The Agency
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'Jed Walker is right there in Reacher's rear-view mirror' Lee Child, international bestselling author
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In the murky world of espionage the rules of war do not apply
2005: Jed Walker has just joined the CIA. As a ten-year veteran of Air Force Special Operations, Walker is used to being at the sharp end of things. But normally the front line is much further from home.
Sent to New Orleans on the trail of some desperate Russians, he has no choice but to team up with a female British agent. As the body count grows and Hurricane Katrina hits, it's clear to Walker that no game has higher stakes. The winner takes all and he must succeed.
From Langley to Louisiana, Washington to Moscow, Jed Walker is going to be pushed to the limit - of what he can do, what he can take, and what he knows is right.
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Praise for James Phelan
'James Phelan has produced a big, juicy, rollicking tale in the spirit of Robert Ludlum. We haven't seen an international thriller like this for a long time' Jeffery Deaver
'A fast and furious ride through a complicated maze of timely political intrigue. James Phelan has earned a new avid fan' Steve Berry
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Early in Phelan's fast-paced fifth Jed Walker thriller (after 2017's Dark Heart), set in 2005, Afghanistan War veteran Walker is tapped to travel to New Orleans on a covert mission after completing his rigorous training with the CIA's Special Activities Division in Virginia. In a New Orleans bar, where Walker is supposed to exchange code phrases with a male contact, an attractive woman, Steph Mensch, warns him that his cover has been blown and that a guy, newly arrived at the bar, is going to kill him. Walker takes out the killer in the bar's restroom before going on the run with Steph, who reveals she's a British intelligence agent. The pair end up trying to track down a secret weapon that some Russians are looking to buy for "hundreds of millions of dollars" while evading attacks from a Blackwater-like private security firm, just as Hurricane Katrina is about to devastate the city. Walker almost single-handedly vanquishes a series of bad guys en route to the triumphant ending. This outing will appeal mainly to action junkies untroubled by uneven prose and paper-thin characters.
