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BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOOD
Some secrets burn too bright to bury.When journalist Milo Wolfe receives a funeral invitation for a soldier he’s never met, it feels like a mistake. Until the broken phone arrives—containing fifty-six seconds of erased video footage.
Footage showing a British soldier—Samuel Harper—executed. Not by terrorists. But by his own.
The official story? Harper died in a wildfire.
The truth? He refused to follow an order too monstrous to obey.
As Milo digs into a conspiracy buried beneath layers of lies, he uncovers a chain of mysterious deaths—all connected to one covert operation the government will do anything to erase: Operation Balqis. Now Milo is in the crosshairs. The deeper he gets, the more dangerous the game becomes—for him, for the whistleblower hacker he’s working with, and for Harper’s husband, who just wants to know why the man he loved never came home.
From London’s rainy streets to Yemen’s war-torn shadows, this is the story of a man trying to tell the truth in a world that’s been programmed to ignore it.
‘A thriller with teeth. Think le Carré updated for the age of deepfakes and data leaks.’
‘Every page bristles with tension and purpose.’
For fans of Greg Rucka, Body of Lies, and the angry spirit of The Constant Gardener, Blood Will Have Blood is a searing political thriller with a human heart—where the stakes aren’t just global, but deeply personal.
Praise for STEVEN SAVILE:
'A brilliant storyteller' SARAH PINBOROUGH
'Oh boy, this is going to keep you up at night, or abandoning everything else to race through the pages' Peterborough Telegraph
'Throws out a great hook and then twists and turns its way to a heartstopping climax' STEPHEN GALLAGHER
'Utterly gripping' Crime Podcast FM
'Grabs the reader from the very first page - and never lets go' DAILY MAIL
'Taut and properly disturbing. . . Impressive' The Critic
'A gripping, twisty and beautifully written debut thriller... a writer to watch.' Irish Independent
'Steven Savile has the gift.' GRAHAM MASTERTON, Edgar Award and Bram Stoker Award-winner
'Scary conspiracy thriller...Clever.' Publishers Weekly
'Savile’s storytelling is riveting. He keeps to the plot, sparing readers the insipid backstories that often weigh down global thrillers.' Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Genre: Thriller
Some secrets burn too bright to bury.When journalist Milo Wolfe receives a funeral invitation for a soldier he’s never met, it feels like a mistake. Until the broken phone arrives—containing fifty-six seconds of erased video footage.
Footage showing a British soldier—Samuel Harper—executed. Not by terrorists. But by his own.
The official story? Harper died in a wildfire.
The truth? He refused to follow an order too monstrous to obey.
As Milo digs into a conspiracy buried beneath layers of lies, he uncovers a chain of mysterious deaths—all connected to one covert operation the government will do anything to erase: Operation Balqis. Now Milo is in the crosshairs. The deeper he gets, the more dangerous the game becomes—for him, for the whistleblower hacker he’s working with, and for Harper’s husband, who just wants to know why the man he loved never came home.
From London’s rainy streets to Yemen’s war-torn shadows, this is the story of a man trying to tell the truth in a world that’s been programmed to ignore it.
‘A thriller with teeth. Think le Carré updated for the age of deepfakes and data leaks.’
‘Every page bristles with tension and purpose.’
For fans of Greg Rucka, Body of Lies, and the angry spirit of The Constant Gardener, Blood Will Have Blood is a searing political thriller with a human heart—where the stakes aren’t just global, but deeply personal.
Praise for STEVEN SAVILE:
'A brilliant storyteller' SARAH PINBOROUGH
'Oh boy, this is going to keep you up at night, or abandoning everything else to race through the pages' Peterborough Telegraph
'Throws out a great hook and then twists and turns its way to a heartstopping climax' STEPHEN GALLAGHER
'Utterly gripping' Crime Podcast FM
'Grabs the reader from the very first page - and never lets go' DAILY MAIL
'Taut and properly disturbing. . . Impressive' The Critic
'A gripping, twisty and beautifully written debut thriller... a writer to watch.' Irish Independent
'Steven Savile has the gift.' GRAHAM MASTERTON, Edgar Award and Bram Stoker Award-winner
'Scary conspiracy thriller...Clever.' Publishers Weekly
'Savile’s storytelling is riveting. He keeps to the plot, sparing readers the insipid backstories that often weigh down global thrillers.' Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Genre: Thriller
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