Dark Asset
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Publisher Description
"Two thumbs way up for this heart-stopping, exhilarating action thriller" Booklist Starred Review
Deep cover specialist Marc Portman uncovers a secret deal that could make billions in oil revenue … or topple two governments.
Portman’s latest assignment is providing back-up for a French intelligence agent sent to recover a hard drive from one of the most dangerous cities on the planet: Mogadishu in Somalia. What he hasn’t been told is that the device records secret negotiations between two leading western nations and a hardline terrorist organisation responsible for killing thousands of innocent people.
When the decision is taken to abandon the talks, anybody in the know immediately becomes a target to be silenced.
And Portman finds himself at the top of the list…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Magson's frenetic fourth Marc Portman thriller (after 2016's Hard Cover), the wily freelance close protection specialist takes on a job for France's main intelligence agency, the General Directorate for External Security. Consultant engineer Andr Masse, who's in fact a DGSE deep-cover operative, possesses a hard drive filled with data that's potentially damaging for at least two countries. Portman's mission is to get Masse out of Mogadishu, Somalia, and across the border to Djibouti. In an abandoned Mogadishu office building, Portman finds a mutilated body, which he identifies as Masse's. After retrieving the hard drive, he dodges bullets and fragmentation grenades fired by a murderous assault team of unknown origin as he rappels down an elevator shaft to safety. Then things really heat up. Portman must contend with spies, counterspies, terrorists, greedy politicians, and a power-mad former U.S. colonel en route to the open ending. Those seeking thoughtful reflection in their action heroes will have to look elsewhere.
