Deadly States (Seaforth Files by Nicholas P Clark Book 2)

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1979, County Down, Northern Ireland
1
CapeTown, South Africa, 1994
19
The Dust Settles
30
Warrior’s Way
40
The End of Civilisation
48
Cannon to the left of them...
⁵⁴
Ghosts of Christmases Past
⁶¹
Class Reunion
⁶⁸
The Enemy of My Enemy...
⁷⁹
To have and to Hold
⁹⁷
The Devil is in the Detail
¹⁰⁵
Rogue Agent
¹²⁸
The Devil’s Own
¹³⁸
Shadows of History
¹⁴⁶
The Gift Horse
¹⁵⁵
Forbidden Love
¹⁶⁴
The Nest of Evil
¹⁸¹
The End of the Affair
¹⁹⁹

Eighteen soldiers dead, at least, and with the sound of bullets still
ringing in his ears, Jack Malaney
once again found himself with an
impossible
decision to
make.
He looked
past the MI5 agent at the
bullet riddled lorry. The front
of the vehicle was smouldering and two
army technical
officers were approaching it
cautiously
so that they
could examine the unstable device inside the vehicle. Scores of people
had been saved that day
because of his bravery and intelligence, but
with so many
dead, Jack found it hard to feel that he had achieved
something worth celebrating. The question from the MI5
officer was
more like an assertion that Jack had failed, rather than a sincere request from one colleague to another.
You messed up and we are giving
you the opportunity to do better
. He had already given all he had to the
operation; he wasn’t sure that he had the strength left to give anything
more.

“We need an answer
now, Jack. I
know
it’s short
notice. I
know
you have been through hell today already, and over the last few years;
but you know that we wouldn’t ask this
of you if we had any
other
choice. It’s either you, or no one.”