"...these are stories crying out to be turned into a gritty television drama - think a true story version of The Night Manager." Sydney Morning Herald'I fix things. I can build you a house or remodel your bathroom. I can also make bad situations - and bad people - disappear.'Meet Mike. Runs a building site, drives a ute, likes a beer, loves his nail-gun.But Mike is hiding in plain sight. When the Pentagon call him in as 'B...

"I deal with heavy, dangerous people. People who can bring a society undone."The Contractor returns.Mike is a big unit. He builds houses and drives a ute. But he isn't your typical tradie.When a client calls he downs tools and flies into the hot zone in his other guise - that of an elite private intelligence contractor.In four high-octane adventures, The Contractor takes on a counter-surveillance gig in Singapore, a jungle a...

Meet Alan McQueen - a tough, true-blue Aussie spy - in a fast-paced and action-packed thriller. He's on the trail of Abu Sabaya, the world's most dangerous terrorist - a man he thought he'd killed years ago. Alan McQueen, aka Mac, was once a star of the global intelligence community, renowned for being the Aussie spook who shot and killed Abu Sabaya, the world's most dangerous terrorist. But that was 2002. Now, during a routine assignment in Indonesia, McQueen discovers that Sabaya is not ...

In this action-packed and gripping sequel to Golden Serpent featuring the indefatigable Mac, Mark Abernethy confirms his status as a master thriller writer. In the early hours of October 13, 2002, Australian spy Alan McQueen is jolted awake and told to immediately head to Bali, where more than two hundred people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts. Descending into Denpasar, Mac finds tensions running high between MI6, ASIS and the CIA, not to mention the Indonesian national police ...

Intelligence agent Alan 'Mac' McQueen returns in a action-packed and gripping new thriller. This time he's putting his life on the line to fight the forces who will stop at nothing to destroy the independence movement in East Timor. 'Abernethy conjures echoes of Fleming, Ludlum, Clancy and the Jack Reacher novels of Lee Child.' -The Weekend Australian. Intelligence agent Alan 'Mac' McQueen - the intrepid hero of Golden Serpent and Second Strike - is back! Double Back sees Mac fighting dang...

Australia's super-spy, Alan McQueen, has been lured out of retirement. Any dreams Mac has of a cosy office job are shattered when he's dispatched to Singapore to oversee a covert mission. And when things go disastrously wrong, he not only has to defend his reputation in Australia but also stay out of jail in Vietnam.From the leafy suburbs of Singapore to the mean streets of Saigon, from the political infighting of Canberra to the old killing fields of Northern Cambodia, Mac has to ...

Gerry Gallen is searching for peace after years serving as a captain in the US Marines special forces.But when Gallen agrees to lead a team or former soldiers looking after the personal security of an eccentric oil billionaire, he finds himself catapulted onto a rollercoaster of violence and double-crossing where private intelligence operators and clandestine hit teams are commonplace.Powerful US and Russian interests are vying for the Arctic's valuable oil fields and it se...

THE FIFTH INTERNATIONALE SynopsisFrom Spies to Oligarchs...The Iron Curtain had come crushing down, Soviet satellite countries switched allegiance to the United States, and their communist spies must be let go. Hundreds of thousands are discharged, but not retired -- they unite under the banner of The Fifth Internationale, building a global conspiracy that will allow them to manipulate world governments to their own end.Only one man can stop them.

TRAPPED IN THE CONGO JUNGLE. HUNTED BY AN UNSEEN ENEMY.Special Agent Vin Cooper has survived the deadliest job going: bodyguard to bent politicians in Afghanistan. Now, he's got the cushiest: babysitting a pair of hip-hop megastars as they're flown out to Rwanda to perform a sympathy gig for the US army.Most agents would kill for this assignment. Cooper will be lucky to get out alive.When their helicopter crash-lands in the Congo, Cooper must think ...

In Afghanistan, elite operative John Stratton leads a raid on a remote compound, leaving no survivors.Days later, in London, Stratton is contacted by an old friend in military intelligence with a curious message about being hunted by an assassin.When the officer vanishes, Stratton is drawn into a desperate race to secure a missing nuclear warhead that has been stolen from the Pakistan military. Against an unknown enemy, he begins a heart-stopping search for the bomb that wi...

When elite operative John Stratton is sent to Yemen by the Secret Intelligence Service to track down a suspected al-Qaeda cell, he thinks he knows what he is dealing with.But when he and his colleagues get captured by Somali pirates, all bets are off. Stratton discovers what it is like to be held hostage by ruthless men who have a deadly agenda - men for whom Stratton and his colleagues are just bargaining chips. And this is no ordinary hostage situation: Stratton has stepped right...

In war-torn Iraq, Stratton's closest friend is killed whilst on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child - Stratton's godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles she is brutally murdered and her child placed in state custody. Stratton, rocked to his foundations by the killing, uncovers a FBI plot to hide the crime and sets off on a private operation of revenge that eventually pits him against one of the most powerful East European crime syndicates in America. Hunted by the CIA a...