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2000s: Luke Carlton – ex-Special Boat Service commando has a mission in the Colombian Jungle
Crisis
What you need to know before your trail
Luke Carlton now working for MI6 has his most dangerous mission yet.
He is sent into the steaming Colombian jungle to investigate the murder of a British intelligence officer but finds himself caught up in the coils of a plot that has terrifying international dimensions.
Hunted down, captured, tortured and on the run from one of South America’s most powerful and ruthless drugs cartels, Luke is running for his life.
But it’s not just his life on the line here, for London is being targeted with a weapon that is both diabolical and ingenious.
Travel Guide
Colombia
In twenty first century Colombia, the cocaine cartels and traffickers, the narcotraficantes, had fragmented into numerous smaller cartels or criminal bandas, harder to catch, and just as ruthless. But the Colombian government, with help from the American and the British,had been steadily taking them down, one by one, going after the structures, the family leaders, the organiser,
The most infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar might be long gone but the legacy he left behind is very much still in play.
This is one fast paced adventure and journey into the unknown. Colombia it would seem is a country of contrasts – and most of them are dangerous and edgy, The author should know since he has been the BBC Security Correspondent for many years and has himself been a bit of a Luke Carlton figure having been shot at in Saudi Arabia. The novel is set in the jungles of Colombia where he has been to many times.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Crisis
Author/Guide: Frank Gardner Destination: Colombia Departure Time: 2000s
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