Gerald Seymour

Follows the parallel stories of an armed protection officer in London and a would-be suicide bomber, who begin to question their identities as they incrementally view themselves fom one another's perspectives.

Wrongfully accused of fleeing his platoon during an insurgent attack in Iraq, intelligence officer Malachy is dishonorably discharged and sinks into despair at a drug-riddled London estate before joining anti-drug efforts specifically targeting a dangerous heroin kingpin.

"In a Croatian village near the Serbian border, no one who survived will ever forget the night they waited for the weapons they needed to make a last-ditch fight against the advancing Serbs. The promised delivery never came, and the village was overrun. Eighteen years later, a body is unearthed from a field, and with it the identity of the arms dealer who betrayed them. Now the villagers can plot their revenge. For Harvey Gillott, now living in leafy...