Condition Black - 1991

Summary
It is the last months before Iraq is to invade Kuwait, and Saddam Hussein has instructed his scientists to stop at nothing to arm his nation with nuclear warheads. As Frederick Blisset, a disaffected British weapons scientist, is on the point of seizing the Iraqi bait, the only man to stand in the way of a total collapse of the Middle Eastern military balance is a young FBI operative, Bill Erlich - a man who has just seen a close friend gunned down by a terrorist, though, and is hard on the heels of his assassin.
As he blunders into the lines by which the Iraqi puppet-masters control their undercover agents in England, he is faced with a last and inevitable confrontation and recognises that he has gone beyond the point of recall: he is engaged in what his FBI training has taught him to call "Condition Black", lethal assault in progress.

Extract
Colt could easily have killed him. Colt thought that "elite" was the most overworked word in the military dictionary. He reckoned that the word elite was usually applied to those who had the best publicity machine.

Reviews
"Combines the landscape of Geoffrey Household with the dispassionate sniper's eye of Eric Ambler" THE TIMES

"Gives the many-sided suspense story such a wealth of factual detail, it is in the same class as Frederick Forsyth's best" DAILY MAIL

"He has his ear to the ground...Gripping, informative and well-paced" INDEPENDENT

"I would class his book with the first-rate achievements of Graham Greene, Charles McCarry and Le Carre" CHICAGO TRIBUNE