Undersea Prison
By (Author) Duncan Falconer
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
1st November 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
823.92
Paperback
432
Width 111mm, Height 176mm, Spine 28mm
242g
After the British military lose an officer to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, a desperate race begins to find his killers. Little do the assailants know that the precious information they have stolen could bring down the entire network of Western intelligence in the Mid-East. But then one of them is captured by US troops and flown to the States for interrogation.
And so begins a nail-biting, claustrophobic and explosive thriller that will ultimately lead British operative John Stratton to the Styx penitentiary, America s undersea prison. How do you break in to a jail a hundred metres below the ocean Can Stratton get the information back without the US discovering him And is everyone in the prison really who they seem to beWith its labyrinthine narrative and authentic detail, its CIA plots and White House agents, this fourth thriller in the Stratton series will catapult Duncan Falconer right into the top tier.A gripping and authentic view of life and death in the dangerous world of private protection by someone who has been there and worn the T-shirt - SOLDIER MAGAZINE
A former member of the elite Special Boat Service & 14 Int., N. Ireland's top-secret SAS detachment, Duncan Falconer left after over a decade of operational service to go on to the private security 'circuit'. His SBS exploits were documented in the bestselling FIRST INTO ACTION.