coolreads# The Mercenary

The Mercenary

Author: Paul Vidich

Publisher: No Exit Press

ISBN: 9806857304452

The Mercenary is about a retired CIA agent who returns to arrange a KGB agent's defection from Moscow in 1985. When Moscow CIA station chief George Mueller’s cover is compromised due to betrayal within the Agency, top-secret asset codename GAMBIT requests a new case officer - Aleksander Garin. The CIA then pulls Garin out of retirement and sends him off to Moscow. 

coolreads# The Paladin

The Paladin

Author: David Ignatius

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393867480

The Paladin is about a daring, high-tech CIA operation that goes wrong and is disavowed by the higher authorities while the agent involved, who has been sacrificed, sets out for revenge. 

coolreads# The Two Lost Mountains

The Two Lost Mountains

Author: Matthew Reilly

Publisher: Orion

ISBN: 9781409194415

Matthew Reilly’s Jack West Jr. series kicked off with Seven Ancient Wonders, which introduced a host of new characters, and offered an action-packed thrill-ride. A blockbuster movie on the page, filled with secret history, insane action scenes, some fun technology, and superb pacing. 

coolreads# Hour of the Assassin

Hour of the Assassin

Author: Matthew Quirk

Publisher: Head Zeus

ISBN: 9781800243484

Framed for a crime he did not commit and on the run for his life, a former Secret Service agent discovers how far some men will go to get to the highest office in the United States in this thriller from bestselling author Matthew Quirk.

coolreads# Manhunter

Manhunter

Author: Chris Ryan

Publisher: Zaffre

ISBN:9781838775216

The story starts off with SAS staff sergeant Josh Bowman, a member of the four-man team of The Wing, a covert unit of SAS working alongside MI5 and MI6, in an agonising withdrawal condition and badly in need of a shot to relieve the pain spreading all over his body. Bowman is with the detail to protect a British-backed tyrant, Ken ‘The Viper’ Seguma, who is the president of the tiny but mineral-rich Central African state of Karatandu.

coolreads# Scar Tissue

Scar Tissue

Author: Ollie Olleron

Publisher: Blink

ISBN: 9781788703626

Alex Abbott is a former Special Forces operative who left private security work in the Middle East under questionable circumstances. Unfortunately, his experience in the military has landed him with a serious drinking problem that not only wrecked his marriage but also estranged him from his family. Now he is making a living as a hired gun in Singapore.

coolreads# The Kobalt Dossier

The Kobalt Dossier

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Publisher: Head of Zeus

ISBN: 9781800243149

Evan Ryder returns in The Kobalt Dossier, the stunning follow-up to The Nemesis Manifesto from New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader.