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A Financial Times Thriller of the Year
Penal Colony No. 74, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia’s Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country’s most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellhole of death and retribution.

And that’s exactly why the Englishman is there.

Six years ago, Raglan was a soldier in the French Foreign Legion engaged in a hard-fought war on the desert border of Mali and Algeria. Amid black ops teams and competing intelligence agencies, his strike squad was compromised and Raglan himself severely injured.

His war was over, but the deadly aftermath of that day has echoed around the world ever since: the assassination of four Moscow CID officers; kidnap and murder on the suburban streets of West London; the fatal compromise of a long-running MI6 operation.

Raglan can’t avoid the shockwaves. This is personal. It is up to him to finish it – and it ends in Russia’s most notorious penal colony.

But how do you break into a high security prison in the middle of nowhere?

More importantly, how do you get out?

Publisher Review

'A tightly plotted, very well told tale of clandestine campaigns, violent revenge and murky dealings at all levels' * SciFi Bulletin. * 'This spy thriller will get your heart racing ... [An] action-packed thriller!' * My Weekly. * 'A pulse-pounding thriller in the mould of the Terry Hayes bestseller, I Am Pilgrim' * Scottish Field * 'Verve, pace, shocks and intrigue, this is spy thriller writing by an author at the zenith of his powers' -- Peter James 'A sweat-inducing tour de force' * The Times * 'The pulse-pounding pace just never lets up' -- Peter May, bestsellling author of Lockdown 'Full of thrills' * Literary Review * 'Fight scenes, car chases, sex romps, lots of foreign locations and dead goons, and even a Bondesque escape by snowmobile ... Vivid and inventive' * Sunday Times * 'The Englishman is electrifying proof that high-tension international thrillers are back - and with an absolute vengeance' -- William Shaw, author of Deadland 'The pace is relentless, the action and fight scenes superbly choreographed and Raglan is nicely complex: an action man with inner depths ... A cracking, finely crafted thriller' * Financial Times *