James Adams
Hard Target
(large format paperback)Michael Joseph
Out 4 April 1996 (0 7181 4137 7) £9.99 See Review
From 'the natural successor to Frederick Forsyth' (Sunday
Telegraph) comes a breathtaking new thriller series creating a new spy for a new age.
Journalist and author James Adams's unrivalled knowledge of the intelligence world ensures
that fact merges with fiction to give a real picture of the high-tech business of post
Cold War counter-espionage.
On a lonely back road near a dead-beat town in Moscow's featureless hinterland, a
collector of dog corpses picks up the last victim of the night.
He cannot know that the next death will be his own, that it will be so sudden, so
horrifying. Because Genrikh Yagoda's bit part in a doomsday international drama is to
suffer and die from a deadly escaped virus that simply isn't supposed to exist.
From Russia to America to Britain, one man from MI6 co-ordinates the race to stop the
Russian Mafia from marketing a stockpile of biological weapons. Loner David Nash, knows
his way around the post Cold War world. Yesterday's foes have gone, replaced by a ruthless
new generation as skilled as Nash in the technology of tomorrow. The combat is deadly.
David Nash hardwires his human survival instincts to an electronic armoury as the chilling
endgame unfolds...
"One of the world's best defence journalists makes a stellar debut with a
first-class thriller" Tom Clancy (of The Final Terror) "Sheer
ability to keep the reader's attention. Excellent" Mail on Sunday (of Taking
the Tunnel)