SET TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN. Like Michael Connellyâs Bosch, John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth â" and expose a deadly enemy.
Thereâs nothing more dangerous than a man who can fall no further â¦
âAyliffe delivers a taut, nail-biting page-turner, stamping his mark on the modern day Australian thriller.â Better Reading
He had never killed anyone who hadnât deserved it. The end always justified the means. He didnât need forgiveness. He needed justification. The greater good.
Battered war correspondent John Bailey is a man living on the edge. Heâs haunted by nightmares of being kidnapped and tortured in Iraq and heâs drinking too much to drown the memories. As he battles to get his life back together, a story breaks that will force him back into the spotlight â" and into the crosshairs of a deadly international player.
When a beautiful prostitute is found murdered in her luxury apartment, Bailey is ordered to cover the story by The Journalâs editor and his old friend, Gerald Summers, because he canât trust anyone else.
One of the victimâs clients, a key advisor to the Defence Minister, is chief suspect in her murder and heâs on the run. When he contacts Bailey, claiming to have information that will bring down the government, the stakes become deadly. To complicate matters, the investigating police detective is the woman Bailey walked out on a decade ago.
When a ruthless CIA fixer turns up, followed by a murderous Chinese agent hot on his trail, Bailey realises he has stumbled onto the story of a lifetime â" one that he may not live to tell.
The brilliant first book in Tim Ayliffe's bestselling John Bailey series. Bailey's adventures in The Greater Good, State of Fear and The Enemy Within will be adapted for the screen by CJZ Productions, Australia's largest independently owned production company.
Praise for The Greater Good
âA brilliantly written character starring in cracking crime thrillerâ Herald Sun
âA fun and exhilarating political crime thriller that is guaranteed to electrify and entertain in good measure.ââ The Unseen Library
âReaders will not fail to enjoy the ride from start to finish.â Good Reading
âA crime thriller with the lot: murder, deceit, corruption and a hint of romance ⦠Ayliffe takes you deep inside the worlds of politics and the media, with a heavy dose of international intrigue thrown in.â Michael Rowland
Ayliffe delivers a taut, nail-biting page-turner, stamping his mark on the modern day Australian thriller.â Better Reading
âIf Rake were a journalist, with a talent that equals his capacity to survive being beaten up, Bailey would be him.â Julia Baird
âAn absolute cracker of a thriller.â Chris Uhlmann
Praise for State of Fear
âAnother brilliantly crafted thriller from Ayliffe that fits perfectly in todayâs worrying world ⦠Verdict: Get this guy on TVâ Herald Sun
Praise for Enemy Within
âA breathlessly written book, ripped from todayâs headlines, this is a cracking read that blurs the line between fact and fiction. More please.â Michael Robotham
'A cracking yarn told at breakneck speed. I couldn't put it down.' Chris Hammer
âSharp, gritty, sophisticated. Ayliffeâs criminal world is terrifyingly real.â Candice Fox
