Volg de spannende avonturen van een topspecialist die in de schaduwen opereert. Zijn missie is het bieden van discrete bescherming in vijandige situaties, vaak zonder dat degenen die hij bewaakt hiervan op de hoogte zijn. Alleen bekend als Portman, is deze ongrijpbare agent een meester in heimelijkheid en doortastend optreden wanneer gevaar dreigt. Zijn aanwezigheid garandeert de veiligheid van degenen die hij beschermt en de snelle neutralisatie van bedreigingen, waardoor hij een onzichtbare wachter is in een gevaarlijke wereld.
When two British intelligence agents are dispatched on what could be a suicide mission to negotiate the release of a group of western hostages in Somalia, veteran MI6 operator Tom Vane hires deep cover specialist Mark Portman to protect them.
When a US State Department official on a fact-finding mission to Ukraine is placed under house arrest, the CIA hire Portman to get him out of the country. In that dangerous and volatile region, Portman will find himself up against local gangsters, professional snipers and power-crazed cops. But his most lethal enemy comes from his own side.
The third tense and compelling thriller to feature The Watchman - deep cover specialist Marc PortmanMarc Portman, codename Watchman, is in Russia providing covert back-up to wealthy Russian businessman Leonid Tzorekov. A former KGB officer sympathetic to the West, Tzorekov has close links with Vladimir Putin and is planning to use his influence with the President to improve relations between Russia, the USA and the European Union.However, there are those with vested interests in maintaining powerful men who will go to any lengths to ensure the proposed meeting does not take place. The Watchman’s role is to run security, evaluate risks and, where necessary, provide hard cover by taking more direct action and fighting back. When the assignment takes an unexpected turn, Portman has no choice but to take the hard cover option …
Portman must provide back-up for a French agent sent to recover a hard drive from Somalia. What he doesn't know is that the device records negotiations between two western nations and a terrorist organisation. When the talks are abandoned, anybody in the know becomes a target to silence and Portman is at the top of the list.