Singapore Blood
(2026)(The sixth book in the Ash Carter Near East Crime-Thriller series)
A novel by Murray Bailey
Singapore 1952
A city of colonial power, hidden vice, and brutal ambition.
Ex-military investigator Ash Carter has come to Singapore for the simple life but the island's underbelly has other plans. When he is pulled into a web of political secrets, corruption and shifting loyalties, Carter discovers that in a city built on secrets, the truth has a deadly price.
Caught between demands of the colonial administration and the lethal reach of local gangs, acts as mediator between the military and local CID, in a city teetering between colonial order and violent independence.
Ash Carter's mission is simple: find the killer of a soldier and locate the payroll. But when his investigation uncovers a conspiracy linking corrupt officials, Chinese triads and communist insurgents, Carter must navigate a city where loyalty shifts like monsoon winds. One wrong step means death.
"If you like gritty noir thrillers where the hero fights smarter, not harder, you'll burn through Singapore Blood in one sitting"
Genre: Mystery
A city of colonial power, hidden vice, and brutal ambition.
Ex-military investigator Ash Carter has come to Singapore for the simple life but the island's underbelly has other plans. When he is pulled into a web of political secrets, corruption and shifting loyalties, Carter discovers that in a city built on secrets, the truth has a deadly price.
Caught between demands of the colonial administration and the lethal reach of local gangs, acts as mediator between the military and local CID, in a city teetering between colonial order and violent independence.
Ash Carter's mission is simple: find the killer of a soldier and locate the payroll. But when his investigation uncovers a conspiracy linking corrupt officials, Chinese triads and communist insurgents, Carter must navigate a city where loyalty shifts like monsoon winds. One wrong step means death.
"If you like gritty noir thrillers where the hero fights smarter, not harder, you'll burn through Singapore Blood in one sitting"
Genre: Mystery
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