With the worldwide television audience for the Rugby World Cup final now at 1.1 billion and growing, the void that is rugby literature has never echoed so loudly. Loose Head, the world’s first rugby thriller, was created to fill that void.
Anyone who has ever played the game knows the first Rule of Rugby: what happens on tour, stays on tour. When John Weathersby, loose-head prop for the aristocratic Hastewicke Gentlemen old-boys rugby team, violates this sacred trust, the consequences are swift – and deadly. And it’s up to Dex Reed, Hastewicke flanker and a detective with Hendon Specialist Crime Directorate, to discover which of his teammates will stoop to slaughter to protect his secret life.
Dex is faced with a gut-wrenching dilemma: how to solve a blackmailer’s murder while still protecting his oldest friends’ dark secrets – and his own. Along the way he must unravel a tangled skein of duplicity, on his way to an answer he could never expect.
Loose Head debuted on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk last month, and will soon be available in select bookstores in England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and North America.
“A lively thriller!” – Rugby World Magazine
Publisher: Createspace
Paperback, 350 pp
Price: £11.99 (UK)
Available from: Amazon.co.uk CLICK HERE
