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The Prince of Bagram Prison

Alex Carr

An edge-of-the-seat political thriller set in the murky world of post-911 espionage

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Army Intelligence reservist Kat Caldwell is teaching Arabic at a military college in Virginia when the order comes: retired spy chief Dick Morrow needs to find a CIA informant who has slipped away from his handler in Spain and may be heading to Morocco.

Jamal was a prisoner whom Kat interrogated when she worked at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. Having gained his trust, she is now expected to discover his whereabouts on a treacherous trail that leads from Madrid's red-light district to the slums of Casablanca. But when a British soldier is murdered just as he is about to give testimony on the death of a Bagram detainee, Kat begins to suspect that the real story here is of the cover-up of US-sanctioned torture. And when in desperation Jamal contacts his former CIA handler, he unwittingly rekindles a bitter struggle between the one man who can save him and the one who wants him dead.

 

"A complex and well written narrative that always grips..."

Denis Kilcommons

Huddersfield Daily Examiner

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£6.99
Paperback
304 pages
178 x 111 mm
ISBN-10:
ISBN-13: 9780752884486
Publication: February 2009
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