Description
| Product ID: | 9780751544770 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | John Stratton |
| Title: | The Operative |
| Authors: | Author: Duncan Falconer |
| Page Count: | 448 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Grippingly authentic thriller by a former member of the elite Special Boat Services who is widely pipped to inherit the genre's crown from Andy McNab. In war-torn Iraq, Stratton''s closest friend is killed whilst on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child - Stratton''s godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles she is brutally murdered and her child placed in state custody. Stratton, rocked to his foundations by the killing, uncovers a FBI plot to hide the crime and sets off on a private operation of revenge that eventually pits him against one of the most powerful East European crime syndicates in America. Hunted by the CIA and FBI as well as a brutal army of Albanian mobsters and armed only with his wits and an extraordinary skill with explosives, Stratton relentlessly pursues his private war; a fight he suspects could be his last. Yet another enjoyable Falconer weave of thrill and action wrapped in the rich authenticity that defined his previous novels, taking the reader on a roller-coaster ride across half the globe to a nail-biting climax. |
| Imprint Name: | Sphere |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-10-07 |
