A soldier-of-fortune’s well-earned vacation in the Maritime City of Liverpool goes sour when he learns that his naïve teenage daughter is ensnared by the city’s lowlife. It is an epic fail on the part of villains whose trade is narcotics, violence and human flash.

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.

After a chance meeting and date with Charlotte Austin his ex-fiancé whom earlier in life he had abandoned when she was pregnant, McLeod now learns that he is father to a beautiful but innocent daughter who shares his traits.

However, in search of a father figure and enticed by the fiendish and deceitful Casey Rivers, an itinerant pub singer, Sally has left her safe middle-class home.

Fraser McLeod learns from the distressed   Charlotte that his daughter’s trail has gone cold. The action heats up when the unforgiving Fraser MacLeod fades into the obscure underworld of the low-life community.

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 single lead and an insatiable thirst for a messy and vengeful justice.

From the first page to the last, this gripping account of the mercenary’s cold-blooded quest for justice and the safe return of his errant daughter keeps the reader from his or her bed.

You will meet the most amazing characters both good and evil; some you will warm to, laugh and love with. Others will leave you cold before the vengeful dog of war leaves his quarry cold enough for the slab in the morgue. His victims are not a pretty sight.

Readers who love gut-wrenching twists and turns have it all in Retribution. Described as ‘the sensational white knuckle reading ride of the century’ you will share terror and despair as after being betrayed Sally repeatedly attempts to flee from her captors.

Do you think the Brian Garfield novel and movie Death Wish was gripping? Perhaps like me, you were enthralled by The Wild Geese novel and the movie by Daniel Carney was unbeatable. Think again. Retribution by Michael Walsh has both thrillers beaten. You have seen or read nothing until you get hold of a copy of Retribution.

Michael Walsh is the writer’s award-winning author of over 70 book titles. In the 1990s he began work on his epic novel, a task that has taken 30 years to complete.

The world traveller and Africa expert knew the plot had to be believable. There was only one way to achieve this; to write a novel that draws on his real-life experiences. In many respects, the book is painfully biographical. The reader will feel it as he or she turns the pages.

WHAT READERS SAY

‘An excellent thriller written in the tense style of a John Le Carre novel’ ~ Brian Smyth.

‘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 is a regular television, radio and newspaper personality. ​This Liverpool-based city-vigilante thriller is more gripping than Death Wish by the award-winning novelist. ‘Retribution is the greatest movie never made’ ~ William Housman. ‘An excellent thriller written in the tense style of a John Le Carre spymaster novel’ ~ Brian Smyth. 

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