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Author: Paul Purnell
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1786232723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Escape from Kazakhstan lands James Ballantyne in a Russian prison. What seems to be an easy way out turns into a dead end. Only the charm of Ocksana Petrova, his girlfriend, gets him away from a penal colony and back to London. But he has to pay the price by agreeing to infiltrate an international conspiracy known as 'The Tontine.' His boss at the Foreign Office details him to identify the leading members and steal the Matrix which is the secret weapon they mean to use to disrupt Oil Supplies to Europe. He is sent to Romania for an undisclosed objective. It turns out to be the assassination of a rival member. The team travels together and when the killing is set up Ballantyne cannot bring himself to shoot in cold blood. He has to manoeuvre to avoid taking the shot and comes under suspicion. Can he escape discovery? He offers to undertake more work for the group to shield himself. Among hired mercenaries and professional killers, he moves through the underworld of Paris, Malta and Italy. An accidental slip by a Foreign Office clerk reveals his true identity to one of the gang masters and Ballantyne is forced to kill to protect his own life. From then on he puts aside his misgivings and is prepared to do whatever is necessary to finish the job. He finds himself in a whirlwind of violence and treachery. The climax comes when the most powerful Tontine member Count Fosco plans to use the Matrix to eliminate the others. How can James stop him? The book closes with James Ballantyne taking his own special revenge against international treachery.
Author: Paul Purnell
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1786232723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Book Description
Escape from Kazakhstan lands James Ballantyne in a Russian prison. What seems to be an easy way out turns into a dead end. Only the charm of Ocksana Petrova, his girlfriend, gets him away from a penal colony and back to London. But he has to pay the price by agreeing to infiltrate an international conspiracy known as 'The Tontine.' His boss at the Foreign Office details him to identify the leading members and steal the Matrix which is the secret weapon they mean to use to disrupt Oil Supplies to Europe. He is sent to Romania for an undisclosed objective. It turns out to be the assassination of a rival member. The team travels together and when the killing is set up Ballantyne cannot bring himself to shoot in cold blood. He has to manoeuvre to avoid taking the shot and comes under suspicion. Can he escape discovery? He offers to undertake more work for the group to shield himself. Among hired mercenaries and professional killers, he moves through the underworld of Paris, Malta and Italy. An accidental slip by a Foreign Office clerk reveals his true identity to one of the gang masters and Ballantyne is forced to kill to protect his own life. From then on he puts aside his misgivings and is prepared to do whatever is necessary to finish the job. He finds himself in a whirlwind of violence and treachery. The climax comes when the most powerful Tontine member Count Fosco plans to use the Matrix to eliminate the others. How can James stop him? The book closes with James Ballantyne taking his own special revenge against international treachery.
Author: David Pae
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Author: Squadron Leader Roy Handley
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803814500
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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This is the story of a man who, coming from a privileged, aristocratic and military background, joined the Royal Air Force. Serving his country for more than 50 years in the Royal Air Force, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Civil aviation industry. He went on to face great danger, espionage, love and eventually marriage. He also witnessed aviation history being made... Authenticity and realism are accurately confirmed. Air Commodore Guy Davenport DSO AFC epitomises the men who serve Queen, now King, and country, in the oldest and finest Air Force in the world. Certain names have been changed to protect identities. This book adds the real meaning to the classic words of the Royal Air Force motto. Through Adversity to the Stars.
Author: Lawrence Wagger
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456876538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Freddy Johnson
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1781484325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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Following on from 'My Early Life', we observe John Reddisson from thirty-five to eighty (1968-2013). Initially, he spends three memorable years as the British Liaison Officer to a Soviet Military Mission (SOXMIS) in West Germany at the height of the Cold War. Returning to London, he meets and marries the fragrant Maria but not before completing an intelligence assignment in Hong Kong. Disillusioned by Army life, John retires and joins an English language school on the Kent coast, later becoming the Principal. Retirement to an Andalusian villa brings problems. John and Maria return to England, settling in Lincolnshire.
Author: Freddy Johnson
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1781484260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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John Reddisson is born into a London working-class family in the early 1930s. The Second World War arrives and John is evacuated to Kent, Cornwall and South Wales. He later attends grammar school in London. He gains a place to study languages at Cambridge after National Service. We accompany John to the Italian Riviera on travel courier work. After Cambridge, he joins the Army Education Branch and we follow him on postings to Kent and Singapore. Finally, John attends an eighteen-month Russian course, including several months spent living with a White Russian family in Paris.
Author: Anthony Bryan
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1786235250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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Dick Frame was way in over his head when he accepted an offer to join the ranks of the British Secret Service. After being held hostage and tortured in the Middle East when his first operation went sour, he decided to leave, but soon found that it was not that easy to quit. He made a pact with his partner Charley Panarti to leave MI5, only to be drawn into an international triangle of drugs, arms and politics reaching from Saudi Arabia to Ireland. Less than a year later, Dick and Charley are drawn into political intrigue and an attempt to blacken Harold Wilson's government. Dick and Charley are no strangers to the 'dark side' of life but they need all the black humour they can muster to get through the latest list of perverted demands from the boss Fiona Renwick, the Head of Counter Subversion. Only recently transferred to Fiona's Desk at special request, the two are exhausted already, partly due, perhaps, to the abuse heaped on them just months previously. Dick and Charley's first concern is why has Fiona requested them – the ones she has always called Mr and Mrs Fuck-up?............
Author: Paul Purnell
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 178623436X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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When a storm sweeps a stranger into the inn on the moor, the locals, seeking refuge, wonder who he is and why he is there. When a second stranger seeks shelter, a mystery begins to unravel with dreadful consequences. (The Storm) A prisoner's first day of freedom spirals into a series of pitfalls he can hardly escape, leading him into desperate trouble. (Day One) Escaping from Syria a brave man faces danger and a life changing decision. (Escape from Syria) In this medley of stories, the scene shifts with every tale. Some are exciting, some dramatic and some humorous, but the reader is gripped every time. This collection contains some stories from prize winning entries, some published before and many new ones. The author's talent at setting the scene, creating authentic characters and convincing plot lines is evident in this fascinating collection. A perfect book for all readers who love a well fashioned yarn.
Author: Anthony James
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1781484139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
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The 1917 Bloodline is in the tradition of Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and Arthur Koestler. Alan Grahame is a hard-drinking, middle-aged single father and poet leading a secretive life and escaping from a murky political past. His past seems buried until one day - on a wild impulse - he sends a poem anonymously to Helen, head teacher of a local school. Soon afterwards his mobile phone rings, and he hears a voice from the Cold War. How far will Grahame go in honouring old loyalties in post-9/11 Britain? How far will Helen go in shaking off her joyless and passionless present?
Author: John Humphries
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803810947
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Flynt seems to end at a new dormer bungalow with white pebble-dash walls, not the grey stone terraced house in the Welsh valleys from which, according to a recently declassified MI5 file, Prettyman operated a radio transmitter from the attic alerting German U-Boats to Allied shipping movements. Dead ducks are news stories destined for the News Editor's spike and Flynt suspects he has found one until a letter arrives at the bungalow with the same coded message --Many Happy Returns Harold Prettyman--used by Prettyman and his accomplice in 1940. But there are no Allied food convoys in the North Atlantic and, believing the letter a hoax Flynt's newspaper moves him to another assignment—the disappearance of a Foreign Office diplomat suspected of fleeing to Moscow like his predecessors Burgess and Maclean. But Scotland Yard seems more interested in the Coal Miner, a missing Van Gogh masterpiece looted by the Red Army Trophy Brigade as war reparations, but now the focus of an exhibition at Tate Britain after being returned to its owner by the Commission for the Recovery of Looted Art in Europe. The painting discovered hanging on the kitchen wall of the apartment of a dead Trophy Brigade officer had been taken in lieu of pension. Private homes, art galleries and museums across the Russian Federation continue to hold large quantities of booty from the Second World War, worthless since President Putin banned the repatriation of cultural artifacts, but priceless in the West. So, is the Coal Miner exhibited at the Tate the missing Van Gogh or a forgery made by a copyist at the Hermitage in St Petersburg? A zig-zag trail leads Flynt's search for Harold Prettyman into the world of Diplomatic Bags, fakes, and money laundering.
