Check out the incredible John Kite thriller series, featuring PI John Kite and a host of characters who are by turns quirky, dangerous, cool, sexy, amusing, intrepid – and a whole lot more. Enjoy!
The Art of Danger (John Kite Book 1)
by Stuart Doughty
Genre: Mystery | Thrillers | Action & Adventure
Can an oil painting be a weapon of war?
Sounds ridiculous?
PI John Kite discovers it’s true.
John Kite is a specialist in recovering stolen art. He goes to meet a criminal, to swap a hefty cash reward for a stolen picture, but finds the man shot dead and the picture stolen again. Why is anyone so desperate to own the painting? It’s an obscure work by a little-known artist. Ex-cop Kite is tough and sexy, with not only a past life he keeps secret, but also a sense of humour. Sparky dialogue moves the investigation briskly from a devious PR guru, to a clash with a feisty MI5 agent, and uncovers looted artefacts from Iraq. Then Kite discovers a Middle Eastern conspiracy and realises getting the picture back is a matter of life and death. Literally.
John Kite has to stop two nations starting a war.
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Paint It Blackmail (John Kite Book 2)
by Stuart Doughty
Genre: Literature & Fiction
The biggest art heist since World War II.
The Government turns to PI John Kite for help.
But the heist is the result of a politician’s lie.
For ex-cop John Kite, it begins as a suspected forgery case. Then the alleged forger is murdered. Kite identifies an international gangster as a suspect, but is hampered by the duplicities of power politics. The series trademarks of sparky dialogue and a sense of humour move the story at a cracking pace, as a girl’s wacky demonstration in an art gallery leads to a desperate chase, and Kite saving the girl from certain death. Tough, sexy Kite is forced to speak out against those who hired him, and is arrested by the police. His only ally is a cool and sensuous civil servant. Together they rush to stop a disaster scenario but ask:
Is the true criminal Kite’s employer?
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Pictures To Die For (John Kite Book 3)
by Stuart Doughty
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Thrillers | Mystery
A multi-million dollar painting travels through Florida in a high security truck.
Then it’s hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
The painting, truck and driver are vaporised.
Why would anyone waste an expensive artefact like this? That’s what PI John Kite can’t understand as he goes on the trail of the perpetrator. At the same time, he’s hired by a former lover – a beguiling and kooky woman, for whom he still has deep feelings. She wants him to investigate the disappearance of her husband, a lawyer and baronet. The series trademarks of sparky dialogue and a sense of humour move the story on fast, as ex-cop Kite works both cases simultaneously. He chases round Europe, from London to Brussels, Antwerp and Scotland and discovers the missing husband is close to an eccentric gallery owner connected to the art-destruction case. There’s tension and ambivalent feelings between Kite and his ex-lover, but nevertheless, they join forces. She’s an ex-cop herself, and together they follow leads which take them to Delaware. Where it’s suddenly crisis time.
The lives of both Kite and the woman hang in the balance as they find themselves embroiled in a vicious, private war between billionaires.
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Killing Art (John Kite Book 4)
by Stuart Doughty
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Thrillers | Mystery
“They’re killing art,” a woman tells PI John Kite. “You must stop them.”
Then she is gunned down on a smart city street.
Kite is haunted by the woman’s few simple words and takes her plea to heart. But what did she mean, and why was she killed? Is there a connection to the dead auctioneer floating in the ocean, or the sudden flood of stolen art and antiques coming to market? The deeper he digs, the more he uncovers the chilling and covert actions of a world power. The series trademarks of sparky dialogue and a sense of humour move the story on fast: Kite’s quest for answers takes him on a 1500 mile road chase, and a speedboat pursuit across the Mediterranean.
With a volcano ready to blow its top, can Kite stop the conspiracy before it causes western economies to go into melt-down ?
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Scam Artists (John Kite Book 5)
by Stuart Doughty
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Mystery | Thrillers
He knows when the heist is.
He doesn’t know where. Or who.
He’s got 9 days to find out – and stop a major crime.
PI John Kite is called by a friend in trouble, who’s on assignment in a lawless country, and can’t raise his boss to pass on vital information. He tells Kite the perps’ codename for the heist is “Operation Eton” and it’s scheduled for the 13th of the month. Then the line is cut. Kite can’t reconnect. He can’t contact the friend’s boss either, so he feels duty-bound to take on the case. The series trademarks of sparky dialogue and a sense of humour move the story on at speed: Kite’s home is broken into and trashed. Only one minor item is taken, but it gives Kite a shiver down his spine. It’s a relic of his dead father, who was a full-time criminal.
Pursuing leads, he returns to his father’s old house in Florida, where he finds himself being tailed by the FBI. Is the deadly dangerous Operation Eton connected to his father’s life of crime?
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