The Profit Motive by David Beckler
Mason &
Sterling are back in a hard-boiled international thriller!
Perfect for fans of Mark Dawson, J. B. Turner, Lee Child and David
Baldacci…
How do you
deal with an implacable foe in an alien land…?
Manchester,
England, and Wenzhou, China, 2001
When firefighter
Adam Sterling arrives at the scene of a horrific car crash, little
does he imagine it will lead him back to his mother’s homeland.
Kate, the woman
he pulls from the wreckage, needs his help. Her father has been left
for dead after a hit-and-run, in Wenzhou, China.
She suspects it
wasn’t an accident and so does Jie Gang, the senior policeman
investigating the case, and whose efforts are obstructed from on
high.
When events
escalate, Kate employs Adam and Byron Mason, Adam’s best friend and
fellow former Royal Marine, to go with her to China.
Catapulted into
an alien environment, and unable to trust anyone, Mason and Sterling
face escalating challenges.
The struggle
becomes personal, and Adam has to confront a ruthless enemy
determined to destroy him and Kate.
THE PROFIT
MOTIVE is the second crime novel in the Mason & Sterling
thriller series: gritty, hard-boiled page-turners with an urban
setting.
I write
fast-paced action thrillers populated with well-rounded characters.
Born in Addis
Ababa in 1960, I spent my first eight years living on an agricultural
college in rural Ethiopia where my love of reading developed. After
dropping out of university I became a firefighter and served 19 years
before leaving to start my own business.
I began writing
in 2010 and use my work experiences to add realism to my fiction.
The Mason and
Sterling series centre on two ex-Royal Marines, Byron who now runs a
security company and Adam who is a firefighter. A strong cast of
characters support my protagonists. Long
Stop Books published Brotherhood, the first novel in the series, in
September 2019 and will be publishing the second, The Profit Motive,
on December 16th 2019.
Brotherhood is set in Manchester and The Profit Motive in Manchester
and Wenzhou, China.
I live in
Manchester, my adopted home since 1984. In my spare time I try to
keep fit—an increasingly difficult undertaking—listen to music,
socialise and feed my voracious book habit.
