RULE THREE

Rule Three - a novel by John Gordon

When Chloe Spellman, a British schoolteacher learns that her father faces the death sentence in a repressive African republic, no organization will raise a finger to save him. If he is not to die she knows she must rescue him herself. She just doesn't know how.

Lacking resources, she suddenly finds unexpected help from American author and CIA consultant Craig Vanstone. But her hopes begin to crumble as she struggles against the brutality of a sadistic dictator bent on genocide.

Then in an unimaginable twist, comes the chance both to prevent a civil war and to find love and fulfilment, but it depends upon the success of a mission of unbelievable foolhardiness that she will never be able to explain to anyone.

From London to Washington to the back streets of the World's most dangerous city she becomes the key player in an international game of cat-and-mouse where only the winner will survive as this disturbing yet moving story gathers momentum towards its stunning conclusion.