The Envoy (Gus Deacon)

An Armenian diamond merchant. A Cypriot shipping magnate. A Russian politician. And a secret linking them all that the world’s most ruthless intelligence agencies will kill to protect.

Since he parted ways with the CIA, Gus Deacon has made his way in Europe as a freelance operative. Every job on its merits: quick, clean, and easy, with a tidy purse. Like the Amsterdam job. Or so it seems, until Deacon receives an unwelcome job offer from an unwelcome visitor: find the shipping magnate, and kill him. Then, when the bullets start flying, Deacon is left with the uneasy feeling that, far from being clean, the Amsterdam job has made him a pawn in an underhand global intelligence game. And, as Deacon knows only too well, pawns are always the first to be sacrificed.

The Envoy sees the return of Gus Deacon, protagonist of C.L. McMahon’s The Heretic, in a fast-paced thriller that ratchets up the tension as it twist and turns towards its thundering conclusion.