The Dark Side: Bob Cox

Retired Detective Inspector Bob Cox is a character forged from years of service on London’s toughest streets. He comes alive on the page through a blend of meticulous research, authentic police detail, and a raw humanity that makes his dilemmas impossible to ignore.

Haunted by the cases where the guilty walked free, Bob finds himself questioning the very system he once defended. When he teams up with an old friend, the gloves come off. Crossing into the shadows, he draws on his insider knowledge of police work procedures, surveillance, forensics to hunt down those who’ve slipped through the cracks.

At the heart of his story lies a moral conflict: the tension between the oath he once swore and the vigilante justice he now pursues. Bob Cox is a man readers will root for, wrestle with, and question in equal measure because the line between hero and vigilante has never been thinner.

This book was a pleasure and fun to write; it took me away from the Viper series which on hindsight wasn’t the best of ideas as I was just getting ready to write Viper 10. Having two genres on the go would have been difficult but a challenge, but when I write I must be totally focussed on that one book and that one only.

I have Viper 10 and Bob Cox 2 in my brain but I’m in a dilemma, which one to write first? I’ve had a sabbatical over the last few years due to health but I’m firing on all cylinders now, so I must decide and soon.

People often ask me do I read other authors and if so, who?

I haven’t read a book since 2001 when I starting to form my own manuscripts in my head and on scraps of paper...

Back then having recently been retired through ill health because of injuries on duty...

The Bob Cox series has always been buzzing around in my head...

Day after day and towards the end of the book, night after night...

Reading your own manuscripts, I find hard as you go word blind...

Then it goes to the editor — this can be problematic to be truthful...

I’m looking forward to writing the second book in the Bob Cox series...

Here’s to “An over-caffeinated and sometimes over-inebriated masochist…