When Marc Portman arrives at the designated meeting place,
he finds the person he is to meet lying dead on the sixth
floor of the abandoned building. A quick search doesn't
yield any identification, so Marc snaps a picture and
decides it's time to leave. Before he gets very far, an
extremist group attacks the building with guns and
grenades. Marc has to repel down an elevator shaft,
fighting off extremists on his way, to escape the building.
Mogadishu is a dangerous city to be in for an American or
anyone who is not a native.
Marc has been hired by the French DGSE (General Directorate
for External Security) as a close protection specialist to
get Andre Masse out of the country with the goods he is
there to secure, vital information on the oil dealings of
the al-Shabaab in Northern Africa and other critical Intel.
Now it appears that Masse doesn't need Portman, and the
computer drive with the Intel is nowhere to be found. But
before Portman can make arrangements to leave the country,
he receives a phone call from Andre Masse himself. If Masse
is still alive, who's the dead man on the sixth floor?
When Marc begins to make some inquiries, he finds there are
more parties involved than just the French. Now the British
are recruiting him to get Masse and the computer drive out
of the country as well. This proves to be no easy feat!
DARK ASSET is another installment in Adrian Magson's A Marc
Portman Thriller series. There is non-stop,
riveting action
from the very beginning. This is an international espionage
page-turner you won't be able to put down. Portman is a
strong, resourceful character. He is very good at his job, with
lots of international contacts on his side. The supporting
characters are a sundry lot, some are good guys, some are
bad guys and we're never sure just who can be trusted.
Although there are gun fights at just about every turn,
this is not a war being fought with only guns and bombs,
but also with technology. Several intelligence agencies
from several countries are involved here, each one trying
to get the upper hand, but each one also denying any
plausibility. Oh what a tangled web is being woven! Don't
miss it!
He's a professional shadow. A watcher who provides protection in potentially hostile situations. He works in the background, stays off the record. Often the people he's guarding have no idea he's there. Some people know him as Portman. Portman’s latest assignment is providing back-up for a French intelligence agent sent to recover a hard drive from one of the most dangerous cities on the planet: Mogadishu in Somalia. What he hasn’t been told is that the device records secret negotiations between two leading western nations and a hard-line terrorist organisation responsible for killing thousands of innocent people. When the decision is taken to abandon the talks, anybody in the know immediately becomes a target to be silenced. And Portman finds himself at the top of the list…
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