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Overview

“Has an enjoyable, realistic feeling…will appeal to action junkies and armchair diplomats alike.”
— Kirkus

Tom Locke must track a missing Saudi prince deep inside ISIS territory in this second military action thriller from the authors of Shadow War.

Disillusioned after a mission in Ukraine goes tragically wrong, military contractor Tom Locke is on the run from Apollo Outcomes, a private military corporation run by the treacherous Brad Winters. While working undercover with his surviving team members on the frontlines of ISIS-infected Iraq, they are approached by a Saudi middleman who offers good money to find the missing son of a high-ranking government official.

What Locke doesn’t know is that the missing young Prince may have been carrying the result of a secret agreement made with the Pakistanis in the 1960s, and that his father may or may not be trying to topple the Saudi government. As he pushes deeper into ISIS territory, Locke must figure out both the on-the-ground battle lines and the larger Deep State war he has stumbled into yet again.

Who is the mysterious Saudi who hired Locke’s team? Is the prince’s disappearance personal or political? And how many sides are being played against each other in a Middle East torn apart by overlapping and contradictory alliances? To complete the mission and keep his men safe, the battle-hardened Locke must use every skill he has to defeat a fanatical enemy on the ground—while a duplicitous adversary much closer to home waits for his chance to strike. . . .

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ISBN-13:	9780594901631
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	08/07/2018
Series:	Tom Locke Series , #2
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sean McFate is a professor of strategy at the National Defense University and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank. He served as a paratrooper in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and then worked for a major private military corporation, where he ran operations similar to those in this book. He is the author of The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order, and holds a BA from Brown University, a MA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He lives with his wife in Washington, DC.

Bret Witter has co-authored eight New York Times bestsellers, including the #1 bestseller The Monuments Men. He lives with his family in Decatur, Georgia.

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06/05/2017
McFate and Witter’s strong sequel to 2016’s Shadow War finds mercenary Tom Locke operating as a “slum merc” in ISIS territory north of Mosul, Iraq, after being betrayed by Brad Winters, his boss at Apollo Outcomes, a high-end military security company. Since fighting ISIS pays nothing, Locke and the remnants of his team—Boonchu “Boon” Tripnet and ex-SAS commando Wildman—decide to accept a lucrative offer from Prince Abdulaziz, a member of the Saudi royal family, to locate a missing grown son who may be in Mosul. The elder Abdulaziz is plotting to make his family indispensable to the Saudi government in an effort to outmaneuver his rivals for the throne. The ensuing combat scenes are as good as any in the business. The authors are particularly proficient at tossing off one-liners (“Combat is like heroin. Even after it’s worn you out and thrown you away, you need more”). By the end, Locke finds himself in even more trouble than he was at the start. Satisfied readers wouldn’t have it any other way. Agent: Peter McGuigan, Foundry Literary + Media. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

Locke is another strong hero in the growing subgenre of black-ops thrillers, and Deep Black is a maze of treachery and intrigue to the very end.” — Booklist Online
“McFate knows his way around bold, riveting stories, fascinating characters and ground-level combat that are sure to please fans of Brad Thor, Tom Clancy, and Daniel Silva.” — Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Minute Out
“Has an enjoyable, realistic feeling…will appeal to action junkies and armchair diplomats alike.” — Kirkus Reviews

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McFate knows his way around bold, riveting stories, fascinating characters and ground-level combat that are sure to please fans of Brad Thor, Tom Clancy, and Daniel Silva.

Mark Greaney

Locke is another strong hero in the growing subgenre of black-ops thrillers, and Deep Black is a maze of treachery and intrigue to the very end.

Booklist Online

2017-05-15
An elite mercenary unit searches for a radicalized Saudi prince in Islamic State group-controlled Iraq.Making use of his experiences in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne division, work as a private contractor, and scholarship in the field of international relations, McFate returns with his second book about military contractor Tom Locke. Like the author, Locke is a former American soldier with a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics who works as private contractor, or mercenary, in some of the world's most hostile environments. In hiding from a former employer (Shadow War, 2016), Locke and his small team, made up of former members of the Thai and British Special Forces units, must take whatever jobs they can find in the war-torn Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. Although this results in humanitarian missions that enrich Locke's soul, it does little to fatten his wallet. So when a mysterious Saudi messenger offers the team a hefty sum to find a member of the Saudi royal family inside IS-controlled territory, they take the job. The mission becomes increasingly delicate when it appears that the missing prince is part of a larger plot revolving around a faction of the Saudi royal family that's attempting to buy a nuclear weapon from Pakistan. The story's premise could have been plucked from the headlines, and it has an enjoyable, realistic feeling due to the careful details included by an author who knows the realities of foreign combat as it happens on the ground and behind the doors of diplomatic decision-makers. However, the most intriguing parts of the book are moments of contemplation from Locke: "A soldier's ethics were never marked by the wars he fought in, only the way he fought them. But now I could pick and choose my missions. Mercenaries have to own their ethics, unlike soldiers." A political thriller that will appeal to action junkies and armchair diplomats alike.

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