WINNER NEWSPAPER HOUSE LITERARY AWARD 2012 Security arrangements for a visit to Australia by the US Secretary of State are made under the watchful eye of a beautiful Australian diplomat, stationed in Washington.

As the jet carrying the US officials enters Australian air space, intelligence services intercept a coded message, setting alarm bells ringing and prompting a national security operation. All the signs point towards Islamic terrorists.

Tom Grant, a rugged, highly decorated Australian SAS Commander just back from Afghanistan, leads a frantic mission to hunt down the suspects.

As the gap between the fugitives and their hunters closes, a cruel twist emerges, challenging credulity and threatening a highly explosive international incident.

""Nowhere in the Qur'an is there an exhortation to kill. That is just the Mantra of xenophobic westerners wanting to discredit Islam. Indeed, Chapter 17: Verse 70 of the Q'uran makes interesting reading. It states: Respect and honour all human beings irrespective of their religion, colour, race, sex, language, status, property, birth or profession'". "In that instant, Sentinel's eyes assumed a puzzled look then a look of surprise and finally of horror, as he realised he was going to die. The bullet had punched through Sentinel's soft tissue, entering his cranial cavity and exploding out of the side of his face ." A masterful narrative, by a master story-teller. "Riveting realism. Riveting suspense-from a master story-teller"