A Single Source

Completely unputdownable - gripping

Tight, pacy and strong on atmosphere

A compelling story set against some of the global forces shaping our times

Peter Hanington has a gift for fast-paced narrative, atmospheric location and authentic, often hilarious dialogue … people trafficking, gun smuggling, murder and betrayal are all conjured in a shifting interplay that draws you in from the first line and keeps you guessing until, literally, the very last.

If you love le Carre, were gripped by Homeland and couldn’t get your nose out of A Dying Breed, Hanington’s first novel about war reporters, here’s another thrilling read for you …The anti-hero in both novels is hard-bitten hack William Carver - a classic Lunchtime O’Booze figure - who is, miraculously, still alive. Carver fans will look forward to meeting the old curmudgeon again in Hanington’s next cracking tale.

It’s such a pleasure to read a novel by a writer who is the real deal. Peter Hanington is entirely in command of this thrilling story and tells it with great verve. - Kirsty Wark, author of THE LEGACY OF ELIZABETH PRINGLE

One of the most assured pieces of writing I have read for a very long time. Peter Hanington’s characters come completely alive, and you feel he knows them intimately. The sense of setting out on a journey in safe hands makes it all the more shocking when the plot takes its gut-wrenching twists. A foreign correspondent’s life is, like a soldier’s, made up of long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror; my advice to Peter’s BBC colleagues is ‘pack this in your grab bag, and the dull hours will fly by’. It’s very good indeed. - Edward Stourton

Hanington has a knack for telling the stories of the lives behind the news headlines in a way that invites you, the reader, to care about his characters. It is an invitation I am happy to accept. It is one of his many talents as a writer. - Fi Glover, the Fortunately podcast

Peter Hanington is a writer and journalist. His critically acclaimed William Carver thrillers begin with A Dying Breed and star the eponymous old-school radio journalist against a backdrop of high-stakes international espionage. He is also the author of the Susan Cotton series of crime novels, which are set in Brighton and begin with The Darkest Tide.

Peter worked as a radio journalist for over twenty-five years including stints at Radio 4, the BBC World Service, The World Tonight and sixteen years on the Today Programme. He lives in London with his wife and has two grown-up children living in Glasgow.