No Game for Heroes

by Stephen England

“An American is in trouble, here in the emirate, and odds are good he’ll be dead before morning.”

Doha, Qatar. A shimmering, opulent oasis of civilization between the desert and the sea. A city whose glittering veneer serves to mask the far darker rot beneath. Corruption. Oppression. Human trafficking. Terrorism.

For nearly a decade, Israeli intelligence officer Miki Abecassis has run the Mossad’s network in Qatar, ingratiating himself with the rich and the powerful, manipulating those who count him friend—passing along the whispers of the indiscreet. Not just a player of the spy game, but a master. But the game is changing. . .

With the American war in Afghanistan approaching its end, the US State Department and the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate—which the Unites States does not recognize—arrive in Doha for talks which will decide the fate of that embattled country. But among the followers of jihad are those who view the negotiations as nothing short of betrayal, a stain on their honor which must be blotted out.

And as Abecassis and the Israelis race to grasp the true nature of the plot against the talks, as the bodies begin to fall, one by one, and old secrets enter the light, one thing becomes devastatingly

This is no game for heroes.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication December 30, 2025

About the author

Stephen England is the author of the bestselling Shadow Warriors thrillers, including Amazon's #1 Bestselling Political Thriller, Pandora's Grave, and its long-awaited sequel, Day of Reckoning--a novel hailed as "the perfect spy thriller for our time--chaotic, cynical, with only a few good men keeping the barbarians from the gate."

Drawing upon nearly a decade of research into the nature of Islam, the Middle East, espionage and counterterrorism operations, England's work has drawn praise for breathing new life into the genre with the hard-edged, unsparing realism of his portrayal of the war on terror, the people who wage it, and the moral and psychological costs exacted of those who take the war to the enemy where he lives. "Soldiers without uniforms. Fighting a war without end. Shadow warriors. . ."

The short stories NIGHTSHADE and TALISMAN round out the Shadow Warriors series, and England's work also includes the stand-alone historical adventure novel, Sword of Neamha.