Graham Hurley

With local democracy undermined at every turn, anger at political impotence imposed by Westminster creates a dangerous hunger for change. Backed by a Singapore billionaire, an English city port seeks to become Europe's newest financially-independent city-state.

Features anti-personnel mines, Africa, and the journey one woman makes to find the person responsible for the death of her son in Angola. This book is both an examination of what bereavement means to one character and an indictment of the arms trade.

The government is running scared. The Sabbathman is killing the people who have gained the most from their policies. His message is clear: "You have ruined this country. None of you are safe". As the public warm to the killer, MI5 are called in to stop him.

A blend of horror, the supernatural, and jazz. David Easter wakes up on a New Orleans streetcar with a suitcase full of clothes, some of them bloodstained. The last thing he remembers was working at a record shop in South London - where he also recalls falling in love with a girl from New Orleans.

Keogh, an investigative journalist, stumbles on the story that the Gulf War may have been fought to a pre-arranged script. When he starts asking questions the security forces take notice and an MI5 officer, Sarah, is sent to befriend him and find out what he knows.

On 2nd August 1990, Iraqi tanks rolled into Kuwait City. The invasion provoked international condemnation and the assembly of the largest task force since D-Day. Yet for two months the huge allied army did nothing. This novel looks at these months and what happened back in New York.

It is April 1982. The eyes of the world watch Portsmouth harbour as the largest naval task force ever assembled in post-war Britain sets sail for the South Atlantic. Little do they realise that behind its majestic progress lies a desperate struggle between life and death.

After the death of Gorbachev, the hardliners are once again in control at the Kremlin. When a crippled American nuclear submarine surfaces dangerously close to the Russian territorial waters and begins to drift towards them, the world prepares itself for nuclear conflict.

The discovery of a headless corpse on the rocks below cliffs on the Isle of Wight is only the beginning of a journey for DI Joe Faraday to the centre of the grim trade in human cargo from the crippled societies of the Balkans. From cheap labour to prostitution, Portsmouth, like every other city in the UK is home to untold human misery; a black economy built on illegal immigration. Joe Faraday is determined to find the real criminals that lie behind the tabloid hysteria. Detective Constable Winter on the other hand is determinded only to find a way out of the disciplinary action that threatens his entire career. A burgeoning relationship with a young prostitute isn't exactly helping his cause. Graham Hurley has written another vivid novel of all too human policeman struggling against an overwhelming tide of crime. This is crime writing with a vivid edge of documentary realism.

Faraday is thrown into the violent legacy of the Falklands War.

"Angels Passing" is a Dickensian trawl through the depths of life in Portsmouth. With a compactly labyrinthine plot, uniquely human policemen, a grotesque rogues gallery of squalid villains and a shadowy child as anti-hero - it's a breathtaking and harrowing ride. Devoted to the events of just one week, and focused around two investigations - the hunt for a ten year old boy, who may be linked to the death of a teenage girl and a murder enquiry prompted by the discovery of the body of a small time crook on wasteland north of the city - "Angels Passing" takes us to the core of complex relationships, serves as a grimly recognisable post-mortem on a society that is coming apart at the seams. This is at once an unremittingly realistic fast moving crime thriller and a bleakly moving novel about the price children are paying for a society that is in freefall.

A unique insider's account of how the world's best combat aircraft, best pilots, international big business and 200,000 people are bought together for the world's biggest military airshow. Graham Hurley will be the performance director for the 1998 Fairford International Air Tattoo in July 1998. For the 2 days of the show, he will be responsible for choreographing and coordinating the air displays that are the centrepiece of the event, including a simultaneous fly-past of aircraft from the 80 year history of the Royal Air Force and an aerobatic display by the Red Arrows. A key figure both during the weekend and the 8 month planning period running up to it.