RETRIBUTION – MICHAEL WALSH: Set in Liverpool the novel provides a gripping account of an ex-mercenary turned international arms dealer who on returning to his roots discovers that his adolescent daughter has been enticed into a lifestyle that can only end up with her as a drug-dependent sex worker.

In this case, the sex traffickers picked on the wrong girl or rather the girl with the wrong father. The information on the book’s back cover offers a pithy summing up of a saga that has the reader flipping the pages way past the stroke of midnight.

A purchaser in a review says it all: ‘I was immediately intrigued. This sense of intrigue only increased when I learned that the novel’s hero was an ex-mercenary who had served in some of Africa’s most notorious hotspots. It is well known that the author has a vast wealth of experience in those places.’

Retribution is a Get Carter-style thriller, with the famous city as the setting in which scores are settled. Carter, in this case, is grizzled ex-mercenary Fraser McLeod who gives the impression of having seen pretty much all there is to see in his long and action-packed career.

During the soldier of fortune’s break in the Maritime City, he meets by chance his earlier betrayed ex-fiancé Charlotte. The plot thickens as subsequently, his ex-lover reveals that their rebellious teenage daughter has been enticed into the seedy lowlife community of the maritime city.

A series of melancholic flashbacks help to set the scene for the mercenary’s return to Liverpool. Fraser McLeod is a veteran of the 1960s Congo Crisis and Simba Rebellions. When you add the toxic Rhodesian Bush Wars you’re left with a lethal humanoid, a cunning and resourceful predator.

Those, whose trade is debt and death, sex and drugs know how to avoid the intrusive. But they are no match for a prowling marauder for whom death is no more to be feared than is birth. The mercenary turned arms dealer has a lead and an insatiable thirst for messy and vengeful justice. The story is based on real-life experience.

‘Michael Walsh never disappoints, and this exciting page-turning killer thriller was no exception. I didn’t have to get into it at all. I succumbed at the first page and surrendered myself to reading the novel until its finish.’

Another reviewer writes: ‘An excellent thriller written in the tense style of a John Le Carre novel’.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAY: MICHAEL WALSH has the gift of engaging with the reader and drawing the reader into the story to become part of it. The writing reputation of the award-winning media columnist has earned him accolades from Britain’s most revered literati, theatre, editorial and business communities.

WHAT READERS SAY: ‘Retribution is the greatest movie never made’ ~ William Housman. 

‘A truly great and gripping story.’ ~ Anthony Douglas. 

‘A very exciting and heart-warming story about an ex-mercenary looking for his lost daughter who was being forced into prostitution.’ ~ Walter Potter.

RETRIBUTION Michael Walsh. A Liverpool-based city-vigilante thriller is more gripping than Death Wish. ‘A spellbinding true-life story based on the author’s experiences. A page-turning drama about a pitiless mercenary seeking his teen daughter tricked into prostitution.

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