Hauled back early from an exercise with the SAS, Agent Paul Richter is tasked with a short-notice extraction job.It goes unexpectedly well, and as a kind of reward he’s given an easy one: he’s to investigate the case of James Holden, a middle-aged Englishman living in Dubai, who appears able to predict terrorist attacks.It should be simple — a break in the sun and a couple of days’ work at most — but, almost as soon as he arrives in Dubai, he is diverted to Bahrain.Then it all starts getting complicated.Who is the secretive patient in the Manama hospital?Who has slaughtered a dozen people at a remote stable in Saudi Arabia just to steal one horse?And why has a US State Department jet carrying a specialist CIA team been diverted to Cairo?Nothing seems to make sense until Richter finally uncovers the outlines of a plot that will come to fruition during the world’s richest horse-race.But, behind the scenes, an even more complex scheme is being executed and Richter is in a race against time to prevent a catastrophic terrorist attack on the city of Dubai itself.

'Payback' is an edge-of-the-seat thriller that will grip readers from the first page to the last.