Mark Dawson

Mark Dawson’s Group Fifteen Files. Quick, lightning-paced action from the first minute to the last....

Four murders. Two detectives. One mystifying crime. On Christmas Eve, DCI Mackenzie Jones is called to a shooting at a remote farmhouse. Ralph Mallender believes his father lies dead inside. When three more bodies are discovered, it's clear a festive family gathering has turned into a gruesome...

John Milton is the man the government calls when they want a problem to go away . . . but what happens when he's the one who needs to disappear? After a botched job leaves a bloody trail, government assassin John Milton does the one thing he's never done before: he hides. Disappearing into...

A breathtaking, twisty adventure, A Place to Bury Strangers is the second Atticus Priest mystery. A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up there. She contacts disgraced ex-detective...

They call him 'Scorpion'. No-one knows his real name, and the only people who have seen his face are dead....

Deep in the Kentucky hills, justice is still dealt from the end of a rope. When John Milton stumbles into a small town plagued by scams, secrets, and a brutal criminal family, he plans to keep his head down. But after a deadly ambush leaves him tied up and dragged into the Appalachians, Milton...

Private investigator Atticus Priest is asked to investigate after a man falls to his death from the tower of Salisbury Cathedral. But when a video is sent to the local newspaper showing the deceased man engaging in a compromising act with a minor, Atticus realizes that there's much more to this...

An assassin haunted by his past. Two young refugees out of their depth and in need of his special talents. John Milton is no stranger to the world's seedy underbelly....

John Milton's life is about to change. The former government assassin follows a lead to Manila that he hopes will transform everything. But things didn't go to plan....

When North Korean hit men attack a seeming innocent on the streets of London, Duffy is called back to the fold....

Set in divided Berlin at a pivotal moment in history, and soaked in '80s nostalgia, The Vault is a thrilling adventure set in Mark Dawson’s million-selling Group Fifteen world....

John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn't want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing...

Nine months ago, Beatrix Rose had her family brutally taken from her. Now all that matters is getting her daughter back. And Beatrix is no ordinary mother - she’s a skilled assassin who will do whatever it takes to find her child....

Isabella Rose, the Angel, is used to surprises, but being abducted is an unwelcome novelty. She's relying on Michael Pope, the head of the top-secret Group Fifteen, to get her back. When ISIS get involved, the situation becomes even bleaker. Isabella's abductors are in turn abducted, and she...

John Milton est l’homme que le gouvernement appelle quand il veut supprimer un problème... mais que se passe-t-il quand c’est lui-même qui doit disparaître ? Après un boulot bâclé qui a laissé une traînée sanglante derrière lui, le tueur à gages John Milton fait ce qu’il n’a...

In a world where loyalty is fleeting and alliances are temporary, John Milton is on a mission that will bring him face-to-face with enemies old and new. When his friend, Alex Hicks, finds himself pursued by mysterious adversaries, the two men are thrust back into the web of international...

Private investigator Atticus Priest is employed by a disgruntled ex-husband to dig up dirt on his estranged wife. But when she goes missing after swimming in the River Avon, Atticus uncovers a conspiracy between five lifelong friends that goes back years. The friends did something when they were...

Two assassins. One deadly reckoning. John Milton thought he'd buried his past. But when Avi Bachman—an ex-Mossad killer and the most dangerous man Milton has ever known—escapes from a brutal Louisiana prison, vengeance brings them back on a collision course. As Bachman hunts the man he...

Two men out for revenge. But only one can win. When an inmate is found unresponsive in his high security cell at Belmarsh prison, he's rushed to hospital for treatment. The prisoner is human trafficker and international fixer Tristan Huxley, a man a lot of people have good reason to want dead...

John Milton has a violent past. He doesn't go looking for trouble, but trouble is always looking for him. For years Milton has travelled the world as John Smith, making friends and enemies in equal measure. Now his ex-employer, the covert agency Group Fifteen, is on his tail. It's time to find...