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The Secret Service (Linford Mystery) [Large Print] (Paperback)

by Rafe McGregor (Author)
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  • Paperback: 164 pages
  • Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd; Large type edition edition (May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1847822215
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847822215
  • Product Dimensions: 18.3 x 12.7 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Special Branch and the CIA descend on the spa town of Buxton to recruit a retired Secret Service officer. Jackson's mission: to foil Operation Condor - a top secret plan conceived by the East German Stasi in the Cold War, and now in the hands of al-Qaeda - by eliminating three sleepers. His first kill is clinical. Then, poised for the second, he finds himself the target of a Secret Service assassin and a Special Branch ambush. After a desperate escape, he flees to London to contact a former colleague at the South African embassy. There Jackson discovers that his only chance to stop Condor is to find out which student at a secret police school in Pomerania passed the plan to al-Qaeda. Double-crossed a second time, he establishes the identity of the traitor and escapes to Dublin, where he tracks the man to a Caribbean island. In Barbados, Jackson must outwit the traitor, the CIA, and the Secret Service. Meanwhile, in England, Special Branch eagerly await his return... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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Special Branch and the CIA descend on the spa town of Buxton to recruit a retired Secret Service officer. Jackson's mission: to foil Operation Condor - a top secret plan conceived by the East German Stasi in the Cold War, and now in the hands of al-Qaeda - by elminating three sleepers. His first kill is clinical. Then, poised for the second, he finds himself the target of a Secret Service assassin and a Special Branch ambush. After a desperate escape, he flees to London to contact a former colleague at the South African embassy. There Jackson discovers that his only chance to stop Condor is to find out which student at a secret police school in Pomerania passed the plan to al-Qaeda. Double-crossed a second time, he establishes the identity of the traitor and escapes to Dublin, where he tracks the man to a Caribbean island. In Barbados Jackson must outwit the traitor, the CIA, and the Secret Service. Meanwhile, in England, Special Branch eagerly await his return… --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Non-Stop Thrill, 4 April 2006
This review is from: The Secret Service (Paperback)
If The Secret Policeman was part-mystery, part-thriller, there is no doubt about The Secret Service: it is a thrill-a-page-a-minute non-stop page-turner. Picking up ten years after the previous novella left off, The Secret Service sees the return of Captain Jackson, now retired to the Peak District after several years with the South African Secret Service. But his past sins and skills come to haunt him as he is recruited by the CIA to wash some dirty laundry for them.
The pace is breakneck and the story moves from Buxton to Colchester, Aberdeen, London, Dublin, and Barbados before coming to rest back in England. Once again their is a characteristic McGregor twist in the final chapter, although not as shocking as his last.
This time the short, novella format really suits the story, and the characterisation, pace, and plot are compelling from beginning to end. Some interesting references to the STASI for Cold War buffs as well.
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