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Direct Legacy

A Cold War Spy Thriller

#3 in series

by James Stejskal
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At the height of the Troubles, a young American Special Forces soldier must find and stop his vengeful former comrade-in-arms before he carries out a devastating terrorist strike for the IRA. Once friends, they are now pawns on opposite sides of an ugly war.
It is the height of the Troubles and Northern Ireland lies under a shadow... When Neil Fitzpatrick, a rogue Green Beret soldier, is recruited by the Irish Republican Army to help prepare a terrorist attack, Paul Stavros, his former teammate, is sent to stop him and bring him home alive. Fitzpatrick, the American son of an Irish rebel who was forced to flee his birthplace, is a Special Forces demolitions expert. Fitzpatrick knows his trade and has a personal agenda with the IRA. Alarm bells erupt when the US government learns that Fitzpatrick has gone over to the IRA. The American public can't find out that one of its elite soldiers is involved in terrorism and the US government won't rely on the British to find him. They need someone who knows Fitzpatrick and how he operates. Who better than one of his former teammates? Paul Stavros is also a Special Forces veteran. He knows little of the Irish Troubles but is about to learn. What he does know is how to fix problems and Neil has just become his biggest headache. But before Stavros can go operational, he must endure an arduous and hazardous selection process to be accepted by the joint SAS-intelligence cell that will back him up. The British aren't happy with Stavros on their turf; they'd rather do the job themselves—quickly, cleanly, and terminally. Once, Fitzpatrick and Stavros were comrades and friends. Now they are pawns on opposite sides of an ugly war where all is fair and no one is innocent. The British want to kill one, the IRA wants to kill the other. It's a race to see who will be first.

  • Creators

  • Series

    The Snake Eater Chronicles

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 16, 2022

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781636241203

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781636241203
      • File size: 923 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 30, 2022
      Set in the early 1980s, Stejskal’s subpar third entry in his Snake Eater Chronicles (after 2021’s Appointment in Tehran) takes U.S. Army Special Forces Staff Sgt. Paul Stavros to Northern Ireland on an undercover mission to locate a former Green Beret comrade of Irish descent, who’s been recruited by sympathetic U.S. partisans to lend his skills as a demolition expert to the IRA’s guerilla campaign against the occupying British military. Posing as a freelance journalist investigating the impact of the Troubles on ordinary Irish citizens, Stavros spends his time drilling with the U.K. security forces and interviewing locals, hoping to stumble across his quarry. A subplot, focused on Stavros’s girlfriend’s training as an operative, feels disconnected and superfluous, and amid sparse period details, the action builds to a too-neatly-wrapped resolution. Stejskal does a good job maintaining suspense, but is circumspect in his description of the conflict, neither taking sides nor deeply exploring its political history, leaving readers unsure of the motivations of characters who can seem too modern and unconvincing. Series fans will hope for a return to form next time.

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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Languages

  • English

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