To Run a Little Faster

London, 1938. Europe is on the brink of war. And in England Anthony Eden’s resignation as Prime Minister has rocked the tottering foundations of the country.

So not much attention is paid when Michael Hensman, Member of Parliament for Crayshott East, leaves Westminster for a short holiday with his wife — and vanishes without trace.

But Fleet Street journalist Simon Darrell is sent to investigate. His unorthodox methods get him taken off the case. But he decides to do some unofficial investigating of his own…

After people connected with Hensman are found dead, it is clear that something sinister is going on. And before long Simon finds a disturbing connection between the murders and the threat of Nazi Germany.

He is soon caught up in an ugly conspiracy that involves political intrigue, corruption, blackmail, death — and the fate of an entire nation.... And he must Run A Little Faster to stay alive.

Before coming an author of fiction in the early 1960’s John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer and a journalist. In all Gardner has fifty-four novels to his credit, including Maestro, which was the New York Times book of the year.

He was also invited by Ian Fleming’s literary copyright holders to write a series of continuation James Bond novels, which proved to be so successful that instead of the contracted three books he went on to publish some fourteen titles, including Licence Renewed and Icebreaker.

Having lived in the Republic of Ireland, the United States and the UK, John Gardner sadly died in August of 2007 having just completed his third novel in the Moriarty trilogy, Conan Doyle’s eponymous villain of the Sherlock Holmes series.