The Protector [Paperback]

Duncan Falconer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 5, 2007

Three men—an Iraqi, a former coalition soldier, and a journalist—drive together from Baghdad towards Fallujah as the U. S. Marines encircle the city to take it apart. The men are supposedly on a single mission to seek a recent kidnap victim, but in truth all three have very different aims in the besieged town, and each keep a dark secret from the others. Greed, ambition, and guilt are what separates their individual motivations, but a single miscalculation could bring an end to them all. Delicately intertwined in this tense thriller is a dangerous and forbidden love story, converging at the climax with a nail-bitingly deadly twist.

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From Publishers Weekly

Despite an impressive biography that includes stints with Britain's Special Boat Service and private security, Falconer (The Hostage) delivers a stand-alone thriller that conveys little of his expertise. When Bernard Mallory, a royal marine corporal, is separated from his unit during a search-and-rescue operation in the second Iraq War, he stumbles on a cache of millions of dollars, which he buries until he can return and safely retrieve it. After leaving the service, Mallory accepts work as a private security guard in the Green Zone, where his scheme to profit is complicated by his growing attraction to a beautiful local, Tasneen Rahman, whose brother, Abdul, witnessed the abduction of Jeffrey Lamont, an employee of a communications company who turns out to be a Milwaukee beer magnate's black sheep son. Coincidently, Mallory's latest client is an American journalist assigned to cover the Lamont story. Readers hoping for a sophisticated view of the dangers of 2004 Iraq will be disappointed. (Apr.)
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'A gripping and authentic view of life and death in the dangerous world of private protection by someone who has been there and worn the T-shirt' SOLDIER MAGAZINE

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group; Airside ed edition (March 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847440118
• ISBN-13: 978-1847440112
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,495,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Second fiction novel., February 20, 2010

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This review is from: The Protector (Paperback)

This is Falconer's second fiction novel. I was a little disappointed with it after reading his memoir.