A secret plot with dangerous repercussions…
Ruthless CIA agent Jack Downey is on a mission: assassinate Libyan dictator Col. Qaddafi.
But this is a mission that only Downey knows about.
For Downey has told CIA Chief-of-station, Richard Foster, that his team of renegades will help protect a defecting Libyan colonel. Suspicious of the rogue agent’s true motives, however, Foster secretly puts Downey under surveillance.
Meanwhile, American businessman Charlie McPhee has spent the last few years in Egypt, following an acrimonious divorce.
Earning a meagre existence as a nightclub ventriloquist, his past as a lock expert brings him to the attention of the Libyan secret police. When he is kidnapped and forced to open a safe belonging to revolutionaries, Charlie manages to escape – but kills the Libyans in the process.
The incident leads to an interrogation by the CIA and Charlie is forced to help with Downey’s mission – or do time in prison.
Comprising the remainder of Downey’s unorthodox hit squad are London antiques dealer Jennifer Forsyth, whose father was killed on Qaddafi’s orders, and hitmen Hubie Sweets and Mungo Martin.
With this ragtag group of agents, what will be the endgame of Downey’s dangerous scheme?
Sandstorm is a fast-paced international thriller by award-winning author Laurence Gough.
“A fast-paced and blood-thirsty political thriller.” - The Globe and Mail
“This is high-adrenalin stuff from beginning to end.’ - The London Free Press
“Gough delivers the stomach-turning goods with conviction and dark humour." - The Sunday Times (UK)
“A state-of-the-art thriller…Sandstorm is one fine whirling dervish of an entertainment.” - Books In Canada
“So robust it reads like a movie script…the scenes leap from the pages in technicolor…Sandstorm is as entrancing as it is disquieting.” - The Gazette (Montreal)
Laurence Gough lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver. He is the author of the Willows and Parker mysteries. His previous works include The Goldfish Bowl , which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel from the Crime Writers of Canada, and Hot Shots , winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year.
Ruthless CIA agent Jack Downey is on a mission: assassinate Libyan dictator Col. Qaddafi.
But this is a mission that only Downey knows about.
For Downey has told CIA Chief-of-station, Richard Foster, that his team of renegades will help protect a defecting Libyan colonel. Suspicious of the rogue agent’s true motives, however, Foster secretly puts Downey under surveillance.
Meanwhile, American businessman Charlie McPhee has spent the last few years in Egypt, following an acrimonious divorce.
Earning a meagre existence as a nightclub ventriloquist, his past as a lock expert brings him to the attention of the Libyan secret police. When he is kidnapped and forced to open a safe belonging to revolutionaries, Charlie manages to escape – but kills the Libyans in the process.
The incident leads to an interrogation by the CIA and Charlie is forced to help with Downey’s mission – or do time in prison.
Comprising the remainder of Downey’s unorthodox hit squad are London antiques dealer Jennifer Forsyth, whose father was killed on Qaddafi’s orders, and hitmen Hubie Sweets and Mungo Martin.
With this ragtag group of agents, what will be the endgame of Downey’s dangerous scheme?
Sandstorm is a fast-paced international thriller by award-winning author Laurence Gough.
Praise for Sandstorm
“A fast-paced and blood-thirsty political thriller.” - The Globe and Mail
“This is high-adrenalin stuff from beginning to end.’ - The London Free Press
“Gough delivers the stomach-turning goods with conviction and dark humour." - The Sunday Times (UK)
“A state-of-the-art thriller…Sandstorm is one fine whirling dervish of an entertainment.” - Books In Canada
“So robust it reads like a movie script…the scenes leap from the pages in technicolor…Sandstorm is as entrancing as it is disquieting.” - The Gazette (Montreal)
Laurence Gough lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver. He is the author of the Willows and Parker mysteries. His previous works include The Goldfish Bowl , which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel from the Crime Writers of Canada, and Hot Shots , winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year.
