The Englishman

Resumen del libro

'The pulse-pounding pace just never lets up' PETER MAY, bestsellling author of LOCKDOWN. Penal Colony No. 74, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Sverdlovskaya Oblast.

Imprisoning the country's most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellhole of death and retribution. And that's exactly why the Englishman is there. Six years ago, Raglan was a soldier in the French Foreign Legion engaged in a hard-fought war on the desert border of Mali and Algeria.

Amid black ops teams and competing intelligence agencies, his strike squad was compromised and Raglan himself severely injured. His war was over, but the deadly aftermath of that day has echoed around the world ever since: the assassination of four Moscow CID officers; kidnap and murder on the suburban streets of West London; the fatal compromise of a long-running MI6 operation. Raglan can't avoid the shockwaves.

This is personal. It is up to him to finish it - and it ends in Russia's most notorious penal colony. But how do you break into a high security prison in the middle of nowhere? More importantly, how do you get out?

Biografía del autor

Hombre polifacético: ha trabajado como bombero, fotógrafo, soldado del regimiento de paracaidistas Reconnaisance Platoon e incluso como director de marketing en una editorial sudafricana. También ha escrito muchos guiones para la televisión, entre los que destacan sus historia A Touch of Frost. Durante muchos años ha vivido y viajado por todo el mundo buscando inspiración para sus series y novelas. En la actualidad, David vive en Devonshire con su mujer, tres gatos y un Land Rover viejo.