The Killing Room

The Killing Room.
By
John Madderson

Jack Hammond is a trouble shooter for a branch of the government called the Diplomatic Investigation Unit. The unit works independent of the Diplomatic Protection Service and Scotland Yard, and is responsible for the investigation of politicians suspected of wrong doings where upon Hammond is licensed to correct the situation.
Hammond is called to the residence of the British Ambassador to Honduras Sir James Cartwright where his wife Lady Dianna Scott Cartwright has been murdered.
Hammond quickly realises that her death is similar to others he had read about in the papers but as they did not involve, or were connected to any politicians, their deaths did not call for his attention.
The lady was shot in the head and there’s evidence that she had been bound to some kind of apparatus during or before her death.
During his investigation, Hammond stumbles onto a, “snuff film,” industry ran by two senior politicians and sets out to investigate further and after a while he connects the death of the lady to the bodies of gay men found in the River Thames, who had been murdered in the same method of death.
Soon the two politicians realise Hammond is on their trail and employ an IRA assassin called Dominic Epson to kill him. Hammond travels to Newcastle to seek further evidence but comes against a crooked police sergeant who arranges a drug dealer to kill him; however the drug dealer fails and Hammond is forced to kill him in a cemetery, and he returns to London.
Undeterred, the two politicians continue in their determination to have Hammond killed and soon a battle of wits develop between Epson and Hammond as each men struggles to kill the other.
After a while, Hammond gains the upper hand and although Epson escapes, the two politicians do not. Hammond tracks them to America where he kills them and disposes of their bodies off the coast of Florida.
Epson escapes back to Ireland, but Hammond knows that they will meet up again some day.