The Englishman Av David Gilman

A <i>Financial Times</i> Thriller of the Year <b>Penal Colony No. 74</b>, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia''s Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country''s most brutal criminals, it is a <b>winter-ravaged hellhole</b> of <b>death</b> and <b>retribution</b>. And that''s exactly why <b>the Englishman</b> is there. Six years ago, Raglan was a soldier in the <b>French Foreign Legion</b> engaged in a hard-fought war on the desert border of Mali and Algeria. Amid black ops teams and competing intelligence agencies, his strike squad was compromised and Raglan himself severely injured. His war was over, but the deadly <b>aftermath</b> of that day has echoed around the world ever since: the <b>assassination</b> of four Moscow CID officers; kidnap and <b>murder</b> on the suburban streets of West London; the <b>fatal</b> compromise of a long-running MI6 operation. Raglan can''t avoid the shockwaves. This is personal. It is up to him to finish it ¿ and