All Fall Down
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Publisher Description
A failed mission sends a British intelligence operative running for his life in this electrifying new thriller from the author of The Break Line.
Soldier, assassin, and special agent—Max McLean works for a highly secretive unit called The Unknown: a black ops team which delivers off-the-books justice on behalf of the British Government.
When a straightforward operation to kill a terrorist commander goes badly wrong, Max finds himself framed for murder. Cut off from his base and cut loose by his Government handlers, he’s forced to go even deeper underground, propelled across Europe on a personal, high-stakes investigation to clear his name.
Racing against time to find out who his enemy is before his enemy finds him, Max has to unravel the only clue he has to their identity: an unusual hundred-dollar bill clutched in the dead terrorist’s fist.
But in this brutal game of spies nothing is as it seems: as hostile powers prepare to move against the West, Max McLean must face the shocking possibility that the traitor he seeks has been with him all along.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After botching what was supposed to be a simple assassination assignment outside Belfast, British operative Max McLean finds himself framed for murder, cut off by his handlers, and forced to go on the run, in Brabazon's uneven sequel to 2019's The Break Line. All McLean has to try to get out of his fix is a $100 bill he managed to pry from the dead fingers of the former IRA terrorist he was supposed to kill before someone beat him to it. The word Arkhangel written on the bill convinces McLean that the key to the case lies in the Russian seaport bearing its name and where McLean spent his early years. After dodging attempts on his life in Paris and Tel Aviv, McLean sneaks his way into the motherland. Well before then, however, this spy thriller has begun to unravel. Improbable characters, principally a whimsical nerd McLean meets in the Paris catacombs, and a belief-straining plot twist involving McLean's teenage girlfriend, doom the story's second half. Brabazon writes great action scenes, but he's not going to move up the ranks with this one.
