The Traitor's Contract
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Publisher Description
The Falklands gave him a taste for killing. Northern Ireland gave him a reason to turn traitor. The IRA gave him the chance to kill again.
The Traitor's Contract offers non-stop action when Jack Halloran, a brilliant war hero, turns traitor. After a brutal attack on his counter-intelligence organization, Halloran knows he's being hunted. It's fight or flight and Halloran never runs. Teaming up with a rogue IRA boss, he enacts a terrorist attack that will shake the world to its core.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jack Halloran has masterminded high-risk, secret, government-deniable operations against Arab terrorists for 30 years. Now his longtime targets have hired a rogue element of the IRA to settle the score: they want Halloran killed and his organization wiped out. The novel, third in a series ( The Libyan Contract ), smoothly introduces new readers to the storyline and the principal characters. Halloran; his right-hand man, Colin Lynch; and IRA assassin Brian Hennessey are convincing in their roles. Mann has a refreshingly clear sense of the ideas and idioms of Irish revolutionary politics. But The Traitor's Contract is most successful in its nonstop action. While high-tech gadgets play a role, the novel is not a pure techno-thriller. Most of the violence is direct and personal. It begins with a spectacular helicopter attack on a New York skyscraper, ends with a raid on a terrorist hideout in Donegal, and in between leaves a wide trail of imaginatively slain corpses. While not for the squeamish, this fast-moving yarn will appeal to those who believe adventure-fiction antagonists should see the whites of one another's eyes. 50,000 first printing, $40,000 ad/promo.
