The Devil's Bounty

Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson return for another edge-of-your-seat thriller. On the trail of a violent rapist, the partners travel to Mexico, land of outlaws and bloody murder.

This is real man-hunt stuff, with tension and action galore . . . Readers who like their thrills and spills coming at them at a hectic pace will revel in this tale of life and death

To research the Ryan Lock series of thrillers, Sean Black has trained as a bodyguard with former members of the Royal Military Police's specialist close protection unit, spent time inside America’s most dangerous maximum security prison, Pelican Bay Supermax in California, and ventured into the tunnels under Las Vegas. A graduate of Columbia University in New York, he lives with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles. 
 
For more information on Sean Black and his books, see his website at www.seanblackbooks.com, or follow him at www.facebook.com/seanblackthrillers

‘Locks you in and loads up the tension’ Simon Kernick 
 
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR JUSTICE? 
 
Wealthy playboy CHARLIE MENDEZ is a violent rapist who thinks he’s above the law. When he’s finally convicted for his horrific crimes against women, he flees to Mexico. 
 
But he hasn’t reckoned with former military bodyguard, RYAN LOCK, or his partner, TY JOHNSON. 
 
As they begin to track him down they realise that Mendez has some powerful friends – a murderous drug cartel who enjoy making grisly examples of their enemies. 
 
In a lawless country, Lock must take the law into his own hands . . .

Gridlock

The city of angels has a stalker. Only one man can stop him before he kills again. A non-stop, action-packed thriller featuring elite body-guard Ryan Lock.

Sean Black grew up in Scotland, studied film in New York, and written the screenplays for many of Britain's best-known TV dramas. To research the first two Ryan Lock thrillers, he underwent weeks of intensive bodyguard training and spent time inside America's most dangerous maximum security prison, Pelican Bay Supermax in California. In Gridlock, he takes his readers deep inside the murky world of America's multi-billion dollar adult entertainment industry.

Adult movie actress, Raven Lane, is one of the most lusted after women in America, with millions of fans to prove it. But when a headless corpse turns up in the trunk of her car, she realises that fame carries a terrible price. 
 
Fearing for her life, and with the LAPD seemingly unable to protect her, Raven turns to elite bodyguard, Ryan Lock for help. Lock stops bad things happening to good people, but can he stop the tidal wave of violence now threatening the city of Los Angeles as Raven's predator targets - and kills - those closest to her? 
 
As events spiral out of control, Lock is drawn into a dangerous world where money rules, where sex is a commodity to be bought and sold, and where no one can be trusted, least of all his beautiful new client. But what he cannot know is the terrifying price he's about to pay - just for getting involved...

Lockdown

From the publishers who brought you Lee Child: a high concept conspiracy thriller that delivers every step of the way. Jack Reacher meets 24!

Black drives his hero into the tightest of spots with a force and energy that jump off the page... This is a writer, and a hero, to watch

A thrilling debut that locks you in and loads up the tension!

Sean Black writes with the pace of Lee Child and the heart of Harlan Coben

Funny, tough, and furiously paced, Lockdown explodes off the page

Hold on tight - this one burns like a lit fuse

An action movie on the printed page... a protagonist tough enough to take on the Jacks of this world (thats Bauer and Reacher)... an adrenaline-rush read that you're not going to forget any time soon

Murder, kidnapping, explosions... mix in Sean Black's no-nonsense all-action hero, Ryan Lock, and you have all the right ingredients for a top-notch thriller

Tipped to be the biggest selling thriller debut of 2010

Sean Black grew up in Scotland, studied film in New York and has written the screenplays for many of Britain's best-known TV dramas. While writing Lockdown, he undertook a gruelling 24-day close protection course encompassing two weeks in an army camp in the UK, followed by firearms training in the Czech Republic. Lockdown, the first in a major series featuring Ryan Lock, is his first novel.

NEW YORK 
It may be Christmas in New York, but for ex-soldier turned élite bodyguard Ryan Lock it's business as usual: his mission is to protect one of America's most ruthless businessmen. 
 
A BLOODY SHOOT-OUT 
Suddenly gunshots ring out. People run for cover. Innocent people are mown down. Amid the chaos, Lock's hunt for the killers turns into an explosive game of cat and mouse. 
 
A DEADLY SECRET 
Lock's search for the truth takes him from the rooftops of a New York skyscraper to a heavily fortified warehouse on the Hudson where he confronts one of the world's most dangerous women. As the clock ticks towards midnight on New Year's Eve, all routes into and out of Manhattan are sealed, and Lock realises that not only is his own life in terrible danger but so are the lives of millions of others...

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His mission should have been straightforward: to keep one man alive for one week. 
 
ONE PRISONER 
Super-intelligent and brutally violent, Frank 'Reaper' Hays is a leading member of America's most powerful white supremacists prison gang. 
 
ONE BODYGUARD 
Ex-military bodyguard Ryan Lock has been hired to protect him. His mission is to keep Reaper alive for a week until he can be brought to trial. 
 
ONE WEEK TO STAY ALIVE 
But Lock soon realises that he faces the toughest assignment of his career - just to survive ...

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