Books by Barry Faulkner

In Burning Ambition a burnt-out prison van with three pre-murdered bodies inside doesn't make sense. Especially as one of the bodies wasn't a prisoner and should not even be there. Why would these three be killed and what has it to do with the final signature heist being put together by an Organised Crime boss to rob the Royal Mint in Wales? In Takeaway Terror delivery boys on scooters working for a reputable meal delivery service are being targetted and mown down by a large van. Palmer thinks this has something to do with two organised crime gangs who are about to go to war for the lucrative London West End drugs trade. When an old adversary with skills in bomb-making joins one gang Palmer must act and act fast. Will anybody be left standing once the bullets fly, including Palmer?

Ministry of Murder. Suspicion is raised when three bodies turn up in the Thames over a period of months and all three were employed at the Ministry of Health in the Drug Procurement department. Palmer's team take a look with a forensic accountant and discover things are not how they should be. The money trail leads higher up to Senior Civil Servants and an MP. Family liasons with European Organised crime come to light as the body count grows and people panic.The Bodybuilder. The Pathology Lab calls in Palmer when two bodies with limbs missing turn up. The worrying part is that the limbs have been expertly amputated, why? The third body sets a pattern that can only mean that there is a serial killer on the loose with surgical expertise who is building a body. Who would do such a thing and for what reason. Another DCS Palmer fast moving thriller that never lets the pace cool down.

An in-depth look at the major London criminals, their gangs, their robberies and murders from the 1930s to the present day. Starting with the Messina Brothers in the 1930s who introduced people trafficking and major prostitution to the Capital through to the Hatton Garden Heist and the current crop of gangs. On the way through we visit all the major heists including Brinks Mat, Great Train Robbery, Baker Street bank Robbery, Knightsbridge Safe Deposit robbery and many more and take a look at the masterminds who planned them and carried them out and what happened afterwards. When millions of pounds are involved loyalties are broken and bodies turn up. We look at the Krays, the Richardsons, John Palmer, McVitie, Cornell, Fraser, Reynolds, Biggs and the other 'names' with much new information. Barry Faulkner is the youngest of an extended family of South London villains operating in the 50s - 90s and although not involved himself that world he grew up in had given him an insight rarely seen.