Simon Kernick

Simon Kernick (born 1966 in Slough, Berkshire) is a British thriller/crime writer now living in Oxfordshire with his wife and two daughters.^[1] Whilst he was a student his jobs included fruitpicker and christmas-tree uprooter. He graduated from Brighton Polytechnic in 1991 with a degree in humanities.^[2]. Kernick had a passion for crime fiction writing from a young age and produced many short stories during his time at polytechnic. After graduating Kernick joined MMT Computing in London in early 1992, where a relative was the Chairman and Managing Director. Kernick was a key member of the sales team and was very highly regarded. However, he left the company after 4 years in the hope of trying to secure a publishing deal. Despite interest from a number of publishers Kernick was unable to secure a deal, so he joined the sales force of the specialist IT and Business Consultancy Metaskil plc in Aldermaston, Berkshire in 1998 where he remained until he secured his first book deal ('The Business of Dying') in September 2001. His novel Relentless was recommended on Richard & Judy's Summer book club 2007. It was the 8th best-selling paperback, and the best-selling thriller in the UK in the same year.

Bibliography

The Business of Dying (2002) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-04978-0)

Dennis Milne is no normal cop, he is also an assassin. But on his latest killing he has been set up he has killed two customs officers and an accountant. Now his friends and enemies are out to get him and he must use all his skills just to stay alive.

The Murder Exchange (2003) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-04979-9)

When Max Iversson, an ex-soldier who is now co-director of a small firm of freelance bodyguards, is introduced to north London nightclub owner, Roy Fowler, he senses immediately that the guy is trouble. Fowler wants security for a meeting with some people who want to buy his nightclub. Five grand for a couple of hours’ work is too tempting a proposition to turn down, so Iversson -- against his better judgment -- takes on the job. However, when he and two colleagues accompany Fowler to the “meet” in a deserted north London industrial estate, it turns out to be not so much a double-cross as a bloodbath. With Fowler and both bodyguards dead, Iversson grabs the briefcase containing the deeds to the club, and vacates the scene rapidly.

But the suitcase is empty, which makes no sense at all. Three men have been shot, and Iversson wants to know why. So begins a hunt for answers that will take him into dangerous territory, and also into direct conflict with Detective Sergeant Gallan. Gallan is investigating the same people and sniffing around the same territory. But he’s like a dog with a bone -- he just keeps digging away, unearthing in the process a murderous conspiracy. Both men are playing with fire and unknown to each other are heading towards a final confrontation with forces as ruthless as they are determined, and from which neither man is likely to emerge in one piece.

The Crime Trade (2004) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-05135-1

When operation surgical strike goes horribly wrong, one of the officers is under suspicion: Stegs Jenner. Now he has decided to go it alone. DI John Gallan and DS Tina Boyd are also apart of the investigation. but what they dont know is that their enquiries will take them into the heart of one of London's most notorious criminal gangs.

A Good Day to Die (2005) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-05146-7)

From the beaches of the Philippines to the mean streets of London, a hunt for justice becomes a battle for survival.

When renegade ex-cop Dennis Milne stumbles upon information that could solve the brutal execution of his friend, he decides to return to the violent city he once called home, and hunt down the murderer. Milne arrives in a pre-Christmas London that is cold and hostile.

But he is no longer a policeman; no longer charged with upholding the law. And although his former colleagues don’t know he’s back, it soon becomes clear that there are people who do, and they’ll stop at nothing to get him out of the way…

Relentless (2006) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-05471-7)

When Tom Meron gets a call at 3 o'clock on a normal Saturday afternoon, it changes his life forever. It's his best friend from school, someone he hasn't seen in a long time, but on the phone he is breath less and in much pain. He then cries out six word that changes Tom's life forever... the first two lines of his address.

Severed (2007) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-05473-3)

Tyler wakes up in a strange room on a bed covered in blood. He has no idea how he got there, beside him is a dead girl. His girlfriend. He then gets told to press play on the DVD player. The film shows him killing his girlfriend. He is then told to go to an address with a briefcase and await further instructions. If he is to survive the next 24 hours, he must find out who really killed his girlfriend, and why. Before they come for him...

Deadline (July 2008)

Andrea Devern gets home late from work and the house is in darkness. She steps in side and the phone rings she answers it to find that her fourteen year old daughter has been taken and her kidnappers want half a million pounds in cash. They give her 48 hours to get the money and if she calls the police she will die. Andrea then realizes that her husband is also missing. Is he behind it all or is he a victim to all this. Andrea most find out before time runs out.

Target (June 2009)

When Rob Fallon gets drunk one night, he ends up joining his best friend's girlfriend, Jenny, back at her apartment. He fells guilty before anything even happens, but that soon changes to shock when two men break in to the apartment and take Jenny and try to kill Rob. He manages to escape, but the police don't believe him. Everyone claims she is on holiday abroad, her apartment appears untouched and the doorman says he didn't seen or hear anything. But he knows what he witnessed, but when he starts asking questions, he kinds him self the target of killers. What are they trying to hide? Either he finds out, or he is dead.

The Last to Die (comeing in 2010)

When ex-police officer John Cone is found lying wounded in a room full of dead bodies, he has a terrifying story to tell. Three days earlier he was hired by a mysterious client to snatch a suspected serial killer, Andrew Kent (aka the Penthouse Predator) from custody while he's being transferred between prisons. But having seized Kent, things immediately go badly wrong. People start dying, Kent goes missing, and Cone begins to realize that the case against Kent may not be so cut and dried as he was led to believe. Someone else who shares that suspicion is newly promoted, DI Tina Boyd. She was one of the Murder Squad team who'd arrested and charged Kent several months earlier. A few hours before he was snatched, Kent had called Tina claiming he had highly important information about a murder, but refusing to divulge what it was on the phone. And now he's gone, and Tina has to find him. And find him fast, because it's clear some very high-powered people want to silence him. The question both Tina and John Cone are asking themselves as they race towards a terrifying confrontation, is why...

Main Characters

Dennis Milne

Dennis Milne was a policeman and also a assissin who only likes to punish the bad guys. He has apearred in two simon kernick's books, The Business of Dying and A Good Day to Die, (but he does get talked about in The Murder Exchange) and is set to be in another book to be lealest in january 2011. It will be set in between The Business of Dying and A Good Day to Die.

Mike Bolt

Mike Bolt has apearred in four of Simon Kernicks books(Relentless,Severed,Deadline and Target)although he only makes a small of a few chapters in Severed. In the story's we find he was once married, but his wife died in a car crash that he was driving and gave him a scar on his chin. He works close with a friend calles Mo Khan who has apearred beside him in the four books he has been in and works with Tina Boyd in deadline and target.

Tina Boyd

Tina Boyd "aka" The Black Widow,apears in six of simon's books all apart from The Business of dying and Severed and only in one chapter in A Good Day to Die, and most with Mike Bolt. She got her nick name in relentless where we find that she was married to John Gallon (who got killed).

John Gallon

John Gallon has apeared in three of Simons books, in A Good Day to Die he only apears for one chapter, and is the last time we she him before he gets killed. John replaced Dennis Milne after what happend in "The Business of Dying". But he died in between the end of A Good Day to Die and Relentless, we find in "Target" out that he got killed by a Paul Wise.

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