all Traces Of Self-esteem Have Been Brutally Stripped From Malachy Kitchen, An Intelligence Officer Posted To Iraq. He Is Accused Of Cowardice While On Patrol With An Infantry Platoon Ambushed By Insurgents. Word Spreads That He Ran Under Hostile Fire. In The Military Family There Is No Worse Crime. Humiliated And Broken, Kicked Out Of The Army, Malachy Sinks Into Despair. He Becomes An Isolated Recluse In A Drug-infested London Estate. But The Mugging Of An Elderly Widow By Addicts Lights A Flame That Draws Him To Fight To Regain His Lost Pride. His Target Is The Network Of Narcotics Traders.
Pushers, Dealers, And Suppliers Are That Network, And At Their Head Is Ricky Capel, A Crime Baron Importing Heroin Into The Uk. Untouchable Up To Now, Capel Will Have To Confront An Enemy More Driven Than Any Of The Policemen He Has So Far Successfully Outwitted.
Capel Is Fighting A War On Only One Front, But When His Albanian Associates Demand That He Uses His Drug Route To Ferry An Islamic Fanatic To Britain, Suddenly He Is Vulnerable From Other Directions...
From The Author Who Isn T Just Abreast Of The Headlines, [but] Ahead Of Them (the Washington Post Book World), And Who Is Truly One Of The Unsung Heroes Of The Political Thriller (chicago Tribune), This Is A Novel At Once International And Personal -- And Altogether Riveting.

anglophiles With A Taste For The Dark Side Will Enjoy The Latest Thriller From British Author Seymour (the Unknown Soldier), Despite An Overly Complicated Plot Involving Drug Trafficking And Mideast Terrorism. Malachy Kitchen Loses His Job With British Intelligence And Is Reduced To Living On The Street, Abandoned By Family And Friends, After An Apparent Act Of Cowardice During The Current Iraq War. Rescued By A Stranger Who Judges Him Worthy Of Another Chance, Kitchen Moves To A Drug-wrecked, Gang-infested London Housing Project. After Failing To Prevent The Mugging Of An Elderly Neighbor, Kitchen Employs His Professional Expertise Against The Local Gangs. Meanwhile, A Local Drug Lord Is Directed By His Hamburg Supplier To Do Something That Will Carry Him Into Far More Shadowy Realms Than The Drug Trade. Unfortunately, Since Kitchen Comes Across As Such A Pitiful Figure For Most Of The Book, Readers Will Find It Hard To Like Or Identify With Him Until They Gain A Full Understanding Of His Situation. (mar.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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