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- Cover
- About the Author
- Acclaim for Frank Gardner’s Luke Carlton thrillers
- Also by Frank Gardner
- Dedication
- Epigraph
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- Acknowledgements
- THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
To Richard Walton, for sharing his expert knowledge of counter-terrorism policing.
To the Norwegian Arctic guides Stian Aker and Inge Solheim, for showing me the pristine beauty of Svalbard archipelago.
In the Colombian jungle, a body is found.
A man in his forties. He’s been stabbed and his right ear removed. In his pockets are a blood-stained notebook and a British passport. That much the local police know. What they don’t know is that Jeremy Benton worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service. And his murder is going to trigger a crisis.
MI6 need someone on the scene, and fast. Luke Carlton – ex-SBS commando, now under short-term contract to SIS – steps off a plane in Bogota and into a world of trouble. Because one of South America’s most powerful and ruthless drugs barons is bent on destroying everything – and everyone – Luke holds dear. And unless Luke gets to him first, all Hell is going to break loose …
‘Fast, taut, tense, accurate. A terrific read’
FREDERICK FORSYTH
‘Few thriller debuts possess the confidence and verve of Frank Gardner’s Crisis … a book of exhilarating panache’
SUNDAY TIMES
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Hidden from prying Western satellites, Iranian scientists work on a banned device.
They are acting on the orders of a renegade cell within Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose objective is to transform their country into a nuclear-armed nation, and so seal its domination of the Middle East.
Britain’s intelligence agencies know something is up. Someone on the inside is ready to hand over information – but then the rendezvous with SIS officer Luke Carlton goes bloodily wrong. Luke needs to be extracted. Fast.
Forced on to the back foot after that fiasco, MI6 sees an opportunity to recruit an individual with unique access to the IRGC hardliners. Luke is chosen to reel them in. Going into Iran undercover is dangerous enough, but then there’s a killing and a kidnapping and the British government is presented with a shocking ultimatum. With time running out, it seems only Luke can stop a cataclysmic new war in the Gulf …
‘Skilfully mixes knowledge garnered as the BBC’s security correspondent with breathless action’
THE TIMES
‘Outstanding’
SUNDAY TIMES
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On 6 June 2004, in a quiet suburb of Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the road, pleading for his life, a figure stood over him and pumped four more bullets into his body at point-blank range …
Against all the odds, Frank Gardner survived, and this is his remarkable account of the agonizing journey he’s taken – from being shot and left for dead to where he is today, partly paralysed but alive.