John Milton novels

John Milton, a former British assassin, has been trying to erase the bad memories of his recent jobs. He eventually appears in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where he is drawn into a vicious battle with narco-gangs that control the borderlands. He saves the life of an idealistic journalist and tries to keep her safe until he can smuggle her into Texas where she will be safe. It is a race to beat the assassin Santa Muerta (Saint Death) who is trailing them....

"John Milton is a ghost. He was Number One. The most dangerous assassin in Group Fifteen, the black-ops organisation that solves problems when diplomacy has failed. Now Milton is Her Majesty's most wanted fugitive--an anonymous loner with a deadly set of skills. So when he is arrested following a brawl in a Texas bar, the last person he expected to bail him out was a glamorous operative from the Russian Secret Service. Milton is blackmailed into finding...

"John Milton is trying to make amends for a career spent killing for the British Secret Service. He has a burning need to right wrongs--and rewrite his own bloody past. He finds himself in Louisiana--the Big Sleazy, the bayou, and the post-Katrina wreckage of the Gulf Coast--with a debt of honor to repay. Isadora Bartholomew, who is his partner's wife, needs help. Joel Babineaux, a ruthless property magnate, is out to sink the charity she established...

"Milton is keeping a low profile in London when he meets Eddie Fabian. Fabian confesses that he is considering suicide, and that the reason for his depression was the abuse that he suffered as a child. Milton offers to help, but, before he can, Eddie is found dead in circumstances that Milton considers suspicious. And then events take a turn that no-one could have anticipated... Milton’s attempted good deed becomes a quest to unveil corruption...