Nothing Personal

Vin Cooper #8

by David Rollins

A story ripped from the headlines. Inspired by true events.

 

Operation Iraqi Freedom's failure to reveal WMDs was no error but a massive cover-up. An Australian SAS report exposed on Wikileaks suggests Saddam's arms were moved to Syria. And a senior Coalition officer looks to have been complicit.

Did the U.S. allow Saddam's weapons to slip away? Could the sarin being used by Syria today in its civil war actually be Saddam's? And what's the anonymous whistleblower's enigmatic agenda?

OSI Special Agents Vin Cooper and Anna Masters dig through layers of deception to uncover the buried truth. And then a cache of sarin emerges for sale on the dark web — and the seller is Coalition officer.

Yet, this is merely the tip of the iceberg. The Kremlin has put out a contract on Cooper, blaming him for the death of President Valery Petrovich, while secretly playing a wider, more deceptive game. Meanwhile, the dark web auction delivers the rogue sarin into the hands of a radical home-grown militia hell-bent on chaos.

In the heart-pounding thriller NOTHING PERSONAL, Cooper and Masters confront Andre Niemiec, ex-chief of the Wager mercenary army, driven by vengeance. Racing against time, the two special agents navigate a perilous landscape to prevent a murderous plan of epic proportions.

404 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 29, 2024

About the author

Hiya, I'm a fiction author and I live in Sydney, Australia. I guess my best-known work is the series featuring Vin Cooper, a special agent in the United States Air Force OSI.

I have published eleven novels, which most recently includes the seventh novel in the Cooper series, the highly controversial KINGDOM COME.

I've recently discovered the joys of Substack. Come and take a look at davidrollins@substack.com where I'm also serializing BLOOD & EMPIRE, the sequel to FIELD OF MARS.

Reviews

[Balthazar Lawson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vin Cooper is about to leave government service and enter the private sector, with a huge pay rise, working for a defence contractor. However, he is called in for one last job, after documents were published via Wikileaks, to verify the veracity of the information within them. It's a job that he can't refuse as his new job will be at risk. So, reluctantly, he sets off on the investigation by going back to the original source, an Australia SAS solider who took the photos of a suspected WMD convey in Iraq in 2003. Vin is on a trip that takes him around the world and puts his life at risk on more than one occasion, but he's not an easy man to kill. His partner, Anne Masters, is also along for the ride, but their relationship is put at risk when Vin falls for a honey trap.

An action adventure story that, unfortunately, falls apart in places. But overall it's entertaining. Just when you think it's finished it takes another turn. It's not as well polished as the previous books in the series, but that could be because it's self published.

[Paul Sabine · Rating 5 out of 5]

worth waiting for, I think

Well, the next Vin Cooper story has landed after the biggest cliffhanger in the last story from years ago. Vin, Anna and a new friend from Mr Rollins other series are chasing WMD, very bad guys and some sneaky / opportunistic “good guys” across Syria, Iraq, Poland, Russia, France, Monaco and the US. Some classic Vin lines and Anna’s presence is very good. Even old mate Bradley Chalmers turns up.
Needs a second read I think, to get the present a “present” and “one month before the present” order right in my brain.

[Michael Bullock · Rating 5 out of 5]

A long wait for this book and it was worth it. The story is absolutely riveting, seems like everything was pulled out of today’s news. It was fast paced and very hard to put down. Vin Cooper is one badass you do not want to mess with. I really liked the surprise of Tom Wilkes crossover, let’s hope they get together again.
Thanks DavidRollins for another great read.
Michael B