British intelligence operative and hardened assassin, Max McLean, battles a nightmarish enemy in this stunning debut thriller from an award winning war correspondent. When it comes to killing terrorists British intelligence has always had one man they could rely on, Max McLean. As an assassin, he's never missed, but Max has made one miscalculation and now he has to pay the price. His handlers send him to Sierra Leone on a seemingly one-way mission. What he finds is a horror from beyond his nightmares. Rebel forces are loose in the jungle and someone or something is slaughtering innocent villagers. It's his job to root out the monster behind these abominations, but he soon discovers that London may consider him the most disposable piece in this operation.

In a fly-blown bar in West Africa, war reporter James Brabazon found himself discussing military plans to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea with one of Africa’s most notorious mercenaries - his friend Nick du Toit. The Byzantine plot, its farcical execution and its tragic consequences led to Simon Mann and a host of celebrated guns-for-hire falling victim to their own avaricious plans, Machiavellian scheming and perverse double-crosses. In a twist of fate, James Brabazon remained free. His mercenary friend wasn’t as lucky. Nick du Toit was supposed to serve thirty-four years in Black Beach Prison, Africa's most notorious jail - a sentence which James could have been serving alongside him. Their unlikely friendship began two years earlier on the bloody battlefields of the Liberian civil war. With Nick as his bodyguard, James was the only journalist to film behind rebel lines. Establishing him as a brave and talented filmmaker, the war tested James’s physical and moral...

British intelligence operative and hardened assassin Max McLean must discover who's killing the members of his team in this new electrifying thriller from James Brabazon, author of The Break Line. Soldier, assassin, and special agent, Max heads a group of clandestine hit men called the Unknown that delivers off-the-books justice on behalf of the British government.Sent on a straightforward operation to kill a terrorist commander, Max walks into a trap. He narrowly escapes with his life—and a clue: an expertly forged hundred-dollar bill clutched in his dead target's fist. To find out who has set him up and why, Max follows the money trail first to Moscow, and then to Israel and Burma on a high-stakes investigation that leads him deep into the world of international organized crime and the corrupt heart of the British Secret Intelligence Service.Max is running out of time to find the answer before his enemy closes in. In this brutal game of...