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A message from James Swallow…
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Hello!
Thanks for picking up EXILE, my new thriller novel and the follow-up to my previous work NOMAD. It’s been great to see the enthusiasm among readers for Marc Dane’s adventures, and I’m pleased to able to bring him back for a new story. I hope you enjoyed reading thisbook as much as I enjoyed writing it!
My concept for the ‘Rubicon’ series was to write modern, tech-savvy action-adventure thrillers with the feel of the high-octane novels I lovedfrom the 80’s and 90’s, but filtered through the lens of a post-Wikileaks world, with an everyman hero facing off against deadly threats. As a character, Marc Dane grew out of a desire I had to invert a standard trope that we often see in thrillers – the “bloke in the van”, always on the side-lines while other are in the thick of the action. I wanted to explore what would happen if that character got dragged out of his comfort zone and into the middle of the danger, a hero who isn’t an elite black-ops badass, but instead someone who has to rely on wits, adaptability and resourcefulness in order to win through.
Marc’s journey through the first Rubicon novel NOMAD is a quest to clear his name, a search for vengeance on the enemies responsible for the deaths of his team and a race against time to stop a terrorist atrocity. EXILE picks up one year later, with the echoes of those events still sounding and a new threat emerging in the form of the pirate warlord Ramaas and his crusade against the West.
While EXILE concludes with Marc Dane officially becoming a part of Rubicon’s covert Special Conditions Division, in my next novel in the series, he will find himself facing off against a very different kind of enemy on a high-tech digital battlefield.
When betrayal strikes at the heart of the team, Marc uncovers the plot of a deadly cadre of black-hat mercenary hackers – to use an unstoppable virtual weapon against vulnerable civilian targets. Is their plan to spread chaos or to sell their skills to the highest bidder? Or is there a deeper, more personal agenda at work? As attacks unfold across the world – crippling power grids, crashing trains, causing riots and worse –Marc must call on all his skills and ingenuity to track down the mysterious “Madrigal” before the ruthless hacker’s plans plunge the world into war . . .
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Thanks again for your interest in this novel, and I hope you’ll return for my next book and the future adventures of Marc Dane, Lucy Keyes and the Rubicon team.
All the best,
James
Find out where it all began . . .
Sunday Times bestseller
FIND THE TRUTH BEFORE THEY FIND YOU
Marc Dane is an MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step away from the action. But when a brutal attack on his team leaves Marc as the only survivor – and with the shocking knowledge that there are traitors inside MI6 – he’s forced into the front line.
However the evidence seems to point towards Marc as the perpetrator of the attack. Accused of betraying his country, he must race against time to clear his name.
With nowhere to turn to for help and no one left to trust, Marc is forced to rely on the elusive Rubicon group and their operative Lucy Keyes. Ex US Army, Lucy also knows what it’s like to be an outsider, and she’s got the skills that Marc is sorely lacking.
A terrorist attack is coming, one bigger and more deadly than has ever been seen before. With the eyes of the security establishment elsewhere, only Lucy and Marc can stop the attack before it’s too late.
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First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Zaffre Publishing
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