Eight Days Later

Boyd Aimes, is an intelligence operator, a professional soldier, with a formidable reputation for getting the hard jobs done.
During twenty-four years of military service, Aimes has survived the streets of Northern Ireland, the Balkans war, street gangs of Sierra Leone, Operation Telic and the second Gulf war. A gifted career is brought to a premature end by a stray bullet. Now, he is living on his barge "Valkyrie," wandering the Greater London canals in quiet anonymity.
Ben Randal, a young security guard is brutally murdered on his way home, and there is no obvious motive.
Six hours later, Danny Bredon is found in a ditch, beaten, and left for dead.
Then a text message from a former girlfriend. "His oldest friend is in big trouble and needs help." Events that take Aimes back to Aldershot to discover why, putting him on a collision course with a Glaswegian drug dealer, the son of an Afghan warlord, and the CIA. Aimes must now use the still green waters of the London canal system to protect, and hide his friend, and bring together the men who deliver his retribution.
Boyd Aimes is a no-nonsense door breaker, a life taker, with an instinct forged in the crucible of war. As the week unfolds Aimes puts the evidence together to find out why, and in so doing what he has discovered might offer a unique opportunity for British military intelligence. "Eight Days Later"this is the first in a series of novels featuring "Boyd Aimes," "an alternative solution."The next book in the Boyd Aimes series "The price of a life" is due in June 2019.