Agents and Dealers

My latest book is Agents & Dealers, a prequel to The Marketing Code.  It features some of the characters in TMC, such as Pitcairn Brodie and Barton Brady, though it’s very different in many ways.  The protagonist is female and the book starts off at a very high tempo.  The first seven chapters, plus prologue, are attached.  See what you think.  FYI, the back cover blurb reads as follows: 

Love of Customers is the Root of All Evil

A feisty final-year student at the University of Hustler, Abby Maguire is on remedial work placement.  While dressing the shop window of Some Like It Hot, a saucy lingerie boutique, she is attacked by two lapsed paramilitaries, who destroy the store and almost destroy Abby.  With the aid of her placement tutor, Dave Kelley, Abby escapes the psychopathic enforcers only to plunge into a noisome netherworld of arms dealers, money launderers, secret agents, neo-Nazis, paedophile priests, literary forgers and, most horrifying of all, freelance management consultants.

An action-packed prequel to The Marketing Code, Agents & Dealers races from Edinburgh to Nuremberg via Belfast and Dublin.  Spine-chilling and side-splitting by turns, it reveals the whereabouts of the legendary Spear of Destiny, uncovers the equally legendary encounter between Adolf Hitler and W.B. Yeats, exposes a ruthless secret society at the heart of Ireland’s unstoppable Tiger economy and unmasks the blood-soaked background to Dan Brown’s bestselling books, Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code.