President Down

by Terence Strong

Genres: Suspense

Synopsis

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 – and Mason needs the cash. But in the murky intelligence world of smoke and mirrors, nothing is necessarily what it seems. Hampered by inter-departmental rivalry and political back-stabbing, what begins as a routine surveillance operation escalates into a full-blown international crisis. As Mason and his team get drawn into the dangerous underground networks, lives are put at risk – and suddenly it all feels very up-close and personal. In a desperate race against time to uncover the identity and a major threat posed by the terrorist killers, Mason has to come to terms with the unthinkable: there must be a traitor within Britain’s security forces. As time is running out fast, 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. ‘Relentless energy from a man who knows his tradecraft, survival skills, muzzle velocities and conspiracy theory as well as anyone in the business’ Guardian BY THE AUTHOR OF THE TICK TOCK MAN and WORD OF WAR

Release date: November 29, 2017

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

Print pages: 528