Two Wrongs by Trevor Negus

Tom Naylor Trilogy – book one

🌟 Review Note:

This review is provided as part of the Virtual Book Tour hosted by Zooloo’s Book Tours which runs 13 – 19 October 2025. Follow along with the Book Tour Schedule. This review is for Two Wrongs, the first of the trilogy. My review for the next part will be published soon.

My sincere thanks to Zooloo’s Book Tours and Inkubator Books for inviting me to be part of this book tour and for providing a digital copy of the Tom Naylor Trilogy by Trevor Negus.

As always, this review reflects my honest thoughts.

About the book

Tom Naylor – a good cop with a deadly skill.

Nottingham 1990. Ex-paratrooper Tom Naylor is a sniper in the Special Operations Unit, the dedicated firearms response teams of the Nottinghamshire Police.

Each book in this gripping trilogy focuses on a single case –

In Two Wrongs, Naylor’s unit combats the warring drug gangs who are fighting for control of the city.

In The Root of All Evil, Naylor infiltrates a lethal gang of armed robbers, some of
whom are also ex-military.

In The Cause, Naylor plays a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with an elite IRA sniper who is on a mission to strike at the very heart of the British establishment.

Written by a former police firearms specialist, the Naylor trilogy is a must-read, combining absolutely riveting storytelling with an insider’s eye for authentic detail.

The Tom Naylor Trilogy by Trevor Negus
Published 21 September 2025 by Inkubator Books

You can find the book on Amazon and Goodreads

Who is Trevor Negus?

Trevor Negus is a retired Police Officer who spent 30 years working with Nottinghamshire Police. He worked both inner city and rural beats in uniform and spent the entire duration of the Miners’ Strike of 1984 on a Police Support Unit.

He then spent six years as an authorised firearms officer and was a sniper on the force’s Special Operations Unit. The last eleven years of his Police career were spent as a detective on the CID, where he was involved in numerous murder enquiries. During his time on the CID he was trained as a specialist interviewer, involved in the planning and interviews of murder suspects.

Trevor’s website can be found at https://www.trevornegus-author.com/

You can follow Trevor on social media over on Instagram and Facebook

My Review

Two Wrongs throws you straight into Nottingham’s criminal underworld in the 1980s, and right from the outset you can feel the authenticity running through every page. Trevor Negus writes with the authority of someone who has lived and breathed this world, and that insider knowledge gives the story a realism that crime fiction fans will love.

Tom Naylor, an ex-paratrooper now serving in the Special Operations Unit, is a character you trust immediately. He’s composed, capable and quietly intense – not a flashy action hero, but a professional who carries the weight of his role with conviction. I really liked him from the beginning and found him easy to follow, even as the story widened to include the wider dynamics of the unit and the criminal networks at play.

The plot centres on warring drug gangs fighting for control of Nottingham, and the tension escalates at a steady pace. What initially feels like a lot of information soon becomes one of the book’s greatest strengths. The level of detail isn’t there to overwhelm – it builds a world that feels operational, layered and lived-in. Once I settled into the rhythm of it, I found the depth fascinating and absorbing.

And I have to mention the sniper scene – I was genuinely holding my breath. It’s written with such precision and control that you can feel every moment of anticipation. The realism in both action and mindset made it one of the standout scenes of the book for me.

The writing is clean, grounded and easy to read once you’re in the flow. The pacing picks up as the story progresses, and by the midpoint I was completely invested. It’s clear that this first book lays the foundations for the wider trilogy, but it still stands firmly on its own as a gripping, fully formed story.

The storytelling is layered, the characters are compelling and the attention to detail elevates the whole reading experience. What I first thought might be too much information quickly revealed itself to be one of the book’s biggest strengths – it adds realism, richness and tension in all the right places. I’m moving straight into book two and I’m genuinely excited to see where the trilogy goes next.

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