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Tony writes pacy contemporary thrillers. Exploring different themes, but all sharing thought-provoking plots and richly-painted characters.

Tony has now released his fifth book, The Unicorn, an action-packed espionage thriller set in London, New York and the Lebanon, featuring MI5 agent, Nadia Laroche, who first appeared in Sixty Minutes.

Sixty Minutes, is a contemporary thriller set over the one hour period before a potential suicide attack at the Natural History Museum in London.

Tony's debut novel, Best Eaten Cold – a dark, psychological thriller – has captured the imaginations of tens of thousands of people and continues to attract loyal readers and stunning reviews. The sequel, Cold Intent was released in 2018.

His second novel, The Old Orchard – a gripping family thriller – was published in November 2017.

Tony lives in Chichester and writes full-time. He is sixty-two and married with three children and seven grandchildren.

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The Unicorn now launched!

Ibrahim Abdel Hak is the Unicorn...

Lost in the mists and shadows of urban legend, he waits and builds his plans in the cold darkness.

Each time Ibrahim attacks, he leaves a trail of very real death and destruction in his wake.

The world’s intelligence services believe he's planning the worst atrocity yet. They think it will be soon. But they have no idea where or when the Unicorn will strike.

Nadia knows he's out there. She knows he's planning something terrible. Only she can stop him. Why won't they listen?

The Unicorn is now available from Amazon websites and bookshops worldwide

Previous Novels

Five strangers are drawn into a nail-biting race against time.

Hassan, Jim, Shuna, Dan and Nadia come from very different worlds. As the clock ticks away the minutes of a single hour on a July morning, fate draws all five together in a headlong rush towards disaster.

Tony Salter's latest novel leaves us guessing right up to the last page.

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Imagine someone wants to hurt you.

Someone you once knew, but have almost forgotten.

Now imagine they are clever, patient and won't stop.

It could be happening to you ...

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It was always too good to be true. Finding her, arresting her, proving her guilt … that should have been enough. It should have been, but a small voice, deep inside him, refused to be silenced. The voice which whispered the same words over and over – how even a jail sentence wouldn’t stop her.

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The Old Orchard

Finance Director, Alastair Johnson, is in trouble. He needs a lot of money, and he needs it soon.

His solution is completely out of character, and leaves his family torn in two.

But everything is not what it seems ...

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Upcoming

Tony is currently working on a historical novel, based on his grandmother’s diaries which catalogue her 1915 journey from Brighton to Harbin on the Trans-Siberian Express. 

He is also developing a series of illustrated children’s books set in Norway