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The wait is almost over. Joe Hunter 10 is just over 24 hours away from publication now. On Thursday 4th June the hardcover, Ebook and trade print paperback will be published by Hodder and Stoughton, and on general sale where all good books are sold.

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THE DEVIL'S ANVIL - Joe Hunter 10 - by Matt Hilton

Accepting the task of protecting Billie Womack is a no-brainer for ex-counterterrorist soldier Joe Hunter, but it comes with its own set of complications. 

Billie's husband, Richard, stole thirty million dollars from some violent people. He apparently died in a car crash with Billie's daughter, Nicola, during a desperate attempt to elude his pursuers. But his enemies don't believe him dead. They think he escaped the plunge into the icy river that killed Nicola and has now decided to come back for the money. If he's alive, they believe he'll contact Billie. 

It doesn't take long for the bad guys to arrive at her remote farmhouse. Soon she and Joe are fugitives. Dead or alive, Richard's fate means nothing to Hunter, but he promises to do everything in his power to protect the grieving mother. Even if it means taking a bullet for her, it's a price he'll pay. 

It's a pledge he will come to regret, as he learns that killers are forged on the Devil's anvil.

The Devil's Anvil is Nigh

The Devil's Anvil - the tenth staggering Joe Hunter thriller - will soon hit the shelves and E-readers far and wide. It's just a little over a fortnight until the official publication date on 4th June 2015. I know some of my readers have been eagerly anticipating Hunter's return, being fifteen months since we last saw him in The Lawless Kind. I hope the wait has been worth it.

Available for pre-order now on Kindle and in hardcover 

The DEVIL'S ANVIL by Matt Hilton

Accepting the task of protecting Billie Womack is a no-brainer for ex-counterterrorist soldier Joe Hunter, but it comes with its own set of complications. 


Billie's husband, Richard, stole thirty million dollars from some violent people. He apparently died in a car crash with Billie's daughter, Nicola, during a desperate attempt to elude his pursuers. But his enemies don't believe him dead. They think he escaped the plunge into the icy river that killed Nicola and has now decided to come back for the money. If he's alive, they believe he'll contact Billie. 


It doesn't take long for the bad guys to arrive at her remote farmhouse. Soon she and Joe are fugitives. Dead or alive, Richard's fate means nothing to Hunter, but he promises to do everything in his power to protect the grieving mother. Even if it means taking a bullet for her, it's a price he'll pay. 


It's a pledge he will come to regret, as he learns that killers are forged on the Devil's anvil.

No Going Back for Joe Hunter

Loving the cover for Joe Hunter seven 'No Going Back' which will be published February 16th 2012.

New Joe Hunter Site

http://joehunterbooks.wordpress.com/

Folks, I have taken the decision to close down my sister blog Joe Hunter's Fixers as it was not being used as I would have wished. But all is not lost, it has been reborn Phoenix-like as a new Wordpress site aptly named JOE HUNTER BOOKS.

I will be transferring some of the better posts from the defunct Fixers site across there, and adding lots of new Joe Hunter stuff.

This is to separate Joe-centric news from all the general writing and rigmarole that goes on here. I hope you'll visit and make it a regular stopping off point along during your browsing.

See all you Fixers across there, OK?

The end is nigh...or is it? Nah! For Joe Hunter it's all steam ahead.

Something just struck me hard!

No it wasn't a phantom missile launched from a nuclear submarine off the Californian coast (anyone been following the news?) but the realisation that it's the second week of November already. Not only that but it's the second week of November 2010. We are only a few weeks away from the cusp of 2011. Can anyone believe it? It seems like no time since we were all anticipating the New Millenium, and all the doomsday stories were doing the rounds. Remember the Millenium Bug that was supposed to crash all of our computers, revert us back to the end of the nineteenth century or even the dark ages, or cause a chain reaction that would annihilate the entire world in a thermo-nuclear holocaust?

Now that the Noughties are about to end, and we enter the Teenies it brings to my mind the new doomsday prophesies (OK, they're not new if you ask a Mayan) and that the world will end in just over two years time in December 2012. Blooming typical, isn't it? I wait all these years to achieve my dream as a published author and then the world is going to come to a cataclysmical ending!

Not that I buy into the stories, mind you.

But just in case there is any truth in it, I'd better get a move on with my writing because (here's the real reason for this post), I can now announce that Joe Hunter will continue and I have agreed  to deliver books 8 and 9 in the series to my UK publisher, Hodder and Stoughton.

I am over the moon at the prospect, and I hope that you, my readers, are too.

So, between now and doomsday you can watch out for the upcoming Blood and Ashes (JH 5), Dead Men's Harvest (JH 6) and No Going Back (JH 7 - working title), and - hoping those Mayans were just blowing hot air - books eight and nine shortly afterwards.

Oh, and there's also good news for my followers over in the USA: my publisher there - the esteemed William Morrow and Company - have picked up Cut and Run and will be following the current three book run as well.

So, you can count on Joe for many more adventures to come, and nothing short of a direct nuclear strike will stop me from bringing his tales to the page.

Now...where did that mysterious missile go? Uh...