Publish and Be Dead

Tony Saunders grew up in London, trained as an engineer before serving with the RMP in France and Germany. Returning to civvy street, he worked for a number of large engineering companies eventually starting his own successful engineering related business. Around the same time and along with four other families, he upped sticks to help restore an old country mansion in West Sussex where he and his family spent many happy years.Tony and his wife enjoy travelling to new places when they can and have spent much time touring the USA, East to West and North to South. Favorite places... San Antonio, Texas and Sarasota, Florida.An accomplished potter, Tony enjoys making beautiful stoneware pottery that hopefully someone will cherish and use everyday, maybe a fruit bowl, mug or even a cereal bowl.Always an avid reader of hard science fiction, Tony turned to writing and publishing his own works, all of which carry a sense of optimism, inspiration and human decency.Tony lives with his wife and Lottie the dog in deepest Dorset, close to the beautiful Jurassic coast. They have two grown up daughters.

Surely an investigative journalist looking into a simple housing development shouldn't merit threats and rifle shots? Nobody would think so until active members of the community opposing the scheme start being seriously injured or dying in suspicious circumstances.Enter DI Jim Trussell and his sergeant, Jackie Joynton...