A top security prison 100 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico more secure than Guantanamo Bay or Alcatraz and far from prying eyes has some disturbing secrets. The CIA are using it as an interrogation centre, the warden is corrupt and wants to destroy it, the FBI are conducting operations to expose them both, the White House has a spy inside and wants to close it down any way it can and an insane convict wants to scuttle it in order to escape. On top of all of that, a secret micro-document belonging to British Military Intelligence embarrassingly ends up in the hands of a Taliban terrorist incarcerated within the prison and Stratton, SBS maritime Special Forces operative, is assigned to get it back before the Americans find out. Inevitably, this is a typical Falconer story that kicks off at a thousand miles an hour and does not slow down until beyond the end.
After an upbringing in an orphanage in North London he moved to Battersea where he lived and went to school and at 17 joined the Royal Marines. Due to a series of unusual circumstances he found himself attending the Special Boat Squadron selection in Poole, Dorset at just 19 years old. Out of almost 150 men, he and 8 others managed to get through the gruelling selection course. He subsequently went on to serve a dozen years in the SBS, many of them as an anti-terrorist undercover operator.He was a pioneer of modern maritime counter terrorism and was involved in operations during the Falklan...
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