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The River Bank's Secret
Paperback
Publisher: Tom Ball
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
One witness. One secret. One lie that could topple a government.
Peter and Thomas lead a life built on careful discretion. Devoted to one another, they have spent years navigating London in the shadows, avoiding the judgmental gaze of a society they don't quite trust. But their quiet world shatters one night during a walk along the river Bance. Out of the darkness, they witness a hooded figure fleeing a scene of carnage, leaving behind a woman-Mandy-clinging to life with a blade in her shoulder.
Terrified of being outed and dragged into a media circus, they flee the scene after a single, desperate call for help. But conscience is a persistent ghost. When they eventually step forward, they find themselves caught in a web far more dangerous than a random mugging.
Unknown to them, Mandy is the keeper of a dangerous double life. For two years, she has been the secret lover of Alistair Jones, a high-ranking Cabinet Minister. To settle a crippling gambling debt, Alistair has used his power to smuggle drugs into the UK-only to be betrayed by Mandy herself in a multimillion-pound hijack.
Now, as Scotland Yard closes in and an international cartel sends assassins to silence the witnesses, Peter and Thomas must choose: stay hidden and watch an innocent woman die, or step into the light and risk everything to expose the rot at the heart of the British establishment.
In a city of secrets, the truth is the most dangerous weapon of all.
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