Books by Tom Cain

Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people. And one of Carver's targets has got away. He was beaten and tortured and left to die, but Samuel Carver is a hard man to kill.Carver's hunt will take him deep into the heart of a conspiracy in which the lives of millions are at stake.

Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus' wise rule with an English polity dominated by malice, intrigue and envy. This text examines these different strands interwoven by Jonson.

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shockwaves around the financial world. Moreover, what if it was only a dry run for a bigger and even bolder attack on the financial capital of the world, the City of London?Samuel Carver is about to find himself on the biggest mission of his life.

Millions starve and opponents are flung in jail, while Gushungo and his cronies get rich on the country's rich natural resources. A powerful consortium of political and business interests offer Samuel Carver the job of enforcing regime change.

So when he finds himself caught in the middle of a riot in South London, he must fall back on his instincts and years' of training as the riot turns into a battleground. Someone planned this riot for political gain and now Carver - in the wrong place at the wrong time - looks like the perfect scapegoat.

He is the most popular President in decades - which is why they want him deadWhen a people-trafficker dies a violent death in Dubai, and a gangland money-launderer has a fatal car accident in San Francisco, both bear the hallmarks of a Sam Carver 'accident'. The only problem is Sam Carver no longer plays that game.

Samuel Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. He is called to do a hit at very short notice. When he discovers the identity of his target, and the identity of the target's companion, he knows that his life is over. This is a secret too big to let him live, unless he can track down the real villains before they get to him.