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"Well constructed and exciting, with plenty of strong dialogue and plot twists to keep the reader guessing, and probably guessing wrong." --Kirkus Reviews
"Magson offers up his usual taut, keep-'em-guessing thriller packed with action and unexpected twists, and guaranteed to keep espionage aficionados on the edge of their seats." --BOOKLIST Reviews
"... moves Harry's story along and will keep readers coming back for more."
--Publishers Weekly
"Magson offers up his usual taut, keep-'em-guessing thriller packed with action and unexpected twists, and guaranteed to keep espionage aficionados on the edge of their seats." --BOOKLIST Reviews
"... moves Harry's story along and will keep readers coming back for more."
--Publishers Weekly
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Format:Hardcover
Another good spy thriller, the third outing for Harry Tate. The premise of an agency mopping up disillusioned solders/deserters who may need help and could pay with a few military secrets is an excellent framework for this story. Plenty of twists and turns, with action and suspense.
A familiar set of characters return to be challenged, placed in danger, double crossed and left for dead. Leaves the reader wanting more!
A familiar set of characters return to be challenged, placed in danger, double crossed and left for dead. Leaves the reader wanting more!
Format:Hardcover
Harry Tate is a former MI5 officer who still has a `loose' attachment to the Security Services. So he was not unduly surprised to be contacted by an MI6 officer, one Richard Ballatyne, who wants him to do a job and in return he will return the favour. The favour being the whereabouts of one Henry Paulton, former Operations Director of MI5, the man who had posted Harry to Georgia and nearly succeeded in having him eliminated - Harry hasn't forgotten and is still keen to catch up with Paulton. But Ballatyne has another job for Harry - locating missing Military personnel, but not your average squaddies who are AWOL, these are personnel who carry important information that could be damaging if it falls into the wrong hands. He gives Harry a short list of six, the most important being one Vanessa Tan who has failed to report for her return flight to Afghanistan.
Locating missing people is one of Harry's skills, but he discovers that he is tasked with locating people who have been taken, or are in the process of being taken by a professional group called `The Protectory'. Not, as he later learns, a group to be crossed. But the sweetener is that Ballatyne says that Paulton is connected to the group.
As Harry tackles the list of missing military personnel he comes to the attention of the group and runs into their disposal personnel.
In tracking people down Harry has the assistance of his friend Rik Ferris, who still has his arm in a sling following a shooting. But even Rik cannot seem to get a handle on the whereabouts of Vanessa Tan. Soon matters escalate and Harry receives help from an unlikely source, one that Harry doesn't trust but one for which is nevertheless grateful.
In the 1970's and 1980's I was a great fan of spy books, particularly those by Palma Harcourt - I still have them all. In latter years they seemed to go out of vogue but just recently seem to be having a revival and this is one of the best.
Fast paced with some great dialogue this is one of those unputdownable books - the ones that keep you reading into the night. I loved it. Highly recommended.
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Lizzie Hayes
Locating missing people is one of Harry's skills, but he discovers that he is tasked with locating people who have been taken, or are in the process of being taken by a professional group called `The Protectory'. Not, as he later learns, a group to be crossed. But the sweetener is that Ballatyne says that Paulton is connected to the group.
As Harry tackles the list of missing military personnel he comes to the attention of the group and runs into their disposal personnel.
In tracking people down Harry has the assistance of his friend Rik Ferris, who still has his arm in a sling following a shooting. But even Rik cannot seem to get a handle on the whereabouts of Vanessa Tan. Soon matters escalate and Harry receives help from an unlikely source, one that Harry doesn't trust but one for which is nevertheless grateful.
In the 1970's and 1980's I was a great fan of spy books, particularly those by Palma Harcourt - I still have them all. In latter years they seemed to go out of vogue but just recently seem to be having a revival and this is one of the best.
Fast paced with some great dialogue this is one of those unputdownable books - the ones that keep you reading into the night. I loved it. Highly recommended.
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Lizzie Hayes
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