The Alex Swan Mysteries: A Cold War Thriller Omnibus by David Holman (#1-3)
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Overview: Cyprus in the Cold War: a hot bed of conflict and crisis. Especially for former MI5 officer Alex Swan who, with his detective colleague Arthur Gable, is drawn into the island’s violent secrets. Over three addictive mysteries, Alex Swan must confront US government conspiracies, hidden Nazi cabals, and revenge-obsessed assassins. These action-packed international mysteries blend classic crime fiction with carefully researched history to provide truly thrilling stories, perfect for any Cold War fiction fans.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. Wings of Death
It’s the mid-1960s, and the Cold War is raging.
In Cumbria, a young aircraft designer has been killed under mysterious circumstances, and his fiancée wants answers.
She travels to London to visit Alex Swan, former intelligence officer with MI5, now running a services investigations department. With him is his colleague Arthur Gable, a recently retired Scotland Yard detective who is not quite ready to hang up his shingle just yet.
When Kate arrives at Swan’s office in London she has a harrowing tale.
James had been excited to work on the Rapier, a cutting edge top secret warplane dubbed by the press as the Silver Angel, being designed by Brinton Aviation.
He talked about it with her father, until one day stopped speaking of it. Kate sensed something was wrong, but was not prepared for the call she received from James, saying to her that he has seen the spectres and now they are after him.
Swan is puzzled, and starts to poke around. He learns that a US Government backed company has taken over part of Brinton Aviation to develop their own reconnaissance drone, the Python Hawk. The program is all hush hush, but why is there an armed guard outside their door? And what are the Spectres that James saw?
It is only after further related incidents that Swan realises that he’s onto something big and before he’s done, will uncover a secret society that dates back to the time of George Washington and the Revolutionary War. On their agenda, is murder, espionage and a plan that could destroy the British aviation industry forever.
2. Countdown to Terror
A cold breaking dawn by the River Thames and a tugboat operator sees a man on the bank being beaten by two other men.
After going to him, the victim’s last words to him before dying are ‘the eagle will fall.’
In the dead man’s pocket is the name of Alex Swan, former MI5 officer, and now with the Ministry of Defence Services Investigations Department.
It’s 1969, and there is a race to the Moon. Simon and Garfunkel are on the radio and in the bookshops are bestsellers by Len Deighton and Graham Greene. World War Two is long over, and Hitler long dead, but not for a group of loyal ex-Nazis known as the Onyx Cross.
Swan and his ex-detective colleague, Arthur Gable, learn that the dead man was a German-born scientist working on the Black Arrow satellite launch vehicle program at Highdown on the Isle of Wight.
Although they have no idea as to what his dying words could mean. The nature of the case has also resurfaced a dark secret that Swan has kept hidden away since the end of the war.
At Highdown following a test firing, the Deputy Chief Engineer Kevin Powell is found dead, boiled inside his protective suit under the rocket and Swan suspects that their deaths could be connected.
Meanwhile, Gunther Fleischer, a former Nazi known as Merlin, has had his Onyx Cross operatives sabotaging space programs from the inside. As the war in Europe came to an end, Operation Falling Star was implemented by the German High Command. Scientists were to be killed, rather than have their knowledge fall into the hands of the US and her allies.
3. Island of Fear
It’s the summer of 1974, and the beautiful island of Cyprus is under threat of an invasion.
But for some, this tragedy offers an opportunity to settle some very personal scores, and gain some very specific political advantages…
In London, former MI5 officer Alex Swan and his colleague, ex-policeman Arthur Gable, are investigating the murder of an RAF officer. When a connection is made between the London murder and a terrorist group that is active on the island, Swan and Gable find themselves inexorably drawn into the conflict in the Med.
Elsewhere, other interested parties are wading into the situation, all keen to make their mark and take their share of the spoils. Add to this, an Irish-American former submariner desperate to avenge the death of his brother at British hands, a nomadic mercenary unit led by an ex-SAS sergeant and a highly sensitive document hidden aboard an old warplane, then the scene is set for an edge-of-your-seat thriller that crosses continents, experiences and perspectives.
Will Swan and Gable be able to prevent the conflict on Cyprus erupting into all-out war, threatening NATO’s southern flank?
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