Description

In this fourth book, the eagerly awaited sequel to When Twilight Ends, the anti-hero Adam Collins – now Aiden Carter – is in his new role as Head of Security (Asia) for a major US investment group and resident in Tokyo. Suddenly, after four years, ‘the Office’ – the Secret Intelligence Service aka M16 – has reappeared in his life with a proposition. He was to find this ‘favour’ involved a kidnapped teenage girl, the daughter of a media mogul in Tokyo. The brief: locate and extract – alive if possible. With his female partner, on loan from Japanese intelligence, Adam must revert to his previous life to negotiate a dangerous path through the clans of the Yakusa – the Japanese mafia – with an unknown ‘mole’ attempting to block them at every turn, including rendering them ‘inoperable’. In a race against time, they must travel the length of Japan, with their lives in increasing danger at every turn. The author is noted for the depth of information and accurate detail in his writing, taking the reader on a rollercoaster ride into the world of international intelligence and the Japanese underworld. Although this book is classified as fiction, the author leaves it to the reader to identify the facts from the fiction.