Message From Hell

The latest Creasy adventure takes our hero to Vietnam and Cambodia, ostensibly on a mission to rescue a US serviceman taken prisoner twenty-six years earlier during the Vietnam war. In reality, however, the mission is a decoy organised by a sadistic Eurasain woman, Connie Crum, who is a high-ranking officer of the Khmer Rouge. She has long harboured a grudge against Creasy who was responsible for the death of her father. A cat and mouse game between the two principles ensues, as each tries to out guess the other, resulting in a climactic shoot-out in a heavily mined and guarded Buddhist temple hidden in the Cambodian jungle. About the Author A. J. Quinnell is the pseudonym of a writer who wishes to remain anonymous. He has written many bestselling novels, including several featuring the charismatic hero, Creasy. Creasy left Vietnam in 1968, sickened by the incompetence, the corruption, the carnage. Now someone is trying to draw him back...It began with two dead men — a young GI Creasy saw die; and a vicious South Vietnamese, whom Creasy himself had shot. Twenty-six years on, the GI's dogtag is delivered to his parents. Is it possible that, after all, one or both men survived? Creasy is determined to find out and heads back to the killing fields.But every step of his journey has been preordained by an enemy more evil and more cunning than any Creasy has faced yet — the beautiful, deadly Connie Crum, known as the Cobra, who knows how to wait and exactly where to strike...