Geoffrey Archer
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The Burma Legacy
The jungle still holds bloody secrets
Fifty-five years after the end of World War Two, the Burmese jungle still holds bloody secrets...
When wealthy businessman and former Japanese POW interrogator Tetsuo Kamata offers to make reparation for abusing his Allied prisoners, he is recognised by former POW Peregrine Harrison. Harrison never got over his maltreatment at Kamata’s hands and has dreamed of killing him ever since. Now he has his chance.
MI6 officer Sam Packer is diverted from his hunt for an ex-SAS drug trader and given the order to stop Harrison. The search takes him deep into Harrison’s past and to the poppy fields of the Golden Triangle. To save Kamata from execution Packer must penetrate an alien and hostile world, a quest which brings him face to face with the very drug lords who have sworn to kill him...
‘Wonderfully authentic’ The Times
‘A thriller writer who has actually been there’ Chris Ryan
Praise For Fire Hawk
`The suspense is sizzling, Geoffrey Archer has again used his ITN experience in a sinuous mix of international threats that are coming to have the same chill-factor as the fear that underpinned the best Cold War thrillers’ Daily Telegraph
Praise For Java Spider
`A plot constructed with devilish cunning’ Daily Telegraph
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First British Edition Century (2001) |
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The Lucifer Network
MI6 agent Sam Packer watches powerlessly as a trouble-making gunrunner is shot down in front of him on a lonely road in Zambia. As life slips from his grasp the arms smuggler whispers a heartstopping warning to Sam: a terrorist gang has a horror weapon and means to commit mass murder.
But the man dies before naming the gang, its nationality or its cause. Is the weapon nuclear, chemical or biological? The world’s intelligence agencies are desperate to know. Packer has his own ideas about how to crack the case and is convinced that Julie, the gunrunner’s daughter has been given the answers. In turn, she suspects Packer to be her father’s murderer.
The two are thrust together in an unlikely pairing as world events threaten to spiral out of control. Packer is convinced the key still lies with Julie. Only by winning her confidence can he break the ring of silence and penetrate to the heart of the sinister organization known as The Lucifer Network.
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First British Edition Century (1998) |
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Fire Hawk
Fire Hawk, Geoffrey Archer's sixth thriller, sees him writing at his very best. Drawing heavily on his long career as a frontline reporter for ITV's award-winning news programmes, he has written an extremely gripping thriller with a frightening ring of plausibility.
Sam Packer, a former naval officer, now works for the Intelligence Service. Working under cover in Baghdad, he is tipped off about a shocking and devastating development - anthrax warheads have been smuggled out of Iraq, despite monitoring by the UN's weapons inspection teams. However, before Packer gets a chance to pass this information back to HQ he is taken hostage by what he presumes are the Iraqi secret police. Tortured by his captors he is convinced he is going to be executed but suddenly he's freed in a surprise swap for an Iraqi defector.
It was his ex-lover, Chrissie, now married to a senior Intelligence Service Official, who instigated his release. Packer is convinced that his arrest in Baghdad was because someone betrayed him - only Chrissie can tell him the truth but he never gets the chance to question her about it as she's shockingly murdered, the apparent victim of a sex killing. Determined to find out who killed Chrissie, Packer gradually uncovers a frightening and murky past which brings him to the realisation that there was a dark and dangerous side to Chrissie that she'd always kept hidden from him. Professional and personal priorities clash as Packer follows a deadly trail through the Middle East, Cyprus and the Ukraine, searching for Chrissie's killer and for the deadly anthrax weapon - codenamed Fire Hawk - that threatens global conflict.
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Java Spider
In Java Spider a British government minister is kidnapped while negotiating an arms sale to Indonesia. Horrific pictures of him are satellited to a UK TV station. Two people are ordered to find him, Nick Randall of Special Branch and TV reporter Charlotte Cavendish. When their paths cross, expediency brings them together physically and emotionally to penetrate a remote Indonesian island which is a powder keg of armed rebellion.
About The Author
In His Own Words...
It all started as a result of overload. Too much fascinating information picked up as Defence Correspondent for News at Ten, which couldn’t be squeezed into those two minute slots introduced by T McD and his predecessors. So I decided to try turning what I’d learned into a thriller – something many journalists spend their lives thinking about anyway. Fortunately it worked out okay. My first three books were full of naval techno-speak and seemed to go down well with my readers.
Then I moved into international crime and terrorism – as a newsman I was always more interested in what went on in other countries than in this one. And Sam Packer came into my life, MI6 freelance and good-all-round-bloke, who has an unfortunate habit of falling for the wrong woman. Sam’s first outing in Fire Hawk, where he gets to grips with Iraqi dissidents armed with biological weapons, was shortlisted by the Crime Writers Association for the Gold Dagger award. And that first contact with the CWA made me think hard about what sort of books I was writing. Crime or thriller? I think they’re both. There’s certainly a strong “whodunit” element in The Lucifer Network, Sam Packer’s second adventure. But his third, The Burma Legacy is more back in the thriller genre again.
Do I miss the TV news business which I left in 1995 after more than 25 years holding a microphone? Not at all. I had the privilege of working on News at Ten when it was the news programme to watch and was winning plaudits all over the world. Sadly for ITN and its viewers, times have changed.
Geoffrey Archer is the former Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent for ITN's award-winning News at Ten television programme. His work as a frontline broadcaster has provided him with the deep background for his eight critically acclaimed novels. The Burma Legacy, The Lucifer Network, Fire Hawk, Java Spider, Scorpion Trail, Eagletrap, Shadowhunter, Skydancer.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
The Burma Legacy
(Century,
2002)
Arrow Pbk Aug 02
(Sam Packer)
The Lucifer Network
(Century,
2001)
Arrow Pbk Apr 02
(Sam Packer)
Fire Hawk
(Century,
1998)
shortlisted for the Crime Writers Gold Dagger Award in 1998
Arrow Pbk May 99
(Sam Packer)
Java Spider
(Century,
1996)
Arrow Pbk 1997
Scorpion Trail
(Century,
1995)
Eagle Trap
(Century,
1993)
Shadow Hunter
(Century,
1989)
Sky Dancer
(Century,
1987)
The Burma Legacy
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