State Of Emergency
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3 AM on a frozen winter s night, only hours after the results of the general election. A small craft skims the Thames closing in on London s most exclusive new riverside hotel. On board is a lone assassin, his target - Britain s most powerful new politician. In a nation threatened by extremist jihadis and torn apart by civil unrest, Vernon Rolt has just been catapulted into government on an extreme anti-terror platform. Rolt s plans for a zero-tolerance crackdown on ethnic violence has touched a popular nerve. But his move into politics has made him some unlikely enemies British ex-servicemen, once his most committed supporters who now want him dead. Ex-SAS trooper turned MI5 operative Tom Buckingham is undercover inside Rolt s organisation. His mission- to neutralise the rogue assassins for whom he also has become a target, and to discover the deadly intentions of Rolt s new financier, shadowy Crimean oligarch Oleg Umarov. But all too soon, Tom gets caught up in a far more devastating plot which will change the political landscape of Europe - for ever...
Author: Andy McNab
Format: Hardback, 352 pages, 163mm x 243mm, 646 g
Published: 2015, Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Description
3 AM on a frozen winter s night, only hours after the results of the general election. A small craft skims the Thames closing in on London s most exclusive new riverside hotel. On board is a lone assassin, his target - Britain s most powerful new politician. In a nation threatened by extremist jihadis and torn apart by civil unrest, Vernon Rolt has just been catapulted into government on an extreme anti-terror platform. Rolt s plans for a zero-tolerance crackdown on ethnic violence has touched a popular nerve. But his move into politics has made him some unlikely enemies British ex-servicemen, once his most committed supporters who now want him dead. Ex-SAS trooper turned MI5 operative Tom Buckingham is undercover inside Rolt s organisation. His mission- to neutralise the rogue assassins for whom he also has become a target, and to discover the deadly intentions of Rolt s new financier, shadowy Crimean oligarch Oleg Umarov. But all too soon, Tom gets caught up in a far more devastating plot which will change the political landscape of Europe - for ever...
State Of Emergency