Irwin R. Blacker – författare

"e;You will search out the enemy and you will destroy him . . ."e; Those were the President's orders to Richard LeGrande. The Chief of State knew LeGrande was the one man who could be trusted to fulfill those instructions - if anyone could.LeGrande was the Spymaster.He was head of "e;GENOPS"e;  (General Operations Agency). Behind this innocuous sobriquet, lay the last ditch organization ready at any moment to take on any job that was too dirty or too difficult for the Military or the CIA. If GENOPs failed, the US fell."e;Full of excitement and violent action, stretching from Washington to Europe, East Africa and North Vietnam."e; Hull Daily Mail, YorkshireWhen a U-2 brings back photographs of five new, huge Chinese military installations - an airfield, a bridge, a dam, a rail road station, and a tank farm - up and running north of Hanoi . . . all built in less than a month, signifying a massive Chinese military build-up.Legrand does the math. Five targets, means he will need five agents . . .LeGrande assembles five of his hand-picked crew of specialists in such arts as arson, throat-slitting and sabotage. The agents have been ordered to parachute behind enemy lines, then search out and destroy the Chinese installations. If they fail, the Air Force will have no option but to bomb them. And risk starting WW3.LeGrande gathers them in Saigon and watches the wheels lift as their plane bears them off on what for some, or all five, could be their final mission.Moments later LeGrande is handed intelligence showing one of his men is a traitor. . . ."e;Authentic as a machine-gun burst, a novel of American guerillas deep behind enemy lines. A superb action thriller."e; Baltimore Sun"e;A race against time, tension of combat, exciting war drama."e; Detroit News

"e;An exciting, deadly realistic spy novel."e; Roanoke PilotYou've read about James Bond, Matt Helm, Jason Bourne, and Gabriel Allon, men sent on ultra-deep-cover missions to singlehandedly counter deadly plots and return home undetected and, ideally, unscathed.What of the spymaster who must minutely scrutinize intelligence, assay it for developing threats, select the trustworthy person best fitted for the assignment, and then send that spy out on a deadly assignment, often into enemy territory itself?Meet Major General Richard LeGrande, the USA's answer to George Smiley. He knows each of his agents personally, their strengths and weakness and hopes and dreams—and he watches over each and every one of them, doing his utmost to ensure they return home safely from each and every mission. He is aware of the thousand things that could go wrong, with fatal results for his operatives.LeGrande is the chief spymaster, head of GENOPS, an ultra-secret government intelligence agency tasked only with the hardest, most dangerous and most critical jobs—the ones with no room for error, where the consequences of failure are so high the mission simply must succeed."e;A novel of the dedication behind the men and women who serve their country by violating their consciences. The Kilroy Gambit is a distinctly different story of international espionage and planning for defense.LeGrande must act fast and think faster if he is to pull America's chestnuts out of the fire before U.S. agents are compromised and killed. Here is taut tale of espionage, and the perils and fears faced daily by the USA's lonely, vigilant spymasters."e;One of GENOPS' most closely-guarded secrets is immanently in danger of being discovered. In Afghanistan. GENOPS has stashed one of its clandestine caches of war material, designed to be easily accessed by the USA in case of armed warfare in the region (Operation Kilroy). The cache lies on the route Russia would have to take if it wanted its soldiers to penetrate directly into India."e;At the same time Sen. Lloyd, desperate for headlines and reelection, gets hold of a turncoat in GENOPS who feeds him highly-colored information about LeGrande, which the Senator uses to convene a congressional hearing that will impress his constituency in the Midwest just before his upcoming reelection. But it will expose both Operation Kilroy and the existence of GENOPS."e;Their face-off in a congressional hearing is the highest dramatic spot of the book. The Kilroy Gambit sums as a good yarn, even a stirring one."e; —The Albany HeraldIrwin R. Blacker was a former operative of the CIA and a Peabody award winning television writer.