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![]() | Games Traitors Play (2011) (The second book in the Daniel Marchant series) A novel by Jon Stock |
| "Exactly what we need from a spy novel now." Lee Child |
Re-inventing the spy story for the 21st Century.
John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne!
Salim Dhar is the world's most wanted terrorist. The CIA is under pressure to hunt him down, after he narrowly failed to kill the US president. The borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan are the target of relentless drone strikes. Echelon, the West's intelligence analysis network, is in meltdown, monitoring all channels for the faintest trace of Dhar. But no one can find him. Only Daniel Marchant, renegade MI6 officer, knows where he is.
Marchant has been living in Marrakech, listening to the traditional Berber storytellers as they enthral tourists with tales from The Arabian Nights. Marchant believes that Dhar has shunned technology, retreating to old customs:coded messages for Dhar are being embedded in ancient narratives.
When a man flees from the square, Marchant pursues him up into the Atlas Mountains, where he sees an unmarked military helicopter take off and head east. Is someone shielding Dhar to perpetrate an act of proxy terrorism on the West? Or is the CIA right when it claims to have killed him?
To discover the truth, Marchant must be recruited by Moscow. But Marcus Fielding, erudite Chief of MI6, doubts that his young intelligence officer has the mental strength to be a double agent. It's a role that will require him to believe his late father was a traitor, an allegation that Marchant fought long and hard to dispel. Now he must rekindle those rumours and confront dark truths about his own loyalties. He must also work with Lakshmi Meena, the CIA's beautiful new liaison officer in London. Can he ever trust a woman-or an American-again after being betrayed by her predecessor?
As Britain braces itself for an airborne terrorist attack, Marchant survives torture in Morocco and India in his bid to find and stop Dhar. Will family ties ultimately prove more binding than ideology? In an absorbing thriller that combines the nuances of Cold War Le Carre with the ejector-seat excitement of Top Gun, Marchant discovers that treachery is the greatest game of all.
Genre: Thriller
John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne!
Salim Dhar is the world's most wanted terrorist. The CIA is under pressure to hunt him down, after he narrowly failed to kill the US president. The borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan are the target of relentless drone strikes. Echelon, the West's intelligence analysis network, is in meltdown, monitoring all channels for the faintest trace of Dhar. But no one can find him. Only Daniel Marchant, renegade MI6 officer, knows where he is.
Marchant has been living in Marrakech, listening to the traditional Berber storytellers as they enthral tourists with tales from The Arabian Nights. Marchant believes that Dhar has shunned technology, retreating to old customs:coded messages for Dhar are being embedded in ancient narratives.
When a man flees from the square, Marchant pursues him up into the Atlas Mountains, where he sees an unmarked military helicopter take off and head east. Is someone shielding Dhar to perpetrate an act of proxy terrorism on the West? Or is the CIA right when it claims to have killed him?
To discover the truth, Marchant must be recruited by Moscow. But Marcus Fielding, erudite Chief of MI6, doubts that his young intelligence officer has the mental strength to be a double agent. It's a role that will require him to believe his late father was a traitor, an allegation that Marchant fought long and hard to dispel. Now he must rekindle those rumours and confront dark truths about his own loyalties. He must also work with Lakshmi Meena, the CIA's beautiful new liaison officer in London. Can he ever trust a woman-or an American-again after being betrayed by her predecessor?
As Britain braces itself for an airborne terrorist attack, Marchant survives torture in Morocco and India in his bid to find and stop Dhar. Will family ties ultimately prove more binding than ideology? In an absorbing thriller that combines the nuances of Cold War Le Carre with the ejector-seat excitement of Top Gun, Marchant discovers that treachery is the greatest game of all.
Genre: Thriller
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Hardback Editions
March 2012 : Hardback
| Title: Games Traitors Play (Daniel Marchant Thriller) Author(s):: Jon Stock ISBN: 0312644779 / 9780312644772 (USA edition) Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
March 2011 : Hardback
| Title: Games Traitors Play Author(s):: Jon Stock ISBN: 0007300727 / 9780007300723 (UK edition) Publisher: Blue Door Availability: Amazon CA Amazon UK Amazon |
Paperback Editions
September 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Games Traitors Play Author(s):: Jon Stock ISBN: 0007300743 / 9780007300747 (UK edition) Publisher: Blue Door Availability: Amazon CA Amazon UK |
August 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Games Traitors Play Author(s):: Jon Stock ISBN: 0007413025 / 9780007413027 (UK edition) Publisher: Blue Door Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
April 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Games Traitors Play Author(s):: Jon Stock ISBN: 0007444311 / 9780007444311 (UK edition) Publisher: Blue Door Availability: Amazon UK |
March 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Games Traitors Play Author(s):: Jon Stock ISBN: 0007300735 / 9780007300730 (UK edition) Publisher: Blue Door Availability: Amazon UK Amazon |
Audio Editions
February 2011 : Audio CD
| Title: Games Traitors Play (Unabridged Audiobook) Author(s):: Jon Stock, narrated by Paul Panting ISBN: 140747149X / 9781407471495 (UK edition) Publisher: Whole Story Audio Books Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
Kindle Editions
March 2012 : Kindle edition
| Title: Games Traitors Play (A Daniel Marchant Thriller) Author(s):: Jon Stock ISBN: B00603PJ5C Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Availability: Amazon |
March 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: Games Traitors Play Author(s):: Jon Stock ISBN: B004P1JERK Publisher: Blue Door Availability: Amazon UK |
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