President down
By: Terence Strong
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780753182208; 9780753182215
Subjects: Fiction; Private investigators; Intelligence service; Terrorism; Presidents; Assassination attempts; Qaida (Organization)
Description: Former intelligence officer and one-time instructor at the British Army School of Sniping, Phil Mason is struggling to make ends meet as a private investigator when he's contacted by his former M15 liaison officer. The overstretched security service needs all the help it can get hunting down members of al-Qaeda terror cells in the UK - and Mason needs the cash. But in the murky intelligence world of smoke and mirrors, nothing is what it seems.
Table of contents: title: "Former intelligence officer and one-time instructor at the British Army School of Sniping, Phil Mason is struggling to make ends meet as a private investigator when he's contacted by his former MI5 liaison officer. The overstretched security service needs all the help it can get hunting down members of al-Qaeda terror cells in the UK; title: and Mason needs the cash." "But in the murky intelligence world of smoke and mirrors, nothing is what it seems. As a routine surveillance operation escalates into a full-blown international crisis, Mason must come to terms with the unthinkable: there must be a traitor within Britain's security forces." "Entering a desperate race against time to identify and avert a major terrorist threat, Mason must hastily re-hone his old counter-sniper skills as he returns to the business he swore he had left behind forever. The killing game."; title: BOOK JACKET. 28-Jun-10 inv to come.