Christopher Hepworth

When thirteen-year-old Alex Faulkner stumbles across a hidden chamber in the attic of his Yorkshire school, Red House, he finds a skeleton, a trunk, and a locket containing two portraits – one of a woman from the seventeenth century, the other bearing his own face. Decades later, Nigel Pride – the head boy who once ruled the school through fear...

When international negotiator Sam Jardine joins Napier & Beckett, the pharmaceutical company founded by his ancestor two centuries ago, he believes he's found his place in the world. But after a series of brutal murders, Sam discovers his employer is hiding a deadly secret. Napier & Beckett has resurrected Berserker, a battlefield drug that turns soldiers into fearless killing machines....