Triple-Tap

Gun-shot wounds can damage your health. Two to the body mass, maximum trauma -DOUBLE-TAP Plus one to the head, destroy the brain, shut down nervous systems, chummy down for good - TRIPLE-TAP Ex Detective Chief Inspector 'Sandy' Sanderson may have been gored to death by his own guard dogs, but it was still murder - THE TRAMPS ARE BACK ! The violence of his distant, murky past has returned with vengeance, threatening seemingly unconnected victims - PLAYERS IN A HISTORY BEST NOT TOLD. For Detective Inspector Andy Wallace, a displaced Scotsman with misplaced humour, there are only two possible suspects; Edgar Marshall, one-time mercenary and stoical survivor of an Angolan prison-from-hell. Now employed as a Private Security Contractor in Iraq - KILLING HIS TRADE. 'Mad' Lennie Lester, retired 1960's East End hard-man gangster, enforcer, torturer; formerly convicted, unjustly, for the murder of his old boss, Jack 'Handle' Stein - VENGEANCE WILL BE HIS. As the body count rises, dispatched by high-powered sniper rifle, these unlikely allies unite in a race to wreak pay-back-time and to prise free the 'grisly secrets of gruesome old men' from the Fat American - SECRETS TO DIE FOR. But a lone shootist, The Last Tramp, is still out there somewhere in the dark dangerous streets of a South London sink estate throbbing with racial tension - PROGRAMMED TO KILL THEM BOTH...............