BEN COULTER
A SoCal Story
What do you do when you fall for your best friend's girl? Your best friend who just happens to be an international film star and a girl who just happens to be a drug-crazed supermodel? Can an introverted London author really handle the heat of L.A. and all its wicked ways? Find out in A SoCal Story.
Ben Coulter's fourth novel sees him climb out from the grungy pool of the urban crime thriller and aspire to the lofty heights of contemporary literary fiction, while continuing to employ the same grit, addictive mystery and relentless tension he has become known for.
Tony Lowe is an internationally published author, achieving the aspiration of so many. But Tony isn't one of the many, Tony is one of the few. The 1 in 4 few who suffer the torment of a noxious mind. His collapsing mental health will not allow him to appreciate his literary achievement and his self-doubt threatens to turn to self-sabotage.
When he receives a call from his university room-mate, Marley George, asking him to come to L.A. to adapt his novel to film, he doesn't hesitate in saying yes. Marley is now a fully fledged Hollywood heart-throb, garnering international fame and vast wealth.
Soothed by warm winter sunshine and laid-back Malibu living, Tony settles into the L.A. lifestyle, calming his dependency on prescription drugs and limiting time spent with poisonous memories. He feels his frosty mental health begin to thaw in the warm SoCal sun.
But he soon finds himself swapping one addiction for another as he spends more time with Abi Hart, Marley's supermodel partner. The celebrity couple’s relationship is on the rocks and Tony falls for her New York charms like a struggling actress for the Hollywood casting couch. She welcomes him into her world without limitation. A world of A-list celebrity and class A narcotics.
He quickly discovers that the reality of life in LaLa Land is profoundly different from the one portrayed on the silver screen. Racked with feelings of guilt for betraying his friend, and an immoral fear of losing his movie deal, he struggles to resist Abi and all the libertine lust she dispenses.
Southern California is the land where fantasy can come true, but just as soon be slung onto Skid Row, discarded, broken and bruised with a hundred dollar a day habit.
Will Tony live the dream, or suffer the nightmare? One thing is sure, just because it sparkles, doesn't mean it shines.
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POISONED SAINTS
When ambitious yet troubled Drug Dealer Charlie Paccadillo discovers one of his top cocaine distributors mysteriously shot to death, his world is thrown into disarray. Alice, an unassuming single mother with connections to a rival crew of dealers, soon becomes his only release from the angst, as he searches for answers and battles to control his crumbling criminal empire.
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As DI Jack Cloud investigates the murder in the gritty London overspill town of Stambro, Charlie quickly becomes his chief suspect. Looking to solve his first shooting, career driven Jack will stop at nothing to get the job done.
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Can Charlie find a way out or is he in too deep to turn back? Will Jack find the real killer? The clock is ticking and the pressure's on, every decision counts in a world where life is cheap and reputation is king. The street is always watching and no one, detective nor gangster, can afford to lose.
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KEEP ON RUNNING
In this follow up to the Amazon number 1 bestseller Poisoned Saints, Billy runs headfirst into trouble whilst on a marijuana run inside the treacherous Burmese border. Back in Thailand, Billy is forced to make a new deal with a murderous crime lord whilst keeping Islamic terrorists and ruthless Russian gangsters at bay.
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As love unsuspectingly enters his life in the form of all American girl next door, Mel, Billy struggles to keep his gang of criminal misfits in line; Che, his old Stambro friend and struggling drug addict, Nate, a former US Marine and Compton psycho and Orly, the laid-back, weed smoking Frenchman.
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Can Billy keep up his affluent lifestyle whilst cultivating his newfound romance? Can Che resist the hedonistic delights of South East Asia? In the contrasting land of Buddhism and the death penalty lessons will be learnt. Billy must stay one step ahead of his past whilst out smarting the present, or be forced to Keep on Running.
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WHEN THE SAINT
COMES MARCHING
HOME
The third and final instalment of the best selling Poisoned Saints trilogy:
Billy finds himself thrown straight back in at the underworld deep end, working directly for the ruthless Mr Granger, with The Dunn’s soon becoming a distant and painful memory. Finding himself, then, as Stambro’s Top Boy he’s forced to do and sell things that do not sit well, testing his twisted, black morals like never before.
A chance meeting with Hayley leads to an unlikely, but passionate, romance. The pair soon realise they both want the same thing; to escape Stambro for a new and honest life in the Far East.
With DI Jack Cloud back on the case and hungry for Billy’s blood, Mr Granger pulling him closer into his inner circle with every treacherous job, and fresh adversaries and harms jumping out from every turn, escape will not come easy.
Can Billy Marine beat the system whilst trying to find and retain inner peace? Can he get out intact, mentally and physically? Does the world really hold a place for such a hardened gangster to grow and change? Or, is he destined for such an ill-fate as all his old crew that have gone before? Strap yourself in tight, because one thing’s for sure; it’s going to be a bumpy, humours, violently wonderful road to the ultimate resolution.
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