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  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448125425
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 98

The Veteran (Storycuts)



A canny lawyer finds himself acting for guilty men after a savage inner-city killing.

When an anonymous man is brutally murdered on a London council estate the police race to gather evidence against his killers. They have two men in custody and they know that they are guilty. But when a brilliant QC intervenes in their defence a startling and unsettling justice is delivered.

Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection The Veteran.

  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448125425
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 98

About the author

Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels, including The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, as well as short story collections and a memoir. A former Air Force pilot, and one-time print and television reporter for the BBC, he has had four movies and two television miniseries made from his works. He is the winner of three Edgar Awards, and in 2012 he won the Diamond Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association, a lifetime achievement award for sustained excellence. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.

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