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.

coolreads# Bloody Foreigners

Bloody Foreigners

Author: Neil Humphreys

Publisher: Muswell Press

ISBN: 9781916207738

Neil Humphreys hits the nail right on the head with his latest crime thriller, Bloody Foreigners, featuring the racial hate crime that is on the rise everywhere. Especially in London where the story is based...

coolreads# The Night Agent

The Night Agent

Author: Matthew Quirk

Publisher: Head of Zeus

ISBN: 9781800243477

The non-stop action of this thriller is similar to an earlier thriller published many years ago - The Pelican Brief by John Grisham - which has been made into a movie starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington, of the same title. In both stories, ordinary citizens are on the run from the authorities after stumbling upon some dark secrets that lead directly to the White House. 

coolreads# Tom Clancy’s Op-Centre - The Black Order

Tom Clancy’s Op-Centre - The Black Order

Author: Jeff Rovin

Publisher: St Martin Griffin NY

ISBN: 9781250222343

In this action-packed thriller in the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, America's elite task force must take down a group of ruthless domestic terrorists determined to paralyse the country through acts of violence. They are known as the Black Order, a motley group of self-proclaimed patriots and survivalists who refuse to surrender their values and beliefs to the left-leaning cultural and progressive forces threatening their nation.