As the 19th century draws to a close America is at war – a circulation war! In New York the two great leaders of the Yellow Press, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, have gone head to head and nothing sells papers like a real war. Such is the power of the press that they get one. American victory over Spain brings its prizes: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. But in the Philippines a rebel army is already fighting for independence, but the Land of the Free doesn't want to grant them their wish ...Fourth in James Green's successful Agents of Independence series, tracing the development of the American Secret Service.

Meet Jimmy Costello. Quiet, respectable, God-fearing family man? Or thuggish street-fighter with a past full of dark secrets? Perhaps the answer is somewhere in between ... After Jimmy's wife dies the conflict inside him is too much and the violent assault he commits on a gangster forces him to leave London and his job with the police and disappear for a while. Now he's back, on what you might call a divine mission ... and to settle a few old scores too. Through the eyes of his hard-boiled ex-cop, James Green takes us on a thrilling journey from 1960s Kilburn, through war-torn 1970s Africa to the modern streets of a London that seems to have cleaned up its act ... until you scratch the surface.

Jimmy Costello has lived his life on both sides of the law, but he knows absolutely nothing about art. When a stolen art scandal envelopes the Catholic Church in Vancouver his boss in Rome sends him to clear it up. His contact: a religious sister who runs an outreach to the gay and transgender community. Jimmy works hard but he's tired, and fears he's losing his touch. There's only one way to unravel this Gordian knot. Someone has to cut it.

Corrupt copper and bad Catholic Jimmy Costello is back, and he's studying to be a priest in Rome. But his old life refuses to stay buried... When a visiting archbishop dies in suspicious circumstances the Kilburn hard man is asked to drop his religious studies and help local police investigate. Together with his partner Inspector Ricci, Jimmy follows a twisting trail of evidence from the streets of the Holy City to Glasgow and back, where they uncover a sinister plot more evil than they had ever imagined.

Boston, 1802, Lawyer Macleod is a man full of hate, a dangerous man. When a newly arrived young lawyer is mad enough to insult him, the consequences spin out of control and Macleod is caught up in a web of danger and intrigue.  With England at war with France, some powerful Americans feel that theUSA’s best chance of remaining independent is to throw in their lot withFrance– even if it means accepting a French king – for a while. To counter their plot, Macleod is sent toNew Orleans, where he meets Marie, wife of Etienne de Valois, aristocrat and fop, and through her learns a terrible secret.  Together, unable to trust anyone, they race to uncover the traitors at the heart of the American Government. James Green uses fictional characters to illuminate the real events that lead to the birth of the American Intelligence Services and culminated in the extraordinary Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the...

Charlie Bronski, US Air Force security expert turned successful cookery writer, now lives the quiet life with his wife beside the sea in Denmark. So why would anyone plant a bomb under his car? Recognising it as a professional job, Charlie asks for help from the people who set him up in his new life. They want a favour in return: for him to kill a middle-aged man, a trainee priest who caused them some problems – surely an easy task for someone with Charlie's military training. But that man is ex-copper, ex-criminal, Jimmy Costello, a man with powerful friends – and powerful enemies. Will Charlie's past catch up with him before he catches up with Jimmy – and will Jimmy make it through alive? The third in James Green's critically acclaimed series featuring his hardboiled former London detective.

Ex-copper and 'fixer' for the Catholic Church Jimmy Costello is sent to Spain to investigate when a senior cleric is accused of being part of ETA, the armed Basque separatist movement. Given his usual missions, he's not entirely surprised when he finds himself implicated in a murder as soon as he lands in Santander, and remains calm as the evidence seems to point to an old gangland contact who has set himself up as a crime writer – but do old dogs really learn new tricks? Despite the ongoing attentions of the local police, Jimmy's still not shaken – even when the bodies start to mount up – until the trail leads him to some surprising remainders of his violent London past ...

'Fixer' for the Vatican Jimmy Costello always liked Paris, but never got the chance to spend much time there. Now his boss in Rome wants him to go back. It's a simple job: find the missing owner of a piece of valuable property. But Jimmy's not the only one looking.  What is he looking for and who else wants it so badly? No one seems to have the answers. This time Jimmy is on his own.

A Deadly Development introduces Sergeant Tom Burke of the Kansas City Murder Squad. Burke is a third generation member of the Kansas City Police Department.Sergeant Burke is teamed with Detective Jack Thurber - a crass, but dogged investigator that Burke puts up with. The two are called to Kansas City's City Hall where a gruesome murder has taken place.Mayoral Aide John Vithous was bludgeoned to death while typing emails late in the night. His murder shocks Kansas City and there is immense pressure on Burke and Thurber to solve the case - and fast.Burke must come up to speed quickly on Kansas City politics, development law and the pernicious way that John Vithous operated. He also has to navigate through the last steps of his divorce and complex family relationships.A Deadly Development is a roller coaster thriller filled with twists, lies and intrigues.