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The Hostage: 1 (John Stratton) Book

An intelligent action thriller, Hostage is the first novel by Duncan Falconer, formerly of the British Special Boat Service and British counter-intelligence in Northern Ireland. Unsurprisingly, he writes about what he knows and, more surprisingly, does so rather well. An SBS group running surveillance and similar operations become aware that they have been betrayed when one of their number is kidnapped--the search is on for a mole. The subsequent abduction of an American officer is part of a complex plan to inflict horrific damage on London. This is defeated less by the prowess of Falconer's paragon hero than by teamwork and legwork, convincingly portrayed. Falconer has a propagandistic, but nonetheless subtle, sense of how religion and ethnicity can be used to distort loyalty. He is unusually interested in, and sympathetic to, the traitor whose identity he reveals early on so that he can explore his psychology. This is a book that relies less than one might expect on the author's training and special knowledge, crucial to it though these are, and rather more on carefully blocked scenes of action and a degree of real thoughtfulness--villains whose absolute evil potentially renders them cardboard are given some complexity and understanding. --Roz KaveneyRead More

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    Grippingly authentic thriller debut by a former member of the elite Special Boat Services.

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    When an undercover operation monitoring the Real IRA goes horrifically wrong British Intelligence turn to the one man who can get their agent out: Stratton SBS operative with a lethal reputation. It's a dangerous race against time: if the Real IRA get to the Republic before Stratton gets to the Real IRA his colleague is as good as dead. But the battle in the Northern Ireland borders is just the beginning. For there can only be one way the Real IRA knew about the British agent: someone within MI5 is tipping them off. A surveillance mission is mounted in Paris to identify the mole but ends in disaster: Hank Munro US Navy SEAL on secondment is captured. Munro's wife Kathryn is distraught and her priest Father Kinsella is very supportive. Kinsella though is not the holy man he seems and Kathryn becomes an unwitting part of a deadly Real IRA plan a terror attack the likes of which London has never seen ...When Hank is inadvertently kidnapped by terrorists on an SBS 'safe op' Kathryn returns home to America only to be manipulated by a priest and secret IRA godfather into playing a political role in the negotiations for Hank's release.Unknown to her she is to have a key part in the most destructive terrorist assault in Irish Republican history one that holds the fate of hundreds of thousands of Londoners in its hands.

  • 0751544671
  • 9780751544671
  • Duncan Falconer
  • 7 October 2010
  • Sphere
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 480
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