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Blackchain
(1999)(The Republic of Night)
(The second book in the Pascual Rose series)A novel by Dominic Martell
Pascual Rose - the elite counterterrorist turned deep-cover informant introduced in Dominic Martell's international thriller Lying Crying Dying - returns in this masterfully executed, unpredictable, suspenseful new adventure.
From the outset, when an over-friendly Frenchman - and total stranger - accosts the down-and-out Pascual in the shadowy nave of Santa Maria del Mar cathedral, deep menace lurks behind apparent danger. Nonetheless, a hundred thousand dollars and the threat of deadly exposure lure Pascual from portside Barcelona, where he has been hiding from his counterterrorist past, to the banking precincts of Paris, where he again confronts it.
Hired by French intelligence (the DGSE, Pascual thinks, not correctly) to finger a one-time comrade and now an entrepreneur in global terrorism, Pascual finds himself hurled into Algerian factional warfare and charmed by an earnest Algerian journalist, who weds her destiny to his. She gets more than a story, however, as she follows Pascual into a perilous world where your closest ally may be your traitor and the enemy your lifeline, where bullets are common currency and nothing is more certain than a lie.
Least certain of all to the increasingly beleaguered Pascual is the identity of the real heavyweights. He knows only that beyond Algerian death squads, beyond the long arm of the Russian conglomerate Mirakl, beyond French security agents and the Swiss police, operates a faceless cadre that acknowledges no borders and honors no bonds.
Genre: Mystery
From the outset, when an over-friendly Frenchman - and total stranger - accosts the down-and-out Pascual in the shadowy nave of Santa Maria del Mar cathedral, deep menace lurks behind apparent danger. Nonetheless, a hundred thousand dollars and the threat of deadly exposure lure Pascual from portside Barcelona, where he has been hiding from his counterterrorist past, to the banking precincts of Paris, where he again confronts it.
Hired by French intelligence (the DGSE, Pascual thinks, not correctly) to finger a one-time comrade and now an entrepreneur in global terrorism, Pascual finds himself hurled into Algerian factional warfare and charmed by an earnest Algerian journalist, who weds her destiny to his. She gets more than a story, however, as she follows Pascual into a perilous world where your closest ally may be your traitor and the enemy your lifeline, where bullets are common currency and nothing is more certain than a lie.
Least certain of all to the increasingly beleaguered Pascual is the identity of the real heavyweights. He knows only that beyond Algerian death squads, beyond the long arm of the Russian conglomerate Mirakl, beyond French security agents and the Swiss police, operates a faceless cadre that acknowledges no borders and honors no bonds.
Genre: Mystery
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