The Fragile Cage

A brand new series from CWA award-winning author, Scott Hunter

April 1968. Mild, easygoing Detective Constable Cameron Kyle is shot at a bungled stakeout.

He survives, but the medics warn that the bullet fragment lodged in his brain is likely to affect his personality.

He may experience depression, mild psychosis, a tendency towards aggression … worse still, the fragment could kill him at any moment. Kyle's not bothered. His closest friend was killed in the stakeout. His fiancée has left him.

Life, death, whatever. Bring it on. What's the point?

But when a notorious crime lord kidnaps his ex-fiancée in a daring prison break and a murdered senior detective is found in his apartment, Kyle is prompted to abandon any notion of convalescence and embark on a manhunt which leads to an explosive confrontation with an even deadlier antagonist, the elusive criminal mastermind known only by his pseudonym, the Italian.

Under suspicion, Kyle must evade the pursuing police as he follows a series of baffling clues to track down the perpetrators.

But he has a distinct advantage: he has nothing to lose, and he couldn't care less who knows it.

For fans of JM Dalgliesh, Lee Child, Mark Dawson, and David Baldacci, The Fragile Cage is a high-octane thriller packed with relentless action, black humor and edge-of-your-seat excitement.

★★★★★ ‘A thriller from start to finish - highly recommended.’