Geoffrey Archer, een voormalig defensiecorrespondent voor ITN, creëert nu meeslepende thrillers die zich verdiepen in de wereld van spionage en internationale intriges. Zijn romans worden geprezen om hun meedogenloze tempo en onverwachte plotwendingen, wat zorgt voor een boeiende leeservaring. Archer balanceert meesterlijk actie met hoge inzetten en goed ontwikkelde personages, wat een werkelijk meeslepende literaire ervaring oplevert. Zijn werk biedt een scherp perspectief op hedendaagse geopolitieke spanningen, waardoor elk verhaal een boeiende reis wordt.
Sam Packer, working for the Intelligence Services in Baghdad, is tipped off about a terrorist plan to attack Washington, but is arrested as a spy. He escapes to Britain with the help of his lover, who is then killed. When investigating her death, Barney gets drawn into the Iraqi weapons plot.
MI6 agent Sam Packer watches powerlessly as a gunrunner is shot down in front of him on a lonely road in Zambia. As life slips from his grasp the arms smuggler whispers a heart-stopping warning to Sam: a terrorist gang has a horror weapon and means to commit mass murder. But the man dies before naming the gang, its nationality or its cause.
Until his documents from the project turned up one chilly October morning on Parliament Hill, and the Ministry's prime suspect committed suicide leaving him with only two alternatives: write off a billion-pound project, or approve tests which could give Russia the power to wipe out the West at the touch of a button-.
A British minister is a pawn in a deadly game played out in one of the world's most explosive countries - Indonesia. Together with a lone woman TV reporter he penetrates a remote island, where a powder keg of armed local rebellion is threatening to explode under the repressive regime.
Tom Sedley's idyllic summer vacation in a leafy suburb of north London came to a shocking end on 14 September 1948, when his sister was brutally murdered in woodland near his house. A tramp was arrested for the crime, but for the young boy it was the beginning of a lifelong search to discover what had actually happened that late summer day. Marcus Warwick was Tom's neighbor and best friend, but suspicion clouded Tom's mind and they drifted apart. They were both sent to Korea two years later, Warwick as an officer, Sedley as a humble radio man, and when they met in the chaos of war they both had to acknowledge a gulf had opened between them. It soon became apparent that the one could barely trust the other with his life.
A worldwide hunt is on for Yugoslav war criminals. The charge is genocide. Most of those already caught are Serbs, but the international community wants political and ethnic balance, in particular a Catholic Croat who led a brutal massacre in a Bosnian Muslim village.
Sam Packer, hero of FIREHAWK and The LUCIFER NETWORK, has a new assignment that will combine all his diplomatic and survival skills. An aging, wealthy Japanese businessman, Tetsuo Kamata, wants to rescue an ailing British car company, but the moment the announcement is made, death threats are made against Kamata by a former prisoner-of -war, Peregrine Harrison, who was tortured on the infamous Burma Railway. For the last five decades, Harrison has been the leader of a British-based cult. Packer can't believe that at the age of 77 Harrison has the strength or will to exact revenge, but he reckons without Harrison's cult adherents, one of whom is a ruthless ex-SAS operative now involved in drug smuggling in the Burma triangle. Packer learns that Kamata will be hit while visiting a new factory site in Burma and is flown out under cover to prevent a tragedy. Kamata is kidnapped and Packer is soon in the jungle, both hunter and hunted as he searches for the missing man and is tracked by his enemies. The Burma Legacy combines Geoffrey Archer's immaculate research with heart stopping action.
All he needed was luck to thread a nuclear warhead through the complicated network of the Middle East terrorist rings, get it on a Libyan freighter and head west across the Med-And enough luck to avoid the one man whose hate is even greater than his, Captain Peter Brodrick of the Royal Marines.
