Cold Monday

Haunted by the brutal killing of his UN interpreter wife in Bosnia, ex-SAS man Ed Coltrane is consumed with the need to avenge her murder. Drinking too much and spending too much time and money on his search, his life is going into meltdown...When an ex-colleague offers him a chance to make some real money working in 'black ops', Coltrane is interested - until he finds that the job on offer is a commissioned assassination. His disgust, however, is tempered by the knowledge that the target is one of the three men responsible for his wife's death. Against his better judgement, Coltrane accepts the commission. Revenge will be his.This marks the start of a dangerous journey into the dark heart of modern Europe, where Coltrane finds himself in deadly conflict with the new mafias and the security apparatus of an emerging superstate. What Ed Coltrane is about to discover will rock the western world to its foundations.

ISBN: 9780743429924
Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: October 01, 2004

Guardian A man who knows his tradecraft, spy talk, survival skills, muzzle velocities and conspiracy theory as well as anyone in the business.Daily Telegraph Tension ratchets up wickedly -- a strong sense of reality is reinforced with powerful emotion and gritty characters.Sunday Independent Yet again an edge-of-the-chair thriller with the chilling grip of authenticity.