Operation WetFish Book 38: Hard Work Never Killed Anyone

by Adam Carter

Police incompetence, witness intimidation, expensive lawyers. There are many reasons the guilty walk free of court. For Operation WetFish, a legal and entirely unorthodox department of the London police, the courts never have the final say. Frame-ups, alerting rival gangs or simply making the bad guys disappear … Operation WetFish employs a variety of methods to clean up the mistakes of the courts.

Charles Baronaire, Jeremiah and Detective Jen Thompson live for the thrill of making the streets safe. But they each have other things on their minds. They’re stronger, faster, more agile than ordinary human beings; they can focus their minds to alter people’s perceptions, can establish command over nature’s baser creatures. And they have insatiable appetites for human blood.

When Thompson’s girlfriend is robbed at gunpoint, she goes on a one-woman rampage to put the gunman in the ground. Blundering into another department’s operation, her actions threaten to destroy months of hard work. Thompson’s fury peaks when she discovers Jeremiah at the gunman’s house and begins to suspect he may be the true threat to her girlfriend.

On a different assignment, Detective Foster and Constable Brown are captured by human traffickers and tortured in a secluded warehouse. Buying time and working to save one another, their only hope comes in the form of a fellow detective working undercover. Being physically and psychologically abused, the two women must do everything to save themselves, knowing they still have a job to complete.

295 pages, Paperback

Published September 8, 2024

About the author

I like to tell stories. Sometimes they have to be big, sometimes they work better small. I like to write serials which can be read without reading all the ones which came before. There's nothing more off-putting than a book you can't understand! I work in as many genres as possible and read anything I can get my hands on, but have an especial love of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alexandre Dumas. They both understood stories should be fun. Primarily I enjoy exploring characters; and the best thing about continuing fiction is gradually changing characters with whom the reader can laugh and cry and love and hate. And finally I think every book has room for humour, especially when it's inappropriate.