Five Knives: A Will Finch Mystery Thriller (Series Prequel)

  Lone Hunter—One billion dollars. Two killers. Three ways to die. Will Finch and Eve Noon bait the trap. But could their clever ploy trigger catastrophe when two killers battle for a billion dollar prize? Or can Will and Eve defeat their most cunning adversary yet?

  Second Life—1978, Jonestown. 909 dead—two children survive. Where are they now? When Will Finch stumbles across an abandoned jacket he learns that it holds a secret. A cryptic message that threatens to make him the latest victim of the Jonestown massacre.

  Enjoy These Other Novels by D. F. Bailey

  Fire Eyes—a W.H. Smith First Novel Award finalist. “Fire Eyes is a taut psychological thriller with literary overtones, a very contemporary terrorist romance.”

  — Globe and Mail

  Healing the Dead

  “You start reading Healing the Dead with a gasp and never get a proper chance to exhale.”

  — Globe and Mail

  The Good Lie

  “A tale that looks at a universal theme…that readers are going to love.”

  — Boulevard Magazine

  Exit from America

  “Another great story of moral revelation, despair and redemption by a contemporary master.”

  — Lawrence Russell, culturecourt.com

  First Four—A boxset of D. F. Bailey’s first four psychological thrillers. The collection includes his first novel Fire Eyes, plus Healing The Dead, The Good Lie, and Exit From America. BONUS: his short story, “Suitcase,” the perfect epilogue to Healing the Dead.

  Five Knives

  Copyright © D. F. Bailey 2018: Registration #1145816

  ISBN: 978-0-9950483-6-2

  Edited by Dave Henry

  Published by CatchwordPublishing.com

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner, except where permitted by law, or in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

  Five Knives is a work of fiction. The resemblance of any characters to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Names, characters, places, brands, media, situations, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  Acknowledgements — I am extremely grateful to Lawrence Russell and Rick Gibbs for reading the early versions of Five Knives. Their insights, wisdom and advice were invaluable to me as I worked through the final draft of the novel. — DFB

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