Lies and Retribution

Alex King, Book 2

MI5 agents have been executed and more agents have been abducted with no terms received from the kidnappers. An MI5 analyst is missing having accessed and downloaded prohibited security data. The trial of notorious radical cleric Mullah Al-Shaqqaf collapses, his extradition falls apart. A man known to have funded ISIS, recruit fighters for Syria and coerce teenagers to martyr themselves. Again he walks free. The hunt for a nuclear warhead stolen 10 years ago has led Russian intelligence to London. One man connects them all....

When retired MI6 operative Alex King is contacted by the deputy director of MI5 with a proposition, he feels compelled to act. His brief is illegal, his actions unprecedented. The law and the courts have failed. Time and events are against the nation's intelligence services and the battle can no longer be fought by the rules. Britain's enemies will soon find the game has changed. As MI5 agent Caroline Darby investigates with the help of a seasoned Scotland Yard detective she soon starts to look through the elaborate misdirection and discovers the horrifying truth....

©2016 Anthony Bateman (P)2017 Anthony Bateman

Not all is as it seems.

Not as good as the first novel, but entertaining nevertheless. Some really good chapters kept me going. I will definitely be reading/ listening to the next in the series. Alex comes across as a very likable assassin. Hopefully more depth to him next novel.