The Judas Gate

reachery has a price, in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller from theSunday Times-bestselling author. Helmand Province, Afghanistan: a loneconvoy edges its way towards a deserted mountain village, led by US ArmyRangers in Mastiff APVs. Stopping to search the area, the Rangers are hitby a massive roadside bomb, and as half the patrol lie dead or injured, therest are ambushed with military precision. A nearby British medical teamresponds to the call for back-up, but all are slaughtered when theirChinook helicopter is blown up. The ambush is bad, but what's worse isthat, amidst the battlefield chatter picked up by Major Giles Roper, notall the Taliban voices are Afghan -- some are English, and the commanderbears an Irish accent; he even names himself 'Shamrock'. Why would hecommit such an atrocity, but more importantly can he be found before hemasterminds another? Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitordown, with all the resources of the 'Prime Minister's private army' at hisdisposal. The fast and furious plot sweeps the reader from Pakistan toAlgeria to London to Paris to Ireland, with many deaths along the way. Thestakes are already high for Dillon and company then a familiar, deadly facemakes a dramatic reappearance. This time, Dillon will not only be going towar -- the war will be coming to him, and he will learn that this Judas hasal-Qaeda on his side!