Book description
An exhilarating tale of modern espionage and adventure featuring US
Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik.
In Tel Aviv, Commander Alan Craik, a US Navy veteran agrees to check
out the death of a former Navy enlisted employee. He plans to be out the
door and on to his real work in half an hour. But the task quickly turns
dangerous, and what should have been a routine investigation becomes
something very ugly.
Nominal American allies in Israel withhold or alter information;
nominal colleagues at home set up their own operation to satisfy the
political needs of Washington; a wife betrays her husband and deceit and
distrust prove to be the only common denominator.
When Mike Dukas, a dogged, cynical special agent of the Naval Criminal
Investigative Service joins the investigation, it leads them all from
Tel Aviv to Gaza and the Greek island of Lesvos to Jerry Piat, a
renegade CIA officer.
With agents of Mossad and the Palestinian Authority always close behind
them, Alan Craik demands the answers to some far-reaching questions.
What are the rules in modern conflict? Where is honour? And what is the
cost of telling the truth? Kent knows his subject at first hand and
the expertise shows on the page: high stakes, pounding tension and the
best dogfights put on paper. A lot of thrillers these days, you come
away feeling like you've been in a simulator. Gordon Kent straps you
into the real thing. Enjoy the ride!'
IAN RANKIN, on Night Trap
'Flying, spying and dying - Night Trap is the real straight Navy stuff.
Better strap yourself to the chair. I loved it.'
STEPHEN COONTS
'Tom Clancy used to have the high-tech military thriller stakes all to
himself but now Gordon Kent has entered the field, and how. There's
action on all fronts with Alan Craik at the heart of it, whether it's a
carrier group in the Med confronting a rogue Russian sub commander,
mounting a rescue mission for a captured CIA agent in Africa, or helping
combat a high-level conspiracy in Washington. Non-stop … a smoking gun
of a story.'
Northern Echo, on Peacemaker
'Told with all the authority of inside knowledge … an absorbing tale of
international skulduggery.'
Irish News, on Peacemaker
'Consistently excellent … loaded with gunfights, snappy dialogue and
the aerial hijinks of supersonic jet fighters. The high testosterone
doses satisfy, but best is the complex and clever web of motive Kent
weaves for the mole.'
Publishers Weekly, on Top Hook Gordon Kent is the pseudonym of a
father-and-son writing team, both of whom have extensive personal
experience in the US Navy. Both are former Intelligence officers and
both served as aircrew. The son earned his Observer wings in S-3 Vikings
during the Gulf conflict. After service in the Mediterranean, Persian
Gulf, Pacific and Africa, he left active duty in 1999.
