I had watched him die again and again and again, until my head was full of a silent scream that stayed with me in my dreams. I had watched him die a hundred times because one of the young men in the dock had filmed it on his phone, the small screen shaking with mirth, rocking with laughter, the picture sharp in the clear light of a March evening.

I had watched him come out of their modest house in his pyjamas on a soft spring evening, a middle-aged man wearing carpet slippers, wanting to do only what was right, wanting to do nothing more than what was decent and good, wanting – above all – to protect his family, and I had watched the three young men who now stood in the dock knock him to the ground and kick him to death.

We were there for the man she had been married to for nearly twenty years, a man I had never known in life, although I had watched him die perhaps a hundred times. I stood up, never letting go of the hand of the woman next to me. We sat in Court One at the Old Bailey and we waited for justice. And discover that the lust for revenge starts very close to home. But before The Hanging Club is confronted, Max Wolfe must learn some painful truths about the fragile line between good and evil, innocence and guilt, justice and retribution. The search will take Max from squalid backstreets, where religious fanaticism breeds, to mansions in mourning and all the way to the secret rooms of power where decisions are weighed about life and death. But do these rogue hangmen crave true justice-or just blood?Īs the bodies pile up and violence explodes all over the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe-dog lover, single parent, defender of the weak-embarks on his most dangerous investigation yet, hunting a righteous gang of vigilante killers who many believe to be heroes. Sentenced to death is the gang member who abused dozens of vulnerable girls, the wealthy drunk driver who mowed down a child, the drug addict who put a pensioner in a coma and the hate preacher calling for the murder of British troops. Hanging Club by Tony ParsonsHanging Club by Tony Parsons is book #3 in the Max Wolfe Series (Available November 1, 2016).Ī band of vigilante executioners roam the hot summer nights, abducting evil men who they judge unworthy of living and hanging them by the neck until dead.

The Hanging Club by Tony Parsons