📮 9 Books by Peter Driscoll (.ePUB)

Peter Driscoll was a bestselling Irish author of international thrillers in the 1970s who first worked in South Africa then, in his later life, became Chief Radio News subeditor with Raidió Teilifís Éireann. He died of a heart attack.

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The White Lie Assignment

The White Lie Assignment - News photographer Michael Mannis had done ‘a little business’ with MI5 before – but those were straightforward, small-time jobs with little danger and no consequences. When Mannis is offered an unusually large fee to slip into communist Albania and take covert photographs of a structure that may not even exist, he suspects he might be getting into something far more serious. According to Mannis’s contact at MI5, the assignment involves telling ‘only a few’ white lies about his background. But when Mannis learns the true and desperate importance of what he must do, his suspicions are confirmed.

In Connection With Kilshaw

In Connection With Kilshaw - As the distrust, betrayal and terror that pervade 1970s Northern Ireland threaten to boil over into a full-scale civil war, British Intelligence make a last, desperate play for peace. Harry Finn, an Englishman in Belfast secretly working for the British government, is sent to destroy a Protestant extremist leader, James Kilshaw. But the ancient hatreds which inflame Catholics and Protestants soon engulf Finn. He is a man in the middle – useful to all sides but also expendable. Gradually Finn becomes aware that he is acting out a part in a drama where morality has no role, truth has little meaning, and human life counts for nothing. And as the threat of war draws closer with each passing hour, Harry Finn realises that it is he, the outsider, who must stage the drama’s ending if he is to stay alive.

The Wilby Conspiracy

The Wilby Conspiracy - Mining engineer Jim Keogh is enjoying a relaxing break in Cape Town when he witnesses a sadistic policemen’s violent attempt to arrest a black man. Appalled by the policeman’s brutality, Keogh steps in and helps the man escape. But unknown to Keogh, the man he has helped is Shack Twala, a high-profile black rights activist recently escaped from Robben Island. With the policeman badly injured, Keogh and Twala are now both wanted men, and the regime’s most lethal operatives are sent after them. As the fugitives race 900 miles to cross the border to safety, they are drawn into a conspiracy much bigger and deadlier than they realize…

The Barboza Credentials

The Barboza Credentials - Mozambique, 1975 In the bitter and murderous aftermath of a brutal civil war, ex-policeman Joe Hickey is winding up his business and preparing to leave the country. But when his office manager tries to cross the border with a fortune in American dollars and kills himself in the attempt, Hickey’s complicated past catches up with him. He finds himself being blackmailed by revengeful and desperate men who offer him safe passage out of Mozambique on condition he tracks down a mercenary killer hiding somewhere in Africa’s dark heart. But it soon becomes clear that Hickey is just the decoy in a deadly stalking game and with time running out, he realises his life matters to no one – except himself.

Pangolin

Pangolin - WHEN A MAN HAS NOTHING TO LOSE, HE IS CAPABLE OF ANYTHING . . . Alan Pritchard has just turned forty and his life is a miserable failure. He is haunted by memories of the war in Vietnam, his wife left him, his son is dead, his lover married another man and his career has come to a humiliating end. THE PROJECT: A brilliantly audacious kidnapping. Then, late one night while Pritchard is drowning his sorrows, he has an idea that could change everything. THE TARGET: The CIA’s top operative in South East Asia. Codename Pangolin. At first it is just an idle fantasy, the wanderings of a troubled and desperate mind. THE RANSOM: $10 million. But in the cold light of day, Pritchard thinks he sees a way his wild scheme could actually work... Can Alan Pritchard turn an impossible dream into the perfect crime?

Heritage

Heritage - Algeria, 1945 In the aftermath of World War II, soldier Robert Lombard returns to his wealthy family’s Algerian wine plantation hoping to build a peaceful and prosperous future for his country. Mohamed, his Arab friend and comrade-in-arms against the Nazis, arrives home at the same time – but experiences the dark side of French rule in a way Robert can never understand. As powerful colonial tensions bring Algeria to boiling point, the two men find themselves deeply entangled in the violence of a new war. With fanaticism, savagery and deception on all sides, good people must be prepared to risk everything to forge a stable future for Algeria.

Secrets of State

Secrets of State - Eugene Vale – American war hero and multi-millionaire businessman – has lived with two terrifying secrets for over forty years. When news breaks of Vale’s appointment to the position of US Secretary of State, his past threatens to ruin him. In order to protect Vale – soon to be one of the most powerful men in the world – mysterious forces orchestrate a series of brutal murders, permanently silencing anyone with information that could compromise him. But when Adam Polk connects the sudden death of his wife’s father with a mysterious WWII diary and begins to investigate, a huge conspiracy threatens to fall apart. Because Adam and his wife Lukia will risk everything to get to the truth – even if they put themselves in the gravest danger…

Spearhead

Spearhead - After languishing for twenty-five years in a top-security South African prison cell, Lincoln Kumalo, the most revered of all Black Nationalist leaders, has fallen seriously ill. The Apartheid authorities refuse to release him, but they also can’t face the dire consequences of him dying in custody. And so they hatch a cunning plot to eliminate him completely. When Kumalo’s comrades hear of the lethal conspiracy, they come up with their own plan to save their leader by breaking him out. The man brought in to do the job is former para Patrick Marriner, who quickly assembles a team of hardened veterans. Their quest begins successfully, but soon explodes into violence and racial and political turmoil as SPEARHEAD moves inexorably to a shattering climax.

Spoils of War

Spoils of War - Jack Rushton was a successful business consultant in Kuwait until Saddam Hussein’s invasion sent him fleeing back to England with his family – and without his money. After the Allies’ victory, Rushton, now desperately short of funds, returns to Kuwait to collect as much of his meagre savings as he can get his hands on. There, Rushton meets Hamadi, the wealthy head of a distinguished family, who makes him a big-money offer. Hamadi made a deal with an Iraqi colonel – Jalloul – for his daughter’s safety, but Jalloul disappeared, taking papers which could ruin Hamadi, and leaving his precious daughter to be tortured and killed. Hamadi wants Rushton to find Jalloul and get those papers back, and Rushton reluctantly agrees. Soon he is plunged into a nightmare world of violence and double-dealing, caught between a gold-smuggling murderer and the government of a war-crippled country desperate for revenge.

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