His war is over and former special forces captain Gerry Gallen is enjoying the relative peace of running a cattle ranch in Wyoming. But when he's asked to lead a team to Jordan to retrieve his war-time sergeant, he agrees. Landing in Amman, Gallen re-enters a world of Arab gangsters, American mercenaries and the constantly shifting loyalties of the CIA. And watching over his every step is the lethal presence of Hamas - a daily reminder that Gallen is working under the constant threat of de...

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 mystery money mover."- The Sydney Morning Herald"The beauty of the book you hold in your hands is that it offers a unique and perfect insight into the money-laundering world."- Howard Marks, aka Mr. NiceWhat started innocently enough led Bruce Aitken to moving millions of dollars for some of the world's most notorious and shady characters - including the CIA, government officials, financiers and well-known drug lords.

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...

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...

Two hundred miles south of the Devon coastline, Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and twenty men prepare for their most daring mission yet - the hijack of a supertanker, a five-storey superstructure laden with oil. Meanwhile, in an Elizabethan country house, SBS operative Stratton has been seconded to bodyguard work and is bored by the lack of challenge. Not for long.With the helter-skelter pace that defined Duncan Falconer's brilliant debut THE HOSTAGE, Stratton has been w...

The fourth book in the brilliant Death Force series plunges the elite squad of hardened mercenaries into a deadly battle for survival in the frozen wastelands of the Arctic. A plane carrying a Russian oil billionaire has crashed mysteriously in the Arctic in the middle of a brutal winter. Nobody knows why, nor can they locate the aircraft's black box. With only days left before the signal switches itself off, the men from 'Death Force' are hired by a rival billionaire to make one last desp...

The third thrilling action adventure novel in the Death Force series, SHADOW FORCE plunges the team of hardened mercenaries into a battle to defeat Somali pirates.Somalia, 2010: Somali-based pirates are attacking ships off the coast of Africa, demanding tens of millions of dollars in ransoms, and pushing up the cost of shipping along one of the world's most valuable trade routes. The elite fighting men from Death Inc are thrown into action in their most dangerous mission yet. They are the ...

Stratton carries out a small task in Central America as a favour to a CIA officer, but it leads him to become embroiled in a national rebellion. Against his own principles, the special operative becomes emotionally involved and decides to join the popular uprising. However, he is unaware that the fight is not just against the local government - the CIA are very much involved.As events spiral disastrously out of control, Stratton must face up to his biggest and most treacherous chal...

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 ...

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...

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 Str...