John Milton · #27

Dope

Mark Dawson

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John Milton has spent years trying to save strangers. This time, he might be too late.

Daniel Broome is a desperate man.

His daughter is in trouble, the bills are mounting and the people who are supposed to help have failed him. When desperation drives him to commit a series of bank robberies, he crosses paths with John Milton.

Milton knows what it means to make a bad decision for the right reasons. He also knows when something doesn’t add up.

What begins as an attempt to help a frightened father soon leads him into a world where addiction is profitable, vulnerable people are commodities and seemingly respectable men have built fortunes from misery. The deeper Milton digs, the more dangerous the people behind it become.

Then Daniel’s daughter is taken.

The price for getting her back is something Milton has stolen from a man who will do anything to recover it. Milton agrees to the exchange.

But what happens next changes everything.

There are some things John Milton can forgive.

And some things he can’t.

DOPE is the latest explosive thriller in the million-selling John Milton series from Mark Dawson.

Published
November 1, 2026
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Mark Dawson

Mark Dawson was born in Lowestoft, in the UK. He has worked as a DJ, a door-to-door ice cream seller, factory hand and club promoter. He eventually trained as a lawyer and worked for ten years in the City of London and Soho, firstly pursuing money launderers around the world and then acting for celebrities suing newspapers for libel. He is presently writing three series. The USA Today and Audible bestselling John Milton books involve a disgruntled British assassin who is trying – without much success – to put his past behind him. In order to atone for the blood on his hands he has decided to help those in need. The Beatrix Rose series…