Book description
Hauled back early from an exercise with the SAS, Paul Richter is tasked
with a short-notice extraction job. It goes unexpectedly well, and as a
kind of reward he’s given an easy one: he’s to investigate the case of
James Holden, a middle-aged Englishman living in Dubai, who appears able
to predict terrorist attacks.
It should be simple - a break in the sun and a couple of days’ work at
most - but, almost as soon as he arrives in Dubai, he is diverted to
Bahrain. Then it all starts getting complicated. Who is the secretive
patient in the Manama hospital? Who has slaughtered a dozen people at a
remote stable in Saudi Arabia just to steal one horse? And why has a US
State Department jet carrying a specialist CIA team been diverted to
Cairo?
Nothing seems to make sense until Richter finally uncovers the outlines
of a plot that will come to fruition during the world’s richest
horse-race. But, behind the scenes, an even more complex scheme is being
executed and Richter is in a race against time to prevent a catastrophic
terrorist attack on the city of Dubai itself. James Barrington, who
himself worked in covert operations, is swiftly building a reputation
and following as a writer of high-class, authentic, UK-based espionage
thrillers including Overkill and Pandemic
