Land Of The Cold
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Last published Tue, Feb 21, 2012
After five years of running from a crushing past experience, 24 year old Aaron Clarke returns to his home town of a dark and not too distant future London.
He is quickly thrust into an inevitable life of crime alongside his friends and family. A lot has changed: The Soho Syndicate has been born, a rag tag band of opportunists lead by his older brother Salem, who has succeeded leadership from their ruthless father, and taken it to new heights of organised crime and perverse vigalantism.
Aaron is thrown headlong into a world of violence, chaos and betrayal, and must fight to keep his sanity intact. As well as the lives of those around him and to keep his ever slipping grip on the life he knew before.
The events of the novel will charter Aaron's journey into the nightmarish underworld of a city tearing itself apart with gang violence, corruption and international espionage.
Does taking matters into your own hands justify the acts you commit to accomplish your goals? Is winning your survival above all else worth losing everything you hold dear?
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