Nine Lives (Paperback)

NINE LIVES
A novel by Paul Smith

Manchester gave him violence.
The Army taught him how to use it.

Bosnia showed him what war really looks like. Northern Ireland showed him how quietly it can be done. By his early twenties, he’s recruited into The Det — a secret special forces unit used for jobs that can’t be acknowledged. No paperwork. No protection. If it goes wrong, they deny you. If it goes right, it never happened.

What begins as deniable kills for the spooks drags him deeper — into mercenary contracts, gangland violence, and a life where survival costs more each time.

He should have died nine times — bullets, bombs, fire, himself.

Until one girl reaches into the wreckage
and saves him from losing his last life.

Cold. Honest. Uncomfortable to read. Relentlessly British.

Nine Lives is for readers who know the war doesn’t end when the fighting stops.

👉 If you like your war fiction real enough to leave a mark, this one is for you.