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Afghanistan 2021. The Taliban takeover.
Surrounded and outnumbered by their Taliban attackers, a small group of Afghan special forces fights their way out of their base and races towards Kabul and the last of the flights leaving the country.
A team of seasoned SAS soldiers is deployed to Kabul to assist in extracting intelligence Assets for the MI6 Station there. But as the Taliban tighten their deadly noose around the city, the simple locate and recovery task soon becomes a lot more complicated.
And when a legendary Taliban commander arrives in Kabul and learns that there are special forces operating in his city, he knows there is only one thing to do: Hunt them down and kill them.
With hundreds of Taliban searching the city for them, the SAS team’s mission becomes one of survival and staying a step ahead of their hunters. And with the planned evacuation of Kabul descending into chaos, the team knows that if they don’t make it back to the airport fast, they won’t make it out at all.
Based around true events, A Day Ahead of the Devil is the latest action-packed thriller from the bestselling author of Asset Seven.
The CIA. The Iranians. The Russians. An agent running for his life…
Karim Ardavan knows he’s being followed. As a member of Iran’s elite Quds Force, he knows the signs all too well. But as an Asset for the CIA collecting intelligence on a secret Quds Force facility in the mountains, Karim can’t be caught. He needs to escape his watchers so he can trigger his exfil and get his information to his CIA Handler. Make it to the high passes of the Zagros mountains to have any hope of surviving.
When Vic Foley receives the signal that his Asset is on the run and bringing out vital Intel, the CIA officer implements the Asset’s exfil plan. With Washington’s reluctance to risk escalating hostilities within the region, Vic knows that he’ll have to make do with what little support he can find for himself.
In Syria, Master Sergeant ‘Ned’ Kelly is leading the fight against the last bastion of Islamic State when he receives the request to assist the CIA in recovering an Asset from the border of Iran and Iraq. No stranger to these deniable operations, Ned and his team of Delta Force operators deploy with Vic to the Iraqi side of the mountains to await the arrival of the Asset.
But the Asset is being hunted, and the hunters are getting closer. For the General in charge of the operation, the hunt is personal. His secret Quds facility at risk of compromise if the Asset makes it to his CIA Handlers. But the General has allies that he can reach out to help him. Allies who hate the Americans even more than he hates the traitor Ardavan. Russian allies…
And when Vic learns the nature of the information his Asset is bringing out, he is left with no choice; the team must go into Iran and get him. As the elite forces race against time and each other to get to the Asset first, the Zagros mountains become the front line in a deadly cat and mouse game for the ultimate prize:
Asset Seven
Belfast 1973
A team of undercover soldiers deploy on an operation into the heart of republican West Belfast unaware of the horrific catastrophe that awaits them.
Belfast 1995
The IRA struggles to convince their members to maintain the fragile ceasefire. When its London bombing cells are compromised and arrested, the leadership knows there can be only one reason for such a defeat; an informer in their midst. A Tout.
As the top echelons of the IRA hunt for the informer, the intelligence agencies continue with their covert operations against the terror group. For Marcus Vaughan, a new operator with the Special Intelligence Group, the dark world of the Dirty War is everything he trained for and more. Running agents and surveillance against IRA targets, Marcus embraces his new calling.
But when the legacy of a long-forgotten operation comes crashing into the present, the war suddenly becomes personal for Marcus. Very personal. And as he begins to uncover a web of treachery and deceit stretching back decades, Marcus soon realizes that the dark forces involved will stop at nothing to cover their tracks.
From black operations in the back streets of Belfast to the shadow world of spooks and spies, Sins of the Fathers takes the reader to the heart of the undercover war in Northern Ireland.
‘Cracking read…a modern Harry’s Game…’
‘A brilliant story that feels very real.’
‘Action-packed and authentic: Mack does it again!’
‘Races along. Can see this being a movie.’
‘Gripping story and utterly realistic as anyone who has spent any time in Northern Ireland will know.’
‘Spooks, snipers, touts and terrorists: Classic Mack territory!’
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones…
London. Cardiff. Edinburgh.
The worst terrorist attacks that the UK has seen.
A country in turmoil, a government in disarray.
Intelligence agencies with no leads or suspects.
Lovat Reid, a veteran covert operator with the Special Intelligence Group, is tasked to help track down the mastermind behind the attacks. With his partner Nadia, an officer from the Special Reconnaissance Regiment, they soon realise that they are dealing with an individual the likes of which they have not seen before.
When another atrocity is carried out, the entire weight of the Intelligence agencies and Special Forces is thrown behind the effort to find the terrorist responsible. But for Lovat, something isn’t quite right. Suspecting a dangerous power-play between the agencies, Lovat digs a little deeper into the background of the terrorist suspect.
And is stunned by what he finds.
With a race against time to halt the next attack, Lovat and Nadia find themselves fighting a war on two fronts as they strive to uncover the depth of deception while hunting the master terrorist.
From the killing fields of Kandahar to the back streets of London, the consequences of a secret assassination program are brutally levelled against an unsuspecting British public.
An idyllic Scottish village.
A small team of rural Police Officers.
A violent stranger who won’t talk.
Police Constable Tess Cameron loves her job and the coastal village of St Cyrus. With her Sergeant due for retirement, Tess has her sights set on making detective. Life is good.
When she arrests a violent stranger who refuses to provide any details of his identity, Tess suspects that all is not as it seems. Using all her investigative skills, she learns that the stranger is a disgraced, former Special Forces soldier.
When communications and electricity to the village are cut, the severe snow-storm is blamed for the situation. Tess however, feels that there may be another, more sinister reason, for their isolation.
Because the stranger has friends.
And they want him back.
Whatever the cost.
In the darkest night of winter, Tess and her fellow Police Officers find themselves facing an elite team of killers determined to rescue their leader. And Tess knows that if she is to survive the night, she has only one choice:
Fight.
First Blood meets The Bill in this exciting new thriller from the author of Only the Dead.
Only the dead have seen the end of war…
War torn Lbya.
Today…
In the chaos of conflict, Sergeant Finn Douglas, a veteran Royal Marine Commando, is forced to commit a terrible act to save the lives of his men. Haunted by his actions and devastated by the loss of his family to a terrorist attack, Finn turns his back on war and killing and escapes to a wilderness off the coast of Scotland.
When a team of Military Police are despatched to track Finn down and bring him to justice, it provides one of the policemen with the opportunity to redress an old grudge against the Marines.
And he will stop at nothing to see this through.
When a gang of violent wildlife-poachers shatter his sanctuary, Finn is forced to intervene to save the lives of the people and animals he has come to admire. But his actions provide a lead for the Military Police and incur the wrath of the poachers’ psychotic leader.
In the mid-winter, mountain wilderness, the manhunt becomes a race against time between the forces of law and order and a vicious murderer determined to take his revenge.
Haunted by grief and trauma…
Hiding and surviving in the wild…
Hunted like an animal by both sides of the law…
How will Finn Douglas survive?
A moving and thrilling story that takes the reader from the war zones of North Africa to the mountain wilderness of Scotland in a novel that has been described as ‘…definitely the next big thing for NetFlix…‘
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