The Killer Elite
It began in the quiet smugness of an elegant club in St.James, and ended in a nightmare of brutality and deception.

Mike Locken, a former specialist in security and transport, takes on a job to shepherd an exiled African politician in a risky transit across London, the first step in the triumphant return to his homeland. But out there somewhere waits an elite team of international assassins contracted to take him down -- one of whom not so long ago put three bullets into Locken that should have left him a corpse, but didn't... one bad guy's big mistake.

So Mike Locken -- unofficial now, an expendable gun-for-hire, reenters the war zone driven by his own demons. Ostensibly to foil a political assassination but willing to use the African as bait if it gets him a shot at the man who put him out of business forever, or so it seemed to everyone but Locken. Following a path from stakeout to shootout, from deception at a London airport to betrayal in a remote Welsh village then back to London where it all began -- and a savage finish. "Rostand knows how to let action like this explode all over the place," says Bestsellers. "Sensational... a writer with real flair," The New York Times Book Review. A Delacorte Suspense Novel of the Year. Filmed by Sam Peckinpah/United Artists.
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The Killer Elite
It began in the quiet smugness of an elegant club in St.James, and ended in a nightmare of brutality and deception.

Mike Locken, a former specialist in security and transport, takes on a job to shepherd an exiled African politician in a risky transit across London, the first step in the triumphant return to his homeland. But out there somewhere waits an elite team of international assassins contracted to take him down -- one of whom not so long ago put three bullets into Locken that should have left him a corpse, but didn't... one bad guy's big mistake.

So Mike Locken -- unofficial now, an expendable gun-for-hire, reenters the war zone driven by his own demons. Ostensibly to foil a political assassination but willing to use the African as bait if it gets him a shot at the man who put him out of business forever, or so it seemed to everyone but Locken. Following a path from stakeout to shootout, from deception at a London airport to betrayal in a remote Welsh village then back to London where it all began -- and a savage finish. "Rostand knows how to let action like this explode all over the place," says Bestsellers. "Sensational... a writer with real flair," The New York Times Book Review. A Delacorte Suspense Novel of the Year. Filmed by Sam Peckinpah/United Artists.
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The Killer Elite

The Killer Elite

by Robert Rostand
The Killer Elite

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by Robert Rostand

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Overview

It began in the quiet smugness of an elegant club in St.James, and ended in a nightmare of brutality and deception.

Mike Locken, a former specialist in security and transport, takes on a job to shepherd an exiled African politician in a risky transit across London, the first step in the triumphant return to his homeland. But out there somewhere waits an elite team of international assassins contracted to take him down -- one of whom not so long ago put three bullets into Locken that should have left him a corpse, but didn't... one bad guy's big mistake.

So Mike Locken -- unofficial now, an expendable gun-for-hire, reenters the war zone driven by his own demons. Ostensibly to foil a political assassination but willing to use the African as bait if it gets him a shot at the man who put him out of business forever, or so it seemed to everyone but Locken. Following a path from stakeout to shootout, from deception at a London airport to betrayal in a remote Welsh village then back to London where it all began -- and a savage finish. "Rostand knows how to let action like this explode all over the place," says Bestsellers. "Sensational... a writer with real flair," The New York Times Book Review. A Delacorte Suspense Novel of the Year. Filmed by Sam Peckinpah/United Artists.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940012916631
Publisher: Robert Syd Hopkins
Publication date: 05/26/2011
Series: The Mike Locken Trilogy , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 442 KB

About the Author

Writing here as Robert Rostand, novelist and screenwriter Robert Syd Hopkins is the author of a dozen books, three non-fiction works and nine novels under his own name and the Rostand pseudonym -- Including "The Killer Elite," the first of the Locken trilogy of hard-edged thrillers and the soon-to-be republished "Viper's Game" and "A Killing in Rome." All featuring specialist in security and transport (and magnet for nasty people) Mike Locken. Hopkins has worked for the U.S. government and lived long periods in Brazil, England, Canada, and France. His books have been translated into eleven languages.
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