Condition Black - Softcover

'Gripping, informative and well-paced' (Independent)

'Combines the landscapes and rugged manhunts of Geoffrey Household with the dispassionate sniper's eye of Eric Ambler' (The Times)

'I would class this book with the first-rate achievements of Graham Greene, Charles McCarry and Le Carré' (Chicago Tribune)

'Gives the many-sided suspense story such a wealth of factual detail, it is in the same class as Frederick Forsyth's best' (Daily Mail)

It is the last month before Iraq is to invade Kuwait, and Saddam Hussein has instructed his scientists to stop at nothing to arm his nation with nuclear warheads. As Frederick Bissett, a disaffected British weapons scientist, is on the point of seizing the Iraqi bait, the only man to stand in the way of a total collapse of the Middle Eastern military balance is a young FBI operative, Bill Erlich - a man who has just seen a close friend gunned down by a terrorist, though, and is hard on the heels of the assassin. As he blunders into the lines by which the Iraqi puppet-masters control their undercover agents in England, he is faced with a last and inevitable confrontation and recognises that he has gone beyond the point of recall: he is engaged in what his FBI training has taught him to call 'Condition Black', lethal assault in progress.