


ajor Leo Black was once one of the SAS's most fearsome and effective warriors and after twenty years of war, is now striving to be a force for peace.
A junior tutor without tenure at Oxford University, his lectures on the ethics of conflict are an inspiration to his students but a threat to colleagues wary of admitting him to their gilded circle.
When his oldest friend and comrade is brutally murdered as part of a dark international conspiracy, Black's new-found principles are put to the ultimate test. There's a violent job to be done and he's the man called upon to do it; the unrivalled expert in the art of killing.
Hall probes how a real-life Jack Reacher might cope with years of taking lives for the greater good. Black’s inner conflict gives the firefights and betrayals unusual depth.

A Bond-style thriller for the 21st century. Written with pace and great panache.
An intelligent thriller. Hall’s best.
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A fast-paced global thriller.