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All Nick Torr wanted was a safe transit home. He'd been in Singapore less than six days, an unscheduled break during a nomadic journey spent in isolation and contemplation, what covert intelligence professionals refer to as dusting off the traces. Returning from settling old scores in Moscow and overseeing a campaign of gruelling operations, Nick is refused permission to proceed. Isolated, forced to endure an extended stopover, Nick is caught at the brutal core of a hostile attempt at damaging and destabilising CO8 and the Secret Intelligence Service. The disappearance, torture and murder of a British expat rumoured to be a Service asset, leads Nick back into the cut-throat world of covert double-dealing where friendship counts for nothing and the only rule is to survive.

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R. J. Dillon has never lost sight of his roots, frequently returning for a heady dose of nostalgia to a small Lancashire cotton town where he was raised by his mother after his father died. He developed a love-hate relationship with education, emerging relatively unscathed with a first class honours degree, masters and Ph.D. He has held a varied assortment of jobs reflecting his commitment and hard work; he has a charming flair for new challenges, and a high disregard for needless authority. He's served in the Royal Navy for a short period, toiled as a labourer, overhauled and installed machinery as a technician, loaded garments into trailers, experienced advertising, worked freelance, taught and taught some more. His first, tentative steps at writing came when he was five - he still has the 'action' story with crayoned illustrations to prove it. Professionally, he's written reports, edited reports, compiled journals, produced copy, poetry, an academic book and most recently he's concentrated on fiction. He doesn't suffer fools or the instant-gratification culture in any form. He mourns the loss of individual and collective responsibility. He turned his back on alcohol several years ago. He doesn't go out of his way looking for trouble, but it has a habit of seeking him out; he's had shoes thrown at him, fair and devious punches, glasses of wine and holy water - not all by the same person. When he's not writing, researching or travelling, Dillon has taken to the hills on and off challenging trails; now he concentrates on coastal walks. He is an accomplished photographer, enjoys reading biographies and non-fiction.

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