Long Shot

The Berlin Wall has come down, and the buzzwords of the day are perestroika and glasnost. It looks like the start of a new era of peace, but in a small department of British Intelligence they know that it's only a change of focus, and that the new area of conflict will be the Middle-East. And they have just the man for the job. Ashraf Khan is big, tough, highly intelligent -- and a British Muslim. In this, the first novel of a series, a fatwa is declared against a British Prime Minister by a renegade Muslim cleric, and the small and erratic Department 8 with its cynical, scheming head, Roger Gordon, is charged with investigating the threat. Then the PM is assassinated, apparently by Jamila Hammuri, a beautiful Palestinian long-shot specialist. The newly recruited Ashraf Khan is launched on his first mission with little support and only a vague idea of what he is supposed to be looking for. When he encounters, and falls in love with, Jamila Hammuri, his difficulties and inner conflicts are intensified, making him question his mission and everything to do with it.This is a tense political thriller in which nothing is quite as it seems, and which ranges from the Persian Gulf to a dojo in Manchester, via a romantic stopover in Paris.Ashraf is a gripping new character in the espionage genre - a man of ideals, with the skills to back them up, but with human flaws and conflicts, just like the rest of us.Get to know him now -- there are more books on the way!