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Zusatztext "A real spy proves he is a real writer-and a truly deft and inventive one. This is a stunning debut." Informationen zum Autor As an MI6 field officer! Matthew Dunn recruited and ran agents! coordinated and participated in special operations! and acted in deep-cover roles throughout the world. He operated in environments where! if captured! he would have been executed. Dunn was trained in all aspects of intelligence collection! deep- cover deployments! small arms! explosives! military unarmed combat! surveillance! and infiltration. Medals are never awarded to modern MI6 officers! but Dunn was the recipient of a rare personal commendation from the secretary of state for work he did on one mission! which was deemed so significant that it directly influenced the success of a major international incident. During his time in MI6! Matthew conducted approximately seventy missions. All of them were successful. He currently lives in England! where he is at work on his next novel. Klappentext The United States and Russia are on the brink of war and only Will Cochrane—the master spy introduced in the critically acclaimed Spycatcher —can find and unmask the diabolical double agent responsible in this enthralling espionage thriller! written by a real-life former field officer. Fourteen days ago! CIA headquarters in Virginia received a cryptic message from an agent operating deep undercover. Unable to make contact! they were forced to turn to their deadliest operative—Will Cochrane. His mission is simple: infiltrate the remote submarine base in Russia! locate the MI6 agent operating under the code name Svelte! and decode his message—or die trying. But now Svelte is dead. And it's up to Cochrane to uncover the meaning of his final message . . . and discover the identity of the man known only as "Sentinel." Zusammenfassung “Great talent! great imagination! and real been-there done-that authenticity.” —Lee Child “Not since Fleming charged Bond with the safety of the world has the international secret agent mystique been so anchored with an insider’s reality.” —Noah Boyd! author of The Bricklayer and Agent X Matthew Dunn knows his spycraft—and he proves it once again in Sentinel ! his second electrifying Spycatcher novel. A former British M16 field officer trained in all aspects of intelligence collection! small-arms and explosives! military unarmed combat! and more! Dunn has an addition talent most other spies lack: he can really write! In Sentinel ! Dunn brings back Agent Will Cochrane—whom Kirkus Reviews calls! “a Nietzschean hero who looks poised to give Lee Child’s Jack Reacher a run for his readers”—and sends him to Avacha Bay in eastern Russia! where he must infiltrate a top-secret submarine base! decode a cryptic message from a deep undercover operative! and quite possibly prevent a devastating war. Espionage fiction fans who regularly devour the works of Daniel Silva! Robert Ludlum! Alex Berenson! Ted Bell! Brad Thor! Vince Flynn! and Barry Eisler will discover there’s a new ace on the international thriller scene. ...
