Deep Black

Nick Stone has nothing left to lose. The only person he has ever loved is dead, and the few people who might have given him a reason to go on have turned their backs on him.

Then a man whose life Stone saved ten years earlier turns up by chance. What looks like a simple errand in Baghdad draws Stone into a conspiracy, and by the time he understands what is happening, it is too late to step away.

Stone is being used as bait. The target is a man Stone believes could offer him some kind of salvation, and the darker forces of the West will stop at nothing to destroy that man. Stone has to decide where he stands between the one person who might help him and the people using him to get to that person.

This is a modern espionage thriller built around a lone operative. The action moves from Bosnia to Iraq, and the pace is fast and violent, with a bleak personal undercurrent running beneath the plot.