Editore: macmillan, 2009
ISBN 10: 1405039248 ISBN 13: 9781405039246
Da: Caryota Book Exchange, Darwin, NT, Australia
Soft cover. Condizione: Good.
Editore: Pan Australia, 2009
ISBN 10: 1405039248 ISBN 13: 9781405039246
Da: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, Nuova Zelanda
Paperback. Condizione: Good. 444 pages. Cover lightly creased John Barron was once a top d etective in the Los Angeles Police Department's elite 5-2 Squad. A deadly shootout with fellow officers changed his world forever. Taking a new identity, Barron becomes Nicholas Marten. The Presi dent of the USA sends Marten to the West African country of Equat orial Guinea to gain information on alleged collusion between a U S oil company and mercenaries hired to protect its workers. Marte n is caught up in a bloody civil war between rebellious tribesmen and a merciless dictator. He meets a priest who has clandestine photographs that show the mercenaries supplying arms to the rebel s. When the priest is captured by army troops, Marten is determin ed to find the photographs and turn them over to the president be fore they are made public and ignite a global firestorm of protes t and propaganda. But others are close on his heels. Murder, su spense and deceit shadow Marten every inch of the way as his harr owing journey. At stake are thousands of human lives caught in th e struggle for control of an ocean of oil. The cause is a top sec ret agreement called The Hadrian Memorandum.