The Break Line

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Frederick Forsyth meets Heart of Darkness in this richly imagined, brutally compelling thriller 'Andy McNab meets Heart of Darkness. A brutally compelling thriller' Mail on Sunday Officially, Max McLean doesn't exist. That protects his British masters, but it hasn't stopped them losing faith in him. Given one last chance to prove he's still their man, Max is sent to a military research facility to visit the bravest soldier he ever knew. But this former comrade-in-arms is locked up for his own protection, having lost his mind in an operation in West Africa. The reason? Absolute mortal terror. Max's mission is to find out why. Acting alone, Max lands in Sierra Leone with his friend's final words ringing in his ears- 'They're coming, Max. They're coming . . .' 'A taut, razor-edged thriller, packed with authenticity' James Swallow, bestselling author of Nomad 'Echoes of Joseph Conrad and Frederick Forsyth's Dogs of War- not for the faint-hearted' Daily Mail

James Brabazon is an award-winning frontline journalist and documentary filmmaker. Based in London, he has travelled in over seventy countries, investigating, filming and directing in the world's most hostile environments. His awards include the Rory Peck Trust International Impact Award, the Rory Peck Freelancer's choice Award, the IDA Courage Under Fire Award and the FPA's TV News Story of the Year. He has made over thirty films broadcast by the BBC, Channel 4, HBO, CNN and the Discovery Channel. He lectures on the ethics and practicalities of reporting from war zones and his reportage has been published in the Observer and the Guardian. He is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir My Friend the Mercenary. The Break Line is his first novel.

A thriller of an unusually classy calibre. Eloquently written, intensively researched ... Brabazon has crafted hugely gripping, thought-provoking yarn, grounding its outlandish elements in solid realism and vivid characterisation * Financial Times * The Break Line delivers a full-throttle exercise in tension * Crimetime * The Break Line is a distillation of a quarter of a century of travel with a camera in one and and a notebook in the other. Set in Sierra Leone, it sees Special Forces veteran Mac McLean on a mission that is non-routine even by his own black ops standards . . . It's so twisty and multilayered it would be easy to imagine it as a computer game. * Mail on Sunday * Echoes of Joseph Conrad & Frederick Forsyth's Dogs of War: not for the faint-hearted, as ferocious a portrait of an assassin as you will find * Daily Mail * Veteran war correspondent Brabazon brings his experience of the world's most dangerous places to this brutally compelling thriller . . . Andy McNab meets Heart of Darkness * Mail on Sunday * A natural-born writer . . . strong, lucid, non-stop suspense -- Ted Bell New York Times Bestselling author of Overkill The Break Line punches you in the stomach on the first page and then plunges you into the most extraordinary and exciting world of covert operations that I have ever read . I have worked in those places and covered those wars... Brabazon's novel gets it exactly right. With a terrifyingly precise eye and an irresistible prose style, he has creates a world that is almost impossible to leave. I finished the book three days ago and feel like I'm still waiting for the choppers to come take me home... * Sebastian Junger * A taut, razor-edged thriller, packed with granular detail and authenticity * James Swallow, author of Nomad * Beautifully written and extensively researched, The Break Line is a riveting page-turner, a gruesome delight, and a study of what lies in the shadowed corners of the human heart * Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X * Brimming with authenticity, tightly plotted and beautifully written ... The Break Line is a belter of a thriller * Fiona Cummins, author of Rattle * The Break Line is insanely immersive, brilliantly blurring the lines between fiction and reality. I couldn't put it down' * Tom Marcus, No.1 bestselling author of Soldier Spy * Breathless, complex, and seriously hardcore - don't plan to sleep tonight. * Lee Child * Taut, tough and visceral - and, most of all, written with a breath-taking authenticity' * RAYMOND KHOURY, Bestselling author of The Last Templar * A natural-born writer...strong, lucid, non-stop suspense * Ted Bell, New York Times Bestselling Author of Overkill * A wonderfully crafted story of action, history, and secrets that is as imaginative as it is compelling -- Steve Berry A brilliant debut thriller. He knows how to hook a reader and keep them hoovering up pages * Nudge *