Description

Within this novel, Jason Elliot illuminates the dim recesses of the intelligence community throughout a critical time ever: the find it difficult to prevent a terrorist attack.In the weeks before 9/11, former military officer Anthony Taverner is leading a peaceful life in the English countryside. But his hiring for a hazardous mission to Afghanistan from the British Secret Intelligence Service—better referred to as MI6—shatters his delicate peace and plunges him in to the kaleidoscopic world of spying. Underneath the expert assistance of a classic-school hero and veteran of the elite British Special Air Service, Taverner makes to enter Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to destroy a cache of the CIA 's valuable Stinger missiles before they can fall into the arms of al-Qaeda. In Britain and America, the intelligence area is set to get a disaster that must be kept secret from the public, one that Taverner must make an effort to avert—all without subjecting a dangerous secret all his own.Based on actual figures and drawing on the writer's considerable direct understanding of Afghanistan, this can be a thriller of uncommon credibility, offering continual perception into impacts encompassing 9/11 and increasing concerns concerning the role of intelligence agencies in historic occasions intentionally concealed from the public eye.