golden serpent novel by Mark AbernethyMemories 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.
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Second Strike by Mark AbernethyWhen Australian spy Alan McQueen is called in to find a young Intel staffer who’s missing in Indonesia, he thinks it’s one last routine assignment before he quits the spy world and goes civvie. But the trail turns deadly and the man they call Mac finds himself unraveling a mystery that leads him to the revelation that Abu Sabaya – the terrorist he supposedly killed in ’02 – is alive and planning a huge strike, along with a rogue CIA agent. The trail twists through betrayals and moles, mercenaries and Indonesian politics to the climax in Singapore where Sabaya has a container-load of VX nerve agent sitting on a ship in the Port of Singapore. The resulting revelations about the governmental involvement in the attack are as hair-raising as Mac’s attempts to stop it. |
