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THE RUTLAND IDENTITY

Michael Dane

ISBN 978-1-916668-61-4

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Publication: 26 APRIL 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668614
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 320 pp
Thema: FH Thriller

Author & Book location: Rutland

• A crime thriller set in the 1990s following
retired Customs & Excise investigator Frank
McBride and former head of military
intelligence Brigadier Bernard Taylor who
investigate a suspicious death in the sleepy
Rutland village of Leighton Parva.
• Former adversaries become fellow
investigators in the second of the Frank
McBride series, perfect for fans of Frederick
Forsyth, Phillip Kerr and John Le Carré.
• Written by an ex Customs & Excise
Michael Dane spent over ten years as an officer in the Customs and investigator and lawyer, with experience
Excise National Investigation Service investigating drug trafficking, investigating fraud, corruption and smuggling
VAT fraud and smuggling of all kinds. He later retrained as a lawyer at the highest level.
and joined the private sector where he investigated fraud and
corruption all over the world. He is retired and lives in the Vale of Rutland 1998. When George Bowman, the publican of
Belvoir. The Rutland Identity is the second book in his Frank McBride Leighton Parva’s Old Volunteer Inn is found dead at the
series. bottom of his cellar steps the police dismiss it as a tragic
accident. But Frank McBride and Bernard Taylor aren’t so
sure.

Teaming up with their neighbour, Ron Godsmark, their
suspicions centre on Joachim and Hannah Keller, the
Swiss couple who manage Leighton Hall, the wedding
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E: enquiries@starbooksales.com Bernard sends his granddaughter, Emma, on an

Orders: Troubador Publishing undercover mission, working at the hall as a waitress.
Tradeorders@troubador.co.uk Together they stumble upon a web of intrigue involving
0116 279 2299 fraud, smuggling and murder. Frank believes that he can
persuade his old colleagues in Customs and Excise to
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change investigate, but Bernard has something else entirely in
without notice. 09/11/2023
mind.
Crime deserves justice. Murder requires revenge.