golden serpent novel by Mark Abernethy

Memories of the Bali Bombing have all but faded for Aussie spy Alan McQueen. It is six years since that awful night in Kuta and McQueen is now married, lecturing part-time and living on the Gold Coast with his wife and daughter. But when McQueen is lured back into covert intelligence work for the Australian government as an economic operative in Jakarta, he is forced to confront the unresolved mysteries of the Kuta bombings in ’02.

After his partner is gunned down during the routine Jakarta assignment, he is soon back on the trail of the gang that narrowly eluded him six years’ earlier – the same crew of Pakistani nuclear terrorists who McQueen believes were responsible for the Bali atrocity. Joining with Russian and Indonesian intelligence officers, McQueen leads a chase through the wilds of Sumatra but as he closes on the Pakistanis, it becomes apparent that this time their target is not in South East Asia: the terrorists want to detonate their mini-nuke in Australia.