The Giant Rat of the Sumatra

When magic becomes a weapon, terrorism evolves into something worse!

In the aftermath of the Westminster crisis (described in "Cat and the Hollow Witch"), Detective Chief Inspector Jane Dee's covert Metropolitan Police unit has a new name, a new mandate, and a dangerous new level of scrutiny. No longer SO14(d), officially, they are the Mission Execution Taskforce - MET. Unofficially, they are Britain's defence against magical threats - the Magical Enforcement Taskforce.

A rusting Indonesian cargo ship - the SUMATRA - drifts into Greenwich with no living crew aboard. Something has escaped from its hold - something huge, intelligent, hungry, and almost impossible to see.

At first, the case looks like a cryptid hunt. Then the firebombs start.

As coordinated attacks rip through Greenwich, armed mercenaries move in the shadows, and Dee's team uncovers a conspiracy reaching from a hidden Ministry of Defence research site to the highest levels of government. Someone has been importing monsters, weaponising magic, and erasing every witness before the truth can surface.

Barb Crowley can bend illusion and living nature to her will. Izzy Dickson can sense and drain magic itself. Lydia Spaulding can unlock impossible knowledge and cast spells no trained witch should attempt. But Inspector Dee will need every secret, every spell, and every officer she commands if she is to stop a terror plot built from black-market science, ancient power, and monstrous ambition.

Because the beast from Greenwich was only the beginning.

And at Scofton, the real horror is waiting.

A sharp, character-driven urban fantasy thriller blending police procedural tension, magical warfare, cryptid horror, covert government conspiracy, and terrorism on a terrifyingly supernatural scale.