In a world built on lies, who can you trust...?
Hugh Dermot Ryan, an ageing ex-double agent, has swapped the dangerous world of criminals for a quiet life running an exclusive health farm in the heart of the Cotswolds.
But he yearns for the stimulating sense of danger, bored of the mundane and hungry for action.
His desire for change comes sooner than he expects: with the arrival of the neurotic, alcoholic, megalomaniac widow of one of the Caribbean's most brutal dictators, Madame Achar.
Arriving at Ryan's retreat under the guise of 'rest and relaxation', she soon embroils Ryan in a thrilling and dangerous plot.
Achar, also known as La Vuelva, wants to seize back the power her husband lost to a Marxist revolutionary, Gallo.
She has made plans to overthrow the tyrannical regime with weapons of biological warfare.
Into the mix is thrown a psychopathic international terrorist, who fights for one reason only - not money, not politics, but a crazy lust for blood and power...
But when they all arrive on the Caribbean Island where they hope to carry out their mission, a devastating earthquake rips through the land, throwing the country into a state of chaos.
And in such unpredictable circumstances, anything could happen...
'Compulsively exciting' - Sunday Express, on The Beria Papers
'A brilliantly written and exciting novel' - Sunday Express, on Barbouze
Alan Emlyn Williams (born 1935) is an ex-foreign correspondent, novelist and writer of thrillers. He was educated at Stowe, Grenoble and Heidelberg Universities, and at King's College, Cambridge where he graduated in 1957 with a B.A. in modern languages. His father was the actor and writer Emlyn Williams. Noel Coward was his godfather. His younger brother Brook (1938 - 2005) was also an actor.
Williams was briefly married to literary agent Maggie Noach (1949 - 2006) Together they compiled The Dictionary of Disgusting Facts. Journalist Philippa Toomey describes him as a "talented and funny mimic with a gift for words and a stock of tales from the shaggy Express story to the grimmer side of international journalism."
Genre: Historical
Hugh Dermot Ryan, an ageing ex-double agent, has swapped the dangerous world of criminals for a quiet life running an exclusive health farm in the heart of the Cotswolds.
But he yearns for the stimulating sense of danger, bored of the mundane and hungry for action.
His desire for change comes sooner than he expects: with the arrival of the neurotic, alcoholic, megalomaniac widow of one of the Caribbean's most brutal dictators, Madame Achar.
Arriving at Ryan's retreat under the guise of 'rest and relaxation', she soon embroils Ryan in a thrilling and dangerous plot.
Achar, also known as La Vuelva, wants to seize back the power her husband lost to a Marxist revolutionary, Gallo.
She has made plans to overthrow the tyrannical regime with weapons of biological warfare.
Into the mix is thrown a psychopathic international terrorist, who fights for one reason only - not money, not politics, but a crazy lust for blood and power...
But when they all arrive on the Caribbean Island where they hope to carry out their mission, a devastating earthquake rips through the land, throwing the country into a state of chaos.
And in such unpredictable circumstances, anything could happen...
Praise for Alan Williams
'Compulsively exciting' - Sunday Express, on The Beria Papers
'A brilliantly written and exciting novel' - Sunday Express, on Barbouze
Alan Emlyn Williams (born 1935) is an ex-foreign correspondent, novelist and writer of thrillers. He was educated at Stowe, Grenoble and Heidelberg Universities, and at King's College, Cambridge where he graduated in 1957 with a B.A. in modern languages. His father was the actor and writer Emlyn Williams. Noel Coward was his godfather. His younger brother Brook (1938 - 2005) was also an actor.
Williams was briefly married to literary agent Maggie Noach (1949 - 2006) Together they compiled The Dictionary of Disgusting Facts. Journalist Philippa Toomey describes him as a "talented and funny mimic with a gift for words and a stock of tales from the shaggy Express story to the grimmer side of international journalism."
Genre: Historical
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