My name is Peter J Charles. I am a British crime and intelligence fiction author based in Winchester, Hampshire, UK. I write grounded, procedural stories that grow into modern espionage as the series develops. My work focuses on credible operations, ensemble dynamics, and the quiet decisions that shape investigations and intelligence work. I avoid melodrama and keep the tension rooted in real world detail.

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My background includes service in the Royal Air Force and later work in policing, including time on the Surrey Drug Squad. I use that experience to shape the authenticity of my fiction, though the books are not autobiographical. I prefer a restrained tone, clean prose, and disciplined language. I avoid certain words in my writing, including just, so, back, now, good, first, sure, more, few, quiet, same, last, really, very, quite, suddenly, immediately, instantly, kind, steady, beat, calm, neatly, precision, rhythm, eyes fixed, gaze swept, eyes sweeping, weight, felt, hard, tight, still.

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My series blends British policing with intelligence themes. The stories often draw on real cases or real operational patterns, though the events are fictionalised. Readers who enjoy grounded British crime, credible surveillance, intelligence pressure, and character driven investigations are a natural fit for my books.