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  • Published: 25 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9780718181413
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $27.99

The Damage Done

Inspector McLean 6




The Damage Done is the sixth gripping instalment in the best-selling and critically acclaimed Inspector McLean series by James Oswald.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Damage Done by James Oswald, read by Ian Hanmore.

Tony McLean finds himself caught up in a Vice Squad raid that goes disastrously awry, and that will have repercussions that not only threaten McLean's career, but also his life. Not a man who lets coincidences pass by unnoticed, McLean begins to pull at strings he's been told in no uncertain terms to leave well alone. It quickly becomes apparent to McLean that he is on the brink of unmasking a cover up that has spanned decades, and reaches into the highest echelons of society, and perhaps more worryingly, the very police force he serves.

  • Published: 25 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9780718181413
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $27.99

About the author

James Oswald

James Oswald is the author of the Detective Inspector McLean series of crime novels. Currently there are two available, Natural Causes and The Book of Souls. He has also written an epic fantasy series, The Ballad of Sir Benfroin (under the name J D Oswald) as well as comic scripts and short stories.

In his spare time he runs a 350 acre livestock farm in North East Fife, where he raises pedigree Highland Cattle and New Zealand Romney Sheep.

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Praise for The Damage Done

Creepy, gritty and gruesome

Sunday Mirror

Crime fiction's next big thing

The Sunday Telegraph

The new Ian Rankin

Daily Record

Oswald's writing is in a class above most in this genre

Daily Express

The hallmarks of Val McDermid or Ian Rankin: it's dark, violent, noirish

The Herald

Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers

Daily Mail

Fifty Shades of Hay

The Times

Hugely enjoyable

The Mirror

Literary sensation . . . James' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of E L James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series

Daily Mail