About What Comes Before:
This book is not only a stand-alone thriller it is also the newly released third book in the Heirs and Descendants Series, being published on the 4th of January this year.
The first book in this series; The Desolate Garden, was under a paid option to become a thirty-million-dollar-film, until, unfortunately, the option failed to materialise when it reached the distribution stage. However, not all was lost!
The publicity Mr Kemp received: an appearance on the BBC nationwide news programme, plus an article in a London evening newspaper, resulted in Mr Kemp being invited by Waterstone’s Bookshops on a countrywide tour signing that first novel of his.
This novel, ‘What Comes Before,’ carries that story, first told in The Desolate Garden and then Percy Crow, forward, to when——
Lord Harry Paterson, Sheriff of the County of Yorkshire, is coerced back to work for the British Security Services after witnessing the macabre death of a beautiful, young woman at a grouse shoot hosted by his friend and ex-fellow army officer, Viscount Winston Bottomly.
Unbeknownst to Harry, the woman – the Viscount’s fiancée – had stolen a top-secret file from the French consulate in London, containing information about an innovative encryption method called post quantum signal cryptography. With the power to endanger every communication method in use between allied nations, the document – in the wrong hands – could completely change the balance of power between East and West.
To avoid a technological threat to world safety, Harry is instructed to find the file and eliminate all those who have seen its contents. But does he still have what it takes to get the job done?
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Author Bio:
Daniel Kemp’s introduction to the world of espionage and mystery happened at an early age when his father was employed by the War Office in Whitehall, London, at the end of WWII. However, it wasn’t until after his father died that he showed any interest in anything other than himself!
On leaving academia he took on many roles in his working life: a London police officer, mini-cab business owner, pub tenant and licensed London taxi driver, but never did he plan to become a writer. Nevertheless, after a road traffic accident left him suffering from PTSD and effectively—out of paid work for four years, he wrote and self-published his first novel —The Desolate Garden. Within three months of publication, that book was under a paid option to become a $30 million film. The option lasted for five years until distribution became an insurmountable problem for the production company.
All seven of his novels are now published by Next Chapter with the seventh—The Widow’s Son, completing a three-book series alongside: What Happened In Vienna, Jack? and Once I Was A Soldier. Under the Next Chapter publishing banner, The Desolate Garden went on to become a bestselling novel in World and Russian Literature in 2017. The following year, in May 2018, his book What Happened In Vienna, Jack? was a number-one bestseller on four separate Amazon sites: America, the UK, Canada, and Australia.