This is the spy thriller set in the 80s during the time of
change in the Soviet Union and move to end the Cold War. However, the crux of
the whole conspiracy is in the murder that was committed about 40 years ago,
during World War 11, in Cairo. Was that one linked to another murder on the Siros
during a commando raid?
Back to present day, one of Tweed’s sector chief, Harry Masterson,
is murdered in Greece. Before his death he had sent a box with random things in
it which could be clues to what he was doing in Greece with a beautiful Greek
woman. They point to both Greece and to Exmoor. So Tweed sends the famous and
vetted by SIS reporter Newman and the best marksman Marler to investigate the
Greek end. While he goes with Paula to Exmoor and see what the 3 retired army officers
are worried about, living close together and in more or less fortified houses.
Who are all the horsemen riding around the moor? Why is an
ex-policeman, digging into the 40 year old murder, in Cairo, investigating the
3 ex-army officers? Was he close to finding the murderer? Is the father of the
murdered man, an old world Greek out for revenge and responsible for the
killings happening in the present day? Is there a conspiracy that is using this
old vendetta as a smoke screen?
A well woven plot and works through all the clues and situations
in detail. It takes time to develop all the threads and link them up in the
final few chapters. Will they be able to avert the looming disaster? Will they
be able to find out who the mastermind and murderer is?
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel which is the sixth book in
this series. You get to know the characters better and as some of the team
members are still getting to know one another. The team is well formed by the
end of this book as this continues (seen from the later books) to be the core
team to investigate and protect. These earlier books were also quite long and
plots intricate and so very hard to put down until complete.
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