The Network

The Network

by JasonElliot (Author)

Synopsis

The world is about to change...In the months leading up to 9/11 the intelligence community is on high alert for terrorist threats. Former army officer Anthony Taverner is recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service for an apparently straightforward mission: to destroy a cache of the CIA's precious Stinger missiles in Taliban-held Afghanistan. But in the kaleidoscopic world of spying, nothing is what it seems. And as the struggle to avert a catastrophe begins, Taverner's allegiance is to an authority he must keep secret from even his closest allies.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 05 Jul 2010

ISBN 10: 140880347X
ISBN 13: 9781408803479
Book Overview: An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan was a New York Times bestseller and won the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award. This drop-dead thriller reaches far deeper inside the world of MI6 training and experience than most, and the writing is of the highest quality. A well-known travel writer in the vein of William Dalrymple and Philip Marsden. Review coverage guaranteed.

Media Reviews
'Fast-paced and strikingly authentic' Stella Rimington, former Director-General of MI5 'As sharp as Frederick Forsyth - as exotic as Wilbur Smith' Jason Goodwin, author of The Janissary Tree Praise for An Unexpected Light: 'I am sure this book will soon be among the classics of travel' Doris Lessing Praise for Mirrors of the Unseen: 'Like Byron, Elliot displays a daring approach to form ... indubitably important. It is a work of profound thought, imagination, passion and ambition. It should be widely read' Guardian
Author Bio
Jason Elliot is an prize-winning British travel writer , whose works include An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award , and Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran. The Network is his first novel.