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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Break Line by James Brabazon, read by Jason O''Mara. ''BREATHLESS, COMPLEX AND SERIOUSLY HARDCORE'' LEE CHILDOfficially Max McLean doesn''t exist. Sniper. Spy. Assassin. His job is top secret, deadly... and often Max is the only thing keeping his country safe. Fortunately, he''s bloody good at it.But Max is growing tired of unquestioned loyalty to his political masters. And when his latest job takes him deep into West African jungle, where a remote village has been quarantined after a sinister virus takes hold, it''s time for answers.As the mission darkens further than he ever thought possible, Max faces a perilous, breath-taking quest for the truth, that will call into question everything that he once believed in, and leave the fate of humanity itself in his hands . . .The Break Line drips with authenticity, menace and first-hand knowledge of the frontline. Smart, unputdownable and packed with jaw-dropping plot twists, this is a thriller like no other._______________''Beautifully written and extensively researched, The Break Line is a riveting page-turner, a gruesome delight, and a study of what lies in the shadowed corners of the human heart'' Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X ''A thriller of an unusually classy calibre. Eloquently written, intensively researched ... Brabazon has crafted hugely gripping, thought-provoking yarn'' Financial Times ''War correspondent James Brabazon brings his experience of the world''s most dangerous places to this brutally compelling thriller . . .'' Mail on Sunday''A taut, razor-edged thriller, packed with granular detail and authenticity'' James Swallow, bestselling author of Nomad''It is insanely immersive, brilliantly blurring the lines between fiction and reality. I couldn''t put it down'' Tom Marcus, bestselling author of Soldier Spy

Brought to you by Penguin.The brutally authentic, tense and terrifying thriller from bestselling author and frontline journalist James Brabazon.Officially, Max McLean doesn''t exist.An off-the-books assassin for the British government, he operates alone.But when a routine hit goes badly wrong, a cryptic note on a $100 bill prised from his target''s dead fingers suggests there''s more to the mission than meets the eye. Is someone from Max''s former life trying to send him a message?From Paris to Jerusalem and on to the frozen wastes of north-west Russia, Max is forced into a desperate race for the truth - with unknown enemies determined to stop him at any cost. And when the secret coded into the banknote is finally revealed, only one thing is certain: with the fate of the world in his possession, failure is not an option . . .A razor-sharp action thriller with the raw inventiveness of I Am Pilgrim and the breathless pace of movies like John Wick and James Bond, Arkhangel sees James Brabazon stake his claim alongside Lee Child, David Baldacci and Gregg Hurwitz as a master of the genre.© James Brabazon 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020