Andrew Towning

Born into a military family, Andrew Towning has penned nine novels based around hero character Jake Dillon, a former Army Intelligence Officer. The books have an international flavour with more than a fair share of the action taking place in Dorset and on the Sandbanks Peninsula! First in the series is ‘The Constantine Legacy’ which sees Dillon interwoven with KGB spies and American drug traffickers amid a backdrop of blackmail! The second in the series, ‘Dead Men Don't Bite’ finds Dillon delving into the whereabouts of a Nazi U-boat and takes him to Jersey to clarify the existence of not only gold bullion but also the much-chronicled Spear of Destiny! Enter ‘Shroud of Concealment’ which finds Jake working with the Home Secretary on the delicate matter of fine art stolen from America, gold bullion and hidden pasts that shock and grip in a journey through Dorset, London and India! The Chimera Code is the fourth Jake Dillon crime thriller - high-octane action in the fight against cyber terrorism on a global scale - this novel predicted recent events and is a gripping exposé of the potential danger that we are all in as cyber warfare takes an invisible grip on our security services! Dillon battles between Sandbanks, the Scottish Highlands and Santorini cheating death again and again as his assassin adversaries take their chances from every angle. Traitors and terrorists unleash invisible weapons with only one aim - global meltdown. Powder Diamonds - as you strip back the first engaging layer of the fifth Jake Dillon novel you will find yourself immersed in yet another stratum of dark drug dealings, murder and blackmail on an international scale. The Cutter - the sixth in the series, exposes Dillon to extremes of emotion and endurance in a fight for justice and truth, the bloody picture of beauty and greed that can only be painted by a black conflict diamond. Thrown into a living nightmare of theft, lies and torture by an incestuous web of diamond dealers, each with far more to hide than just their invisible sources and ill-gotten bounty. Tide Runner is the seventh in the series, and in this exciting instalment a contract killer is executed by garrotte, his body thrown into the English Channel from the boat transporting him to the UK. A Guernsey man whose complicity is driven solely to get enough money to send his seriously ill daughter to Switzerland for life saving treatment. A billionaire who disappears into thin air but is held captive at his chateau in the Bretagne area of northern France. An Italian Interpol officer on the trail of corruption and murder who has romantic aspirations for Dillon. From Poole Harbour to the British Channel island of Guernsey. Dillon embarks on what will be one of the most dangerous assignments of his career. He discovers that his targets are no small-time criminals but ruthless men trafficking terrorists, who will stop at nothing to protect a sinister secret and their fanatical fascist conspiracy to overthrow the British Government. When Dead is Dead - the eighth novel in the series follows maverick agent Jake Dillon deployed to Budapest to track down Eastern Europe’s most treacherous and deceptive arms dealers, only to battle his way through duplicity and disappointment to a heart racing trail of weapons of undeniable mass destruction. Deniable Asset is the ninth novel in the series. Jake Dillon is instructed to abandon a water-tight legacy to infiltrate the dark, power-driven and greed-fuelled Brotherhood of Twelve. The prize for the clandestine collective is contrived political uprising, false security and the ultimate control of an African government. Amid arms deals to secure priceless natural resources and the threat to Western politics, Dillon can’t deny the gravity of this assignment. With spies on the inside and revengeful adversaries on the outside, his fate confronts him more than once… Avenging the murder of a close ally, he trusts few, and relies on no one yet briefly his heart rules his head. All to what end? As a deniable Asset - and Dillon knows there is only one way this mission can go, and with a Russian bounty on his head, the odds are against him. But MI5, the CIA and his alter ego all have other ideas! Dillon battles for his life in the desert, in the waves, through squadrons of drones and with his heart… From Venice to the Republic of Chad – this is a very different war, demonstrating the worst of human depravity, through the narcissistic assumption that success and power are given. However, Dillon is on top of his game, with the tools and teams for the job surely he can overcome the ultimate international threat, but how long can he fight it out, only he and his handlers know, yet if they were asked, they would surely deny it…