Review by Brian (Biggles) Lowen on show 18th nov.
This story starts off in Sierra Leone where SAS Captain Alex Temple is on a mission to rescue a TV reporter and her crew who have been kidnapped by some renegades and held in their camp deep in the jungle. I thought this might be the basis for the new film recently released –
The mission is successful but this has no bearing on the rest of the story as Alex Temple is recalled to London for a new mission. It is as if Chris Ryan needs to get a bit of jungle warfare in each of his books.
Alex Temple is seconded to MI5 for his new mission. Someone has been murdering MI5 officers and it looks as if the killer is an insider, one of the SAS regiment’s own. Alex’s task is to track down and eliminate the killer, and as so often occurs in this type of story, he is assigned an attractive assistant – an MI5 liaison officer – the attractive but abrasive Dawn Harding.
After an initial frosty pairing they soon gel into a good team in the deadly and relentless manhunt. As the body count mounts, Alex starts to uncover the bitter truth that in the shadowy battlegrounds of the intelligence wars nobody can be trusted – there is no good and no evil, only winners and losers.
A good story, plenty of action with a little love interest. I enjoyed it and can recommend it to all thriller lovers.
review by Brian
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