Terminal Black
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
Former MI5 agent Harry Tate is drawn back into the field when an old friend goes missing – and discovers the stakes could not be higher.
Harry Tate has one rule: you don’t abandon your friends. When he learns that former colleague Rik Ferris has had a breakdown and disappeared, allegedly in possession of highly sensitive secrets from MI6’s archives, he agrees to look for him and, if possible, bring him back in. But where to begin? Rik could be anywhere in the world.
All Harry knows is, if he doesn’t find Rik, others will be sent out instead. And they won’t play by the same rules.
What Harry doesn’t know is that Rik is being held prisoner and tortured for information relating to a high-level mole in the British establishment. If he doesn’t tell his captors what he knows, it will result in a devastating cyber attack designed to bring the UK to its knees.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Magson's fast-paced sixth contemporary spy thriller featuring former MI5 officer Harry Tate (after 2013's Execution), Rik Ferris, another former MI5 officer, lands in Belarus and promptly disappears, along with confidential information he obtained from secret British government files. One of Rik's last contacts was with a hacker with ties to Russia. Has he gone over to the other side? Harry, who's now working in "the security industry doing odd jobs for whoever needs a former spook," is approached by his old bosses to locate Rik and, if possible, bring him back alive. Amid vast platoons of computer hackers working feverishly to bring down world order, there's plenty of two-fisted action, shoot-outs, daring escapes, and slick disguises. Memorable characters include creepily evil villains and strong women who can go toe to toe with their male counterparts. This is the prose equivalent of one of those Hollywood action movies in which the audience can have fun because they know the good guys won't suffer any serious harm.
