The Blue Ring is a criminal cartel making millions out of drugs and prostitutionCreasy - loner, ex-mercenary has a personal reason for wanting their deadly activities stopped.

The latest Creasy adventure takes our hero to Vietnam and Cambodia, ostensibly on a mission to rescue a US serviceman taken prisoner twenty-six years earlier during the Vietnam war. In reality, however, the mission is a decoy organised by a sadistic Eurasain woman, Connie Crum, who is a high-ranking officer of the Khmer Rouge. She has long harboured a grudge against Creasy who was responsible for the death of her father. A cat and mouse game between the two principles ensues, as each tries to out guess the other, resulting in a climactic shoot-out in a heavily mined and guarded Buddhist temple hidden in the Cambodian jungle.About the AuthorA. J. Quinnell is the pseudonym of a writer who wishes to remain anonymous. He has written many bestselling novels, including several featuring the charismatic hero, Creasy.

Creasy thought he had nothing left to lose. He was wrong.An American soldier of fortune far from home -- alcoholic, burnt out, and broken down -- Creasy has accepted a job as a bodyguard just for something to do. An emotionally dead, one-time warrior, he knows that nothing can pierce the hard shell he's built around himself -- until the little girl he's been hired to protect somehow breaks through. But having something to care about again in making Creasy vulnerable. And when the unthinkable occurs, a man on fire won't just burn ... he'll explode.About the AuthorA.J. Quinnell is a pseudonym. The author prefers the anonymity for reasons readers of Man on Fire will understand.

In Zimbabwe a young American woman is shot dead by a sniper at her camp on the bank of the Zambezi River. In Hong Kong, Lucy Kwok, a Chinese air hostess, returns from Tokyo to find her father, mother and brother have been brutally murdered. The killings are linked - to Africa.Ex-mercenary Creasy is hired to find the American woman's killers, and when Lucy Kwok discovers that he truth behind her family's death also lies in Zimbabwe, a fateful meeting is set in motion.Ranging from the African bush to the backstreets of Hong Kong, Black Horn is a towering story of violence, vengeance and a love born of danger.

In Man on Fire, A. J. Quinnell introduced Creasy, veteran and mercenary. In The Perfect Kill, Creasy returns.Three days before Christmas in 1988, a bomb blew Pan Am 103 out of the sky over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all passengers and crew.The wife and four-year-old daughter of Creasy were amongst the passengers. Seeking his personal vengeance, Creasy finds the backup of power — a US Senator, whose wife also died on Pan Am 103; and of youth — an eighteen-year-old orphan called Michael. Ruthlessly and relentlessly, Creasy trains Michael into becoming a man in his own image. Trains him ... for the perfect kill.'Intricate planning ... imaginative, well written'MARTHA GELLHORN, WEEKEND TELEGRAPH‘I am completely won over by Quinnell’s imaginative thriller because the writing is so real and true’.PETER MULLEN, DAILY MAILAbout the AuthorA. J. Quinnell is the pseudonym of a writer who wishes to remain anonymous. He has written many bestselling novels, including several featuring the charismatic hero, Creasy.

Scott Quinnell's book is called The Hardest Test. It is the story of how he became a successful rugby player, in spite of having to fight against learning difficulties at school. When he retired in 2005 he continued his battle with dyslexia in order to change both his and his children's lives for ever. Rugby player Scott Quinnell played for the Llanelli Scarlets and played for his country, Wales, fifty-two times. He was also a British lion. He reached the very top of his sport before he retired in 2005. He is now one of the most recognisable faces in world rugby.