In a village on the English seacoast, Frank Perry waits for his past
to arrive. He believed that it would never catch up with him, that he
was safe. A decade earlier, he spied on the Iranian chemical and
biological weapons installations -- he had privileged access and his
information crippled their killing capacity. Now, Iran will have its
revenge and has dispatched its most deadly assassin to fulfill the
task. Code-named The Anvil, he will move with stealth towards his
chosen objective -- unless Perry´s protectors can reach him first.
But the first threat to Perry comes from closer to home. Within the
local community many are outraged by the preparations being
undertaken for his safety and, fearing for their lives, they close
ranks against him. As the assassin draws nearer, the ring of steel
protecting Perry grows tighter, and the pressure from those whom he
believed to be his friends grows stronger and more violent. But
against a faceless adversary, and with the job fatally compromised by
stifling political bureaucracy and domestic tension, there seems
little chance that the past will not have its day once more. A Line
in the Sand is a powerful and thrilling novel about how the past can
haunt the present and how profound its consequences can be. It is
about public and private courage and the difficulties of uniting the
two. Once again Gerald Seymour demonstrates that he is one of the
most penetrating and compelling thriller writers of the modern era.
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