Today the global war against terrorism has become a desperate, life-or-death struggle for the western democracies. In the armed chaos that is the post-Cold War world, the stakes have never been higher, the consequence of defeat never more dire. And for British Intelligence the time has come to put moral scruples aside and throw the rulebook out of the window. Officially the organisation known as Executive Support doesn’t exist. But for its scores of far from innocent victims it is all too real. Its aim: to terrorize the terrorists, its nickname: the Dead Headers. And now the Dead Headers are facing their biggest challenge yet – a terrifying conspiracy that leads the Dead Headers from a secretive German pharmaceuticals company to an Iraqi biological weapons base in the Libyan desert, from a gruesome sex-murder in London’s Hammersmith to a power struggle at the heart of the Iranian regime. And by the time the final piece is in place, the fate of millions will have been decided…
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Praise for James H Jackson: 'A thriller that cunningly utilises Jackson's previous career to produce a novel that has real energy and pace... fresh and innovative... A narrative of genuine tension is guaranteed for the reader. And Jackson's conjuring up of his frigid locale will have you pleasurably shivering
Jackson puts his experience as an international defence and political risk consultant to good use in this believable thriller...Cracking, fast-paced yarn
A tense, well-researched, fast-paced and hard-nosed thriller
Gripping stuff
A home-grown rival to Tom Clancy