Alan "Mac" McQueen

Intelligence agent Alan "Mac" McQueen is back-and putting his life on the line to fight the forces who will stop at nothing to destroy the independence movement in East Timor In the action-packed and gripping sequel to Second Strike, super-spy Alan McQueen is pulled out of a deep-cover assignment to find an agent who's missing. It sounds like a straightforward operation but, as he digs deeper, he discovers a faction of Indonesia's army plotting against the East Timorese. From the paranoia of Dili to guerrilla-infested jungles to the machinations of Canberra, Mac finds himself in a world of murder and torture where he must forge alliances with his rivals just to stay alive. Fighting the good fight, Mac discovers a plot to use a deadly ethno-bomb, which kills only native East Timorese-who don't share the ethnicity of most Indonesians. As the clock ticks Mac has a life-defining choice: walk away or double back.

Lured out of retirement, super-spy Alan "Mac" McQueen is on a mission in this fourth adventure to thwart the ambitions of one man to overthrow the Chinese government and reduce Asia to radioactive ashes Australia's super-spy, Alan McQueen, has been lured out of retirement. Any dreams Mac has a of a cozy office job are shattered when he's dispatched to Singapore to oversee a covert mission. When things go disastrously wrong, he not only has to defend his reputation in Australia but also stay out of jail in Vietnam. From the leafy suburbs of Singapore to the mean streets of Saigon, from the political infighting of Canberra to the old killing fields of Northern Cambodia, Mac has to use all his cunning and a few unusual alliances to get to the bottom of a conspiracy that could throw the world into a thermo-nuclear showdown. When nothing is what it seems, and death is only one mistake away, Mac finds himself both hunter and hunted as he pursues a truth that could save millions of lives.