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Collateral Damage
'Very well written ... gripping ...' New York Times Hans Koller is a young German obsessed by his father’s Nazi past.
He is also a leading member of an extreme left-wing Palestinian terrorist group known as the Front.
His mission? To place a bomb in a crowded Chelsea street.
But when the operation goes disastrously wrong, Koller suspects the Front has been infiltrated.
But by whom?
And for what deadly purpose?
In a world where no one can be trusted, Koller's reputation as a ruthless killer has been compromised.
And he is determined to get it back.
Stephen Dove is a Midlands schoolteacher.
His beautiful but promiscuous wife, Emma, is an accidental victim of Koller’s Chelsea atrocity.
After losing the woman he loves, Dove is desperate for vengeance.
He begins as dogged, obsessive pursuit of the man he holds responsible for robbing him of his wife.
An innocent caught up in a dangerous world, Dove tracks Koller across the Middle East, becoming entangled in the brutal world of international terrorism.
Both men are seeking answers.
But will they get them when they finally catch up with each other in a deadly spine-chilling shoot out?
Or will they both end up as 'Collateral Damage'?
'Collateral Damage' is a pulse-quickening thriller of politics, terrorism, love and revenge. It is perfect of fans of John Le Carre, Robert Harris and Frederick Forsyth.
'Very well written, gripping…' New York Times.
'A stunning debut... This finely observed book by a journalist who knows the Middle East well is bitter, compelling, and, one suspects, too true.' Library Journal
'A suspenseful, carefully written and memorable novel.' - Playboy
“For the unremitting chill of its violence, few novels match thsi...a top-rank thriller ...reflecting I suppose the insane chaos of a sick, sick world.” Los Angeles Times
'A convincing novel...one that is both informative and frightening. Highly recommended.' The Muncie Evening Press, Indiana
'Smith knows the twisted ropes.' - The Observer.
'Excellent and authentic... intricate background material and well-observed characterisation.' - The Birmingham Post.
He is also a leading member of an extreme left-wing Palestinian terrorist group known as the Front.
His mission? To place a bomb in a crowded Chelsea street.
But when the operation goes disastrously wrong, Koller suspects the Front has been infiltrated.
But by whom?
And for what deadly purpose?
In a world where no one can be trusted, Koller's reputation as a ruthless killer has been compromised.
And he is determined to get it back.
Stephen Dove is a Midlands schoolteacher.
His beautiful but promiscuous wife, Emma, is an accidental victim of Koller’s Chelsea atrocity.
After losing the woman he loves, Dove is desperate for vengeance.
He begins as dogged, obsessive pursuit of the man he holds responsible for robbing him of his wife.
An innocent caught up in a dangerous world, Dove tracks Koller across the Middle East, becoming entangled in the brutal world of international terrorism.
Both men are seeking answers.
But will they get them when they finally catch up with each other in a deadly spine-chilling shoot out?
Or will they both end up as 'Collateral Damage'?
'Collateral Damage' is a pulse-quickening thriller of politics, terrorism, love and revenge. It is perfect of fans of John Le Carre, Robert Harris and Frederick Forsyth.
'Very well written, gripping…' New York Times.
'A stunning debut... This finely observed book by a journalist who knows the Middle East well is bitter, compelling, and, one suspects, too true.' Library Journal
'A suspenseful, carefully written and memorable novel.' - Playboy
“For the unremitting chill of its violence, few novels match thsi...a top-rank thriller ...reflecting I suppose the insane chaos of a sick, sick world.” Los Angeles Times
'A convincing novel...one that is both informative and frightening. Highly recommended.' The Muncie Evening Press, Indiana
'Smith knows the twisted ropes.' - The Observer.
'Excellent and authentic... intricate background material and well-observed characterisation.' - The Birmingham Post.
220 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 14, 2013
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About the author
Colin Smith
16 books5 followersColin Smith, author of ’England’s Last War Against France', ‘Singapore Burning’ and most recently collaborator in Andrew Borowiec's Warsaw Boy,was brought up in the British Midlands.
At 18 he had the chance to join the Guernsey Evening Press as a cub reporter.
Jobs on several other provincial newspapers followed and in 1968, after working on the Birmingham Post and the Daily Sketch, he joined David Astor’s Observer.
Smith lives with his wife Sylvia in Nicosia where, in the late 1970’s, he was first based as The Observer’s Middle East correspondent. In more recent years he has concentrated on writing books, both fiction and non-fiction but mostly the same school of narrative history.
Smith's first book was Carlos - Portrait of a Terrorist, which came out of a three part Observer series following the Venezuelan’s 1976 raid on OPEC’s Vienna headquarters and the kidnapping of the oil ministers. Revised after Carlos’ capture in 1995 and published as a Mandarin Paperback, in 2012, after a Paris court sentenced the terrorist to a second term life imprisonment for bombings in France in the 1980's, it was revised yet again.
He has pubished three novels, all with Palestinian themes. Spies of Jerusalem is set in the Ottoman Palestine of 1917 as outnumbred Turkish and German forces do their best to thwart Britain's General Allenby as his army advances on Jerusalem; Let Us Do Evil takes place in Mandate Palestine during World War Two where some Jews see the British as their main enemy and make a pact with the Devil; his thriller Collateral Damage sees a vengeful widower on the trail of the man who killed his wife as the Cold War terrorism that plagued Western European capitals in the 1970's becomes a very hot war indeed in Beirut and southern Lebanon.
At 18 he had the chance to join the Guernsey Evening Press as a cub reporter.
Jobs on several other provincial newspapers followed and in 1968, after working on the Birmingham Post and the Daily Sketch, he joined David Astor’s Observer.
Smith lives with his wife Sylvia in Nicosia where, in the late 1970’s, he was first based as The Observer’s Middle East correspondent. In more recent years he has concentrated on writing books, both fiction and non-fiction but mostly the same school of narrative history.
Smith's first book was Carlos - Portrait of a Terrorist, which came out of a three part Observer series following the Venezuelan’s 1976 raid on OPEC’s Vienna headquarters and the kidnapping of the oil ministers. Revised after Carlos’ capture in 1995 and published as a Mandarin Paperback, in 2012, after a Paris court sentenced the terrorist to a second term life imprisonment for bombings in France in the 1980's, it was revised yet again.
He has pubished three novels, all with Palestinian themes. Spies of Jerusalem is set in the Ottoman Palestine of 1917 as outnumbred Turkish and German forces do their best to thwart Britain's General Allenby as his army advances on Jerusalem; Let Us Do Evil takes place in Mandate Palestine during World War Two where some Jews see the British as their main enemy and make a pact with the Devil; his thriller Collateral Damage sees a vengeful widower on the trail of the man who killed his wife as the Cold War terrorism that plagued Western European capitals in the 1970's becomes a very hot war indeed in Beirut and southern Lebanon.
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June 27, 2020
Intriguing
Appropriately titled - good plot with twists- I was somewhat
disappointed in the ending but a really good read nonetheless
Appropriately titled - good plot with twists- I was somewhat
disappointed in the ending but a really good read nonetheless
May 24, 2013
Intelligent and intriguing Cold War thriller starting with a terrorist bombing in London which goes wrong and ending in a deadly manhunt.
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