Lethal Sky (Marika Hartmann #3)

Action, Explosions, Adventure, Terrorist Plots And Conspiracies Combine For A Compelling Thriller In The Vein Of Clancy, Maclean And Ludlum. A Light Aircraft Flies Over Sydney Harbour Carrying The Spores Of A Deadly Microbe, Enough To Kill The People Below And Render The City Uninhabitable For Decades. Intelligence Agent Marika Hartmann Races To The Scene Aboard A Taipan Helicopter Packed With Australian Commandos, Unable To Shoot The Plane Down For Fear Of Releasing The Lethal Cargo. Can She Save Her City? In Western Europe And America Millions Of Ordinary People Start Their Day, Unaware That A Swarm Of Powerful New Weapons, Armed With The Same Biological Agent, Gather In The Skies. In London Pj Johnson Leads A Team Of Special Forces Soldiers To Find The Terrorists' Base Of Operations As Biologist Jan Sloven Works Furiously To Decode The Conundrum Left By A Deranged Scientific Genius - But Time Is Against Them All. Action And Adventure, Plots And Conspiracies All Combine For A Breakneck Thriller That Feels Terrifyingly Real. Greg Barron Is A World Traveller Who Has Studied International Terrorism At The Prestigious St Andrew's University. His Critically Acclaimed Thrillers Reflect His Fascination With Political, Social And Environmental Change. Praise For Greg Barron's Novels: 'a Superlative Political Thriller' Rob Minshull, Abc 'a High-octane Thriller ... The Pace Is Excellent, The Writing Is Sharp And Barron Has A Real Talent For The Evocation Of Place ... Sufficiently Gripping To Keep You Up At Night' The Australian 'barron Echoes The Work Of Authors Such As Maclean, Clancy And Ludlum' Canberra Times 'barron Has Written A Thriller That Entertains But Also For Those Wanting More, A Thought-provoking Polemic' Courier-mail 'a Darkly Imaginative Page-turner' Bookseller+ Publisher 'entertaining, Provocative' Daily Telegraph A ship carrying the most deadly cargo in human history is steaming towards the world's great cities ... Intelligence agent Marika Hartmann must make a life and death decision in the skies over Sydney. Her colleague PJ Johnson is leading an unyielding team of Special Forces soldiers against a terrifying new weapon of war, now in the hands of the enemy. Meanwhile only Dr Jan Sloven can decode the biological conundrum left by a deranged scientific genius and now threatening millions of people. Past mistakes will come back to haunt them all in a last ditch fight against an implacable enemy. Action and adventure, terrorist plots and conspiracies all combine for a thrill-ride in the vein of Clancy, MacLean and Ludlum. Praise for Greg Barron's novels: 'A superlative political thriller' Rob Minshull, ABC 'Barron echoes the work of authors such as MacLean, Clancy and Ludlum' CANBERRA TIMES 'Barron has written a thriller that entertains but also for those wanting more, a thought-provoking polemic.' COURIER MAIL 'A darkly imaginative page-turner' Bookseller+ Publisher 'Entertaining, provocative' Daily Telegraph A ship carries a deadly cargo that should never have seen the light of day ... as an enemy is bent on a revenge that will lay waste to major cities across the world. Defending home soil for the first time, intelligence agent Marika Hartmann makes a life and death choice in the skies over Sydney. PJ Johnson has to choose between making a difference, or personal happiness. Microbiologist Dr Jan Sloven is the only man who can tell the world what is inside those stainless steel cylinders. Tom Mossel, head of the DRFS, wants desperately to avoid ending his career in disgrace and ignominy. Old sins come back to haunt them all in a last ditch fight against the dark side of society.