Hard Cover

by Adrian Magson

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Pub Date 1 Jul 2016 | Archive Date 19 Oct 2016

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The third tense and compelling thriller to feature The Watchman - deep cover specialist Marc Portman

Marc Portman, codename Watchman, is in Russia providing covert back-up to wealthy Russian businessman Leonid Tzorekov. A former KGB officer sympathetic to the West, Tzorekov has close links with Vladimir Putin and is planning to use his influence with the President to improve relations between Russia, the USA and the European Union.

However, there are those with vested interests in maintaining hostilities: powerful men who will go to any lengths to ensure the proposed meeting does not take place. The Watchman’s role is to run security, evaluate risks and, where necessary, provide hard cover by taking more direct action and fighting back. When the assignment takes an unexpected turn, Portman has no choice but to take the hard cover option …

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ISBN	9780727886071
PRICE	US$29.95 (USD)

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Terry H, Reviewer

Hi Karen,

My next review is as follows:-
"Hard Cover:A Marc Portman Thriller",written by Adrian Magson and published in hardcover by Severn House Publishers Ltd; First World Publication ed. edition on 31 Mar. 2016. 256 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0727886071

I have read many books by Adrian Magson and there has not been a bad one yet and he has done it yet again with this latest Marc Portman thriller, the third one in this series.

Marc (codename Watchman) is working , as he usually does as a private contractor for the CIA/MI6 and has been sent into Russia to provide hidden, black ops, back up for a wealthy Russian businessman who has lived in the UK for many years. Leonid Tzorekov was a former KGB officer but is now sympathetic to the West and is thought to be in Russia now with the object of meeting his old friend President Vladamir Putin to persuade him to be more sympathetic and moderate towards the west.

However, there are many who do not want Leonid Tzorekov to meet with Putin and will do anything possible to stop him. This very exciting, tense adventure kept me guessing right up until the final sentence. Portman goes into Russia in disguise and under cover of darkness and puts an electronic beeper under the bumper of the Russians car. He hopes this will aid him in following the target less overtly then without it. However, there are others who are considering the same tactics, but for more aggressive purposes.

This very nerve-racking and exciting thriller rushes on to it's final dramatic conclusion. I have had the privilege of reading for review purposes the author's two earlier Marc Portman stories "Close Quarters"(April 2015) and "Watchman"(Jan 2014), I have also read his "No Kiss For The Devil"in his Riley Gavin series and two of his Lucas Rocco stories set in provincial France during the 1960's "Death On The Marais" and "Death On The Rive Nord".

Adrian Magson is a very experienced author with many books published under his own name and various pen-names. When you open one of his titles you know that the book in question will provide a really interesting and tense plot and thoughtful well described characters. He researches his plots in a thorough and painstaking manner in a similar way to fellow authors such as Stephen Leather and Simon Kernick. The reader can always expect from his books that there will be a real sense of tense, nail biting action and a very dramatic page turning suspense, almost to the last sentence.

I look forward to reading further gripping adventures of Marc Portman and in fact any new books by this very talented and exciting author. Very strongly recommended.

Best wishes,

Terry
(To be published on eurocrime.co.uk in due course)