Blood for Blood

'Care'. There's a word if ever I heard one. I looked it up in a dictionary once. It had a lot of definitions – but not one that applied to me and Sean...

Red has survived the barbarity and abuse of the orphanage. His twin brother Sean has not been so lucky. With a sworn oath to avenge his brother's murder, Red kidnaps a policeman's daughter and leaves her to be brought up in care, to suffer like he and Sean did. But this is just the first part of Red's plan for revenge against all those who took their freedom.

Now, twenty years later, the time has come. The kidnapped girl has grown up and left the orphanage, never knowing who her real parents are or the part she'll now play in Red's shocking revenge. And for those who have been living their lives in peace, with faded memories of twin boys who were put into care years ago, life is about to descend into hell.

But with the criminal underworld, the police and an unexpected serial killer on the scene, sometimes even the best laid plans go awry...

PRAISE FOR J.M. SMYTH

"Just blew me to smithereens. Unbelievable book. Ferocious. Terrifying."
KEN BRUEN

"Raw, harsh, merciless, as cold as ice and beyond all moral limits"
ULRICH NOLLER, Funkhaus Europa

"Smyth is a febrile and original talent!"
THE TIMES