Dear Reader,
The Code started life as a novella, a short prequel to introduce my protagonist, Angus McKinnon. But as can happen, the plot began to be dictated by the characters and a complete novel has emerged. Here’s the “blurb” to give you an idea of what it’s all about. The book is now available on Amazon in paperback and e-book format:
A spy swap in the Syrian desert, a pirate attack in the Sulu Sea, a devastating confrontation in the Balkans …
Beirut 1963: Kim Philby defects to Moscow. As he boards his Soviet escape ship, unnoticed, a young ship’s officer, passes him on the quayside. Valdis Ozols is disenchanted, idealistic and susceptible. And two men are waiting for him.
Drawn into the shadowy world of espionage and a lifetime of deception and danger, Valdis reaches his lowest ebb in the harsh surroundings of a post-Soviet prison – until a ship’s bosun and fellow inmate, Angus McKinnon, becomes the Latvian’s trusted friend and confidante.
Together, the two men must break out and thwart a plan to annihilate a war-torn Balkan city. In doing so, an impossible choice must be made between the murder of tens of thousands of innocent citizens and the horrific killing of a young woman.
The Code spans the Cold War and beyond, from the Cuban missile crisis to the dawn of the Millennium.
And it introduces us to marine investigator, Angus McKinnon and how he becomes entangled in the world of life-and-death espionage before confronting further hazardous assignments in Sea of Gold, Dark Ocean and Black Reef.
E-book and paperback editions: https://amzn.to/
“Nick Elliott delivers in spades when it comes to fast-paced, intelligent, international thrillers. You feel, smell and touch every authentically crafted location; you’re expertly drawn into a maze of shadows and sinister organizations and characters where nothing is what it seems. This really is thriller writing of the highest calibre.”
Craig Russell, award-winning author of the critically acclaimed Jan Fabel and Lennox crime thrillers.
I hope you enjoy reading this fourth thriller in the Angus McKinnon series as much as I have in writing it.
With best wishes,
Nick