me changing my mind throughout the narrative about whether this complex, flawed and unreliable man was a hero or a heartless calculating villain. To top it all the author then treats us to an absolutely brilliant ending which totally blindsided me. I struggled to get through this book and almost left it unfinished multiple times, but it was gifted to me, so I struggled on. I wasn't going to leave a review, but this book currently averages 4.13 stars, and I feel like bringing it down a little out of spite. DI John Gallan and DS Tina Boyd are looking into the murder of their informer, Slim Robbie O'Brien. Right up until the end the reader is taken on a rollercoaster of opinions as to whether Sketty is Good or Bad. I kept changing my mind the whole time as the body count around him kept rising.Vengeful and deadly, she is desperate to find and eliminate the person before she suffers the same fate. Things however go terribly wrong when three people end up losing their lives—two of whom are Iversson’s colleagues. Elena Serenko, having been recently engaged, decides to resign from her job and begin a fresh chapter in Australia.