Chris
Fitzsimons
Author
My Novels
Suspense is the keynote in my stories. As one reviewer said when they first appeared, if you start reading in the evening, be prepared to stay up into the small hours.
Spring 1980.
A total security screen has been thrown around Edinburgh because as
the capital of the newest of the oil-producing countries, it has
been chosen as the site of their next international conference. The
British security services are confident every possible loophole has
been covered. The fact that a Palestinian group is sending its own
representative as a sign of good faith is a fair indication that
there will be no problems from that direction. The only disquieting
note is struck by Alec Martin, who has information, from an
impeccable source, that the city will come under a planned attack
during the opening ceremony — yet no one will heed his warning. He's
written off as at best a nuisance, at worst a crank. This nightmare
dilemma forces Alec Martin to an inescapable conclusion: as he is
the only person who believes in the threat, it is up to him, and him
alone, to take action to prevent it. Reluctantly, but driven to
near-desperation by the wall of opposition he encounters on all
sides, Alec Martin, an ordinary individual who knows nothing of the
subtleties and viciousness of the espionage game, accepts that in
his barely-remembered skill as a wartime fighter pilot, he holds the
key that will prevent a disaster of catastrophic proportions. But
has he the nerve, the ability, above all the conviction to use it ?
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It
is twelve years since Ernest Fisher defected to the West, twelve
years during which he has tried to elude his past -to forget the
wariness, the fear and the cunning that once made him a successful
undercover operative in the security service of his former homeland.
Twelve years in which he has gradually settled down to the quiet
anonymity of suburban life, an insurance clerk's job, a wife and
children. And during these years he has sought to bury the
bitterness which drove him to swear an oath of vengeance - never
fulfilled - on his former chief, the man who betrayed him. Now his
old enemy is visiting Britain in the new role of trade minister, and
Ernest Fisher is abruptly made aware that his own life is in mortal
peril - that the man he once swore to kill is protecting himself by
arranging to have Fisher eliminated. So begins this exciting novel
of suspense - one of the most gripping tales of hunter and the
hunted since Geoffrey Household's classic, Rogue Male. Running and
hiding, having to run again, Fisher is forced to re-learn his
almost-forgotten training in a desperate effort to save himself and
his family. For this hunting ground is no vast wilderness but the
streets of the city where an office, a car park ¬even his own home -
can hide a trap primed to snap shut on himself, his wife, his
children. As the enemy systematically blocks every avenue of escape,
Fisher turns into a cornered animal, consumed by the anger and fear
that first made him swear that oath to kill. Deftly and ingeniously,
with ever-mounting tension, Chris Fitzsimons leads us into the soul
of the hunted, until the moment when one finds the other in the
cross hairs of a telescopic sight...
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