This tale is of course fiction, well most of it is. As has been pointed out to me by people who know about these things, there is nothing in this book which serious terrorists could not do. Maybe not quite on the scale suggested here, but who knows? On the other hand, much of what was available to the security forces to help counter the attacks, either does not exist or they are not allowed to use. The levels of political and judicial interference are real enough, in real life these simply have to be lived with. Many of the problems in real life counter terrorism arise from the need of a...

Just as Paul, the former commander of the elite All Arms Unit was beginning to settle into retirement, events, not for the first time, decreed otherwise. Wide spread attacks on commanders of anti-terrorist units threatened to totally destabilise the intelligence communities of much of the developed world. As to who was behind these attacks, there were few clues. Taking out the squads of strange 'hit men' was hard enough, getting at those behind it all was another matter. Then, as always in such episodes, chance intervened, with often unexpected and painful consequences, have the gods of...