For a dare, two small boys climb over the wall into the Duke of Cranbornes estate in Hampshire. Both boys are armed with air guns, but what starts as a dare ends in blind terror for one of them as he stumbles in the dark across the body of a man whose head has been blown off. The man is a BID agent, and his death jeopardizes the security of a shoot organized for the prime ministers of several countries before the G20 Summit in London. John Gunn replaces the murdered agent and has to unravel a conspiracy involving nuclear weapons and drugs. From the lush grounds of the Cranborne estate in Hampshire to the bleak and inhospitable mountains of Pakistans North-West Frontier Province, Gunns assignment moves at breakneck speed to prevent the nuclear weapons reaching the Taliban and the heroin reaching the streets of the UK.
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Brian Nicholson served with the British Army for thirty-five years and retired as a colonel in 1997. For the last ten years of his service, he worked with the officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service in Africa and Southeast Asia, and it is this experience which forms the backdrop to his books. He was awarded the OBE by HM the Queen for his outstanding performance as a commanding officer. He has now written nine spy thriller books featuring the British agent, John Gunn. Brian Nicholson lives in Richmond, West London. Both his daughters are married, and he has just become a grandfather for the first time. When not writing, Brian Nicholson plays golf, shoots during the season from September to January, paints, and is a volunteer worker for local charities.