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Dark Secrets Trilogy #2
Archangel
It is 1970 and Jamie Raeburn has put his dark past behind him...or so he thinks. But a secret U.S. document passed to Ultra, a clandestine British Security Organisation, revives his nightmare.
Confronted with his past Jamie joins Ultra and becomes one of the organisation’s top assassins, the Archangels, carrying out a series of assassinations in Northern Ireland as the U.K. Government tries to destabilise both Nationalist and Loyalist factions. He compartmentalises his life, living as two people; Jamie Raeburn, husband and father, and Michael Messenger, State sponsored assassin, until one day he is ordered to kill a man and begins to question what he is being ordered to do. He wants to get out but no Archangel simply "leaves" Ultra. In an explosive conclusion Jamie faces an IRA execution squad, outnumbered and outmanoeuvred...and they knew he was coming. Someone wants him dead, but who...and why?
Confronted with his past Jamie joins Ultra and becomes one of the organisation’s top assassins, the Archangels, carrying out a series of assassinations in Northern Ireland as the U.K. Government tries to destabilise both Nationalist and Loyalist factions. He compartmentalises his life, living as two people; Jamie Raeburn, husband and father, and Michael Messenger, State sponsored assassin, until one day he is ordered to kill a man and begins to question what he is being ordered to do. He wants to get out but no Archangel simply "leaves" Ultra. In an explosive conclusion Jamie faces an IRA execution squad, outnumbered and outmanoeuvred...and they knew he was coming. Someone wants him dead, but who...and why?
455 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 26, 2015
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About the author
Graeme Gibson
4 books3 followersWhat can I say and where do I start? Well, I suppose this is the place where you blow your own trumpet...but I'm a little uncomfortable with that, so let's just stick to facts.
Okay, I'm a "baby boomer", born in 1947, so I'm no spring chicken but I suppose the upside is that I've gained plenty, and I mean plenty, of experience. Various jobs...I started as a trainee metallurgist, became an engineer, production supervisor, stock control manager, and all before going to University to study Law at the tender age of 27. I then spent almost 30 years practising as a lawyer in Scotland before retiring. Add to all of that the fact that I have been a bus driver, beer salesman, book seller, double glazing salesman, taxi driver and wine merchant and you see where the experience comes from.
I see writing as a natural extension to my career as lawyer but I wish I had started writing earlier...it's much more fun!
My first novel, The Janus Complex, was published on Amazon in August 2013 and is the first book of a trilogy - Dark Secrets. The second book, Archangel, is well under way and I am hoping that it will be available on Amazon by January/February 2014. I am also working on another book, Web of Evil, and this too should be completed for publication in early 2014. The plan thereafter is to concentrate on book three of the Dark Secrets Trilogy which will be published under the working title of Redemption.
If you have paid me the compliment of reading this to the end, I thank you. Hopefully, you will like what my writing offers too.
Okay, I'm a "baby boomer", born in 1947, so I'm no spring chicken but I suppose the upside is that I've gained plenty, and I mean plenty, of experience. Various jobs...I started as a trainee metallurgist, became an engineer, production supervisor, stock control manager, and all before going to University to study Law at the tender age of 27. I then spent almost 30 years practising as a lawyer in Scotland before retiring. Add to all of that the fact that I have been a bus driver, beer salesman, book seller, double glazing salesman, taxi driver and wine merchant and you see where the experience comes from.
I see writing as a natural extension to my career as lawyer but I wish I had started writing earlier...it's much more fun!
My first novel, The Janus Complex, was published on Amazon in August 2013 and is the first book of a trilogy - Dark Secrets. The second book, Archangel, is well under way and I am hoping that it will be available on Amazon by January/February 2014. I am also working on another book, Web of Evil, and this too should be completed for publication in early 2014. The plan thereafter is to concentrate on book three of the Dark Secrets Trilogy which will be published under the working title of Redemption.
If you have paid me the compliment of reading this to the end, I thank you. Hopefully, you will like what my writing offers too.
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November 17, 2021
Just finished the second book of this series and moving quickly to the third one. I have really enjoyed these books so far. Recommend from the friend of the author and definitely glad I checked it out.
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