Dark Heart, Heavy Soul - Keith Nixon

An adversary from the past asks Konstantin Boryakov for a favour - break into a facility designed to protect 200 million in cash and steal an item far more valuable. Theft, murder, mayhem and a sprinkling of deception await him... Read the novels Ken Bruen loves! All Konstantin Boryakov wants is a quiet life. In Margate. But someone is looking for him, someone who'll do whatever they can to get the ex-KGB agent's attention. Enter Violet, a woman with a penchant for throwing people who upset her out of windows. And Campari. Reluctantly, Konstantin finds himself building a team to pull off a heist - breaking into a high security cash deposit facility with a hot line to the police. But he's not to take money, what he's after is a case, containing something apparently even more precious than the 200 million in notes that's held behind razor wire defences. The first member of Konstantin's team is testosterone loaded prison officer David Lockwood, a man with debts to pay, and not to society. The pair break Sticky Mickey, a data mining expert, out of prison. With the arrival of strong man Lawson the team is seemingly complete, but when Lawson winds up dead, the result of an inconvenient accident, Konstantin is wary, even more so when Lawson's void is filled by the volatile Violet. Getting into the facility was the easy step and Lawson just the first to die. Everyone connected with the heist, it seems, is a target and Konstantin must go back to the beginning to find out who's behind it all before he winds up with a bullet in the heart. Konstantin Boryakov is done with the past, but seemingly, it's not done with him..."