Arabie saoudite : un mystérieux terroriste, surnommé le Scorpion, recrute un jeune étudiant en médecine radicalisé, Ibrahim Hussein, pour l'envoyer en Europe mourir en martyr.Angleterre : David Banks est un officier chargé de neutraliser la menace grandissante qui pèse sur Londres. Au fil des années, ses certitudes se sont érodées. La fréquentation quotidienne des milieux radicaux a progressivement brouillé chez lui les frontières du bien et du mal. Alors qu'inexorablement Ibrahim se rapproche de sa cible et de son destin, David est peut-être le seul à pouvoir l'arrêter.Qu'est-ce qui conduit un homme à risquer sa vie pour un idéal ? Après le très remarqué Dans son ombre, Gerald Seymour nous offre ici un thriller d'une actualité brûlante.Un voyage dans les méandres de l'âme et une passionnante descente dans les coulisses du terrorisme. Anne Lessard, Le Télégramme.Un roman polyphonique à la construction précise et au réalisme saisissant. Abel Mestre, Le Monde des livres.Traduit de l'anglais par Paul Benita.
Londres, 2001. L'Église, un service très particulier des Douanes britanniques, a surveillé pendant trois ans Albert William Packer, richissime homme d'affaires soupçonné d'appartenir à la mafia londonienne. Mais après un procès retentissant et plusieurs mois passés en prison, Packer est libéré, du fait de la défection d'un témoin clé. L'enquête est officiellement close, l'Église a échoué, mais le jeune Joey Cann se jure de ne jamais renoncer. Il sera désormais dans l'ombre de sa cible. Un jour, un homme est retrouvé mort à Sarajevo et Packer est forcé de se rendre en Bosnie. C'est dans ce pays exsangue et ravagée par la guerre que Joey va tenter de le piéger.
« Envoûtant, Dans son ombre frappe par sa tension palpable, sa manière de préférer le suspense et la psychologie à l'action. » Alexandre Fillon, Lire.
« Un roman noir quasi épique dans lequel histoire, psychologie et aventures forment un ménage addictif. » Sébastien Rochard, Le Courrier de l'Ouest.
Jericho's War is a relentlessly powerful novel of our times from 'the best thriller writer in the world' (Daily Telegraph) In a moment of nerve shredding suspense that will affect many thousands of lives, a handful of men and women will converge on a barren stretch of Yemeni desert. Each of them will need spirit, courage and immense luck to survive the next forty-eight hours. Corrie Rankin is already a legend at MI6 when he is called back with little regard for the horrors of his recent past. Corrie is sent to take advantage of a chance to take down a high value player in the war against Al Qaeda - and, a chance for the Brits to succeed without begging help from the Americans. The sniper and his spotter who will go with Corrie are less than top team, but the best that can be found if the mission is to stay 'deniable'. And once the three misfits are in-country, they must rely on intelligence brought to them by a young British Jihadi - on the ground and close to the target - and now turned. And, close to him, is an archaeologist digging in the ruins of the Queen of Sheba' civilisation who will be their cut-out contact point. The mission is the brain-child of an apparently old, fat fool in a striped cricket blazer, a sweating figure of fun among the ex-pat community across the border in Muscat. This is Jericho ... not as old or fat or foolish as he appears, nor as harmless. This is Jericho's War. The weapons it deploys, the brutal aims it pursues, are state of the art. The fear it breeds and the raw bravery it demands are as timeless as the desert itself.
When Malachy Kitchen, an intelligence officer in Iraq, is accused of running away in the face of enemy fire, his career is left in tatters. Kicked out of the army, he sinks into despair. He becomes an isolated recluse in a drug-infested London estate. But the mugging of an elderly widow by addicts draws him into a fight to regain his lost pride.
Officially the Cold War is over. Between former enemies, the hand of friendship is exchanged in public. In private the intelligence war goes on. Russian naval officer, Viktor Archenko, passes information to MI6. Suddenly he stops using the dead drop. It's time to get him out. But a new breed plays the spy game now, men like Gabriel Locke.
A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. He believes it will end with his death in faraway England. For honour, for glory, for victory. If his mission succeeds, he will go to his god a martyr - and many innocents will die with him. This work talks about the world in which we live, with all its dangers and complexities.
In the vastness of the world's greatest desert - the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia - American and British experts in counter-terrorism search for a band of fugitives. They, in turn, are searching for and seeking to join the leaders of Al Qaeda. They must be found and killed before they can cause havoc and death in the Western world.
In 1992, after being fired from a top secret nuclear facility, a top KGB man buried a nuclear suitcase. Sixteen years later he has found a buyer for it. An exchange point in Eastern Europe is agreed upon. Travelling with the buyer is an undercover policeman, working for MI6.
'I consider this author to be in a class of his own ... His writing is superb, his plots tight and his research authentic. He is just the best we have in this area.' Sarah Broadhurst, The Bookseller, 2008
Winnie Monks has never forgotten - or forgiven - the death of a young agent on her team at the hands of a former Russian Army Major turned gangster. Now, years later, she hears the Major is travelling to a villa on the Costa del Sol and she asks permission to send in a surveillance unit. They find an empty property near the Major's. The Villa Paraiso. It's perfect to spy from - and as a base for Winnie's darker, less official, plans. But it turns out that the property isn't deserted. The owners have invited a young British couple to 'house sit' while they are away. For Jonno and Posie, just embarking on a relationship, this is supposed to be a carefree break in the sun. But when the Secret Service team arrives in paradise, everything changes.
@2@Two young men - Jago and Marcantonio - both studying business and finance:@16@Jago is a kid from a rough part of London who has worked hard to get a job in a bank and is now on a fast-track secondment to the Berlin office.@3@@2@ Marcantonio is one of the new generation in the 'Ndrangheta crime families from Calabria, Southern Italy. He is in Germany to learn how to channel their illicit millions towards legitimate businesses all over Europe.@16@ When Jago witnesses Marcantonio commit a vicious assault and the police seem uninterested, the Englishman refuses to let the matter drop.@3@@2@ But by pursuing the gangster to his grandfather's mountain lair, Jago is stepping into the middle of a delicate surveillance operation, which sets alarm bells ringing in Rome, London and Berlin.@3@@2@ It also leads him to Consolata, a young woman who sees in Jago the chance to turn her non-violent protest campaign against the crime families into something altogether more lethal...@3@@2@ NO MORTAL THING is novel of relentless power and mounting suspense, a brilliant portrayal of organised crime in Europe and the under-resourced men and women who fight it.@3@
