Don't believe in magic? Boy are you in for a shock.Convicted of a double homicide, the famous Wizard of Aus proves no cell can hold him, but his seemingly impossible prison break is more than a bid for freedom – he's got his sights set on vengeance – against the whole city.Darius Kane thinks it's a job for the police and he's got his own work cut out trying to track down a secret underworld character more elusive than smoke. Known only as the Djinn, Darius must stop her if he wants to keep living.However, when the wizard proves he can kill and vanish before the police can even react, can he really ignore the pleas for his involvement? Maybe, but when a new client enters the fray who might hold the key to identifying Darius's nemesis, there really is no choice but to take the case.Alongside renowned English sleuth, Patricia Fisher, and her team, Darius must fight to find the connection between the wizard, the Djinn, and a criminal overlord and he'd better do it fast as the clock is ticking and the city is set to explode. Steve has been writing for years without producing anything that he believed was worth reading. Is he overly critical of his work? Probably, but having taken five years to finish the first book he took only five months for the second and is now working on three more stories simultaneously. He describes his current experience as that of a storyteller with ideas falling uncontrollably out of his ears. He keeps a notepad on his person at all times in case another idea comes to him and can be found scribbling pretty much any time he comes to a stop.He lives not far from where his books are based, but although he was born and raised in Kent he spent most of this adult life as a soldier deployed to various points of the globe. Now retired from the military he has the world's most perfect son and a beautiful wife who is completely convinced his description of the single women in his book is the early stages of a mid-life crisis. It's not love, honest.Influenced by Jim Butcher, Stephen King, Kim Harrison, Derek Landy, Lee Child and Janet Evanovich to name a few, his work will always be a mix of action and thriller mixed with situational comedy. The central character's parents are in no way based on his own. Definitely, definitely not.
