by Chris Allen
Morgan retraced his steps through the gardens and found once more the second breach that Hemsworth had blown out of the perimeter wall. In moments they were on the beach and the sound of the waves and the smell of the ocean acted on Jovana like smelling salts, reviving her instantly. She lifted her head from Morgan’s chest. Looking out to sea, she said, “Please let me swim. Just for a few moments.”
Morgan gazed across the beautiful azure waters of the Caribbean Sea as the surf swelled around his ankles and the spray drenched his face. He knew that she was right. It was the only thing they really needed to do.
ALEX MORGAN WILL RETURN
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Human trafficking statistics taken from:
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) – Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2012
UN.GIFT Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking – Human Trafficking: The Facts
Certain facts and statistics taken from publicly available information provided by INTERPOL via http://www.interpol.int/en.
The correct abbreviation for the Hong Kong Police Force is HKPF. However, for ease of reading I have made it HKPD.
Thank you to my beautiful wife Sarah Allen, for whom I write every word.
Thank you to my two amazing little boys, Morgan and Rhett, for keeping me grounded, happy and so blessed to be their dad.
Thank you to my publisher Joel Naoum and his team at Momentum – Tara Goedjen, Patrick Lenton and Michelle Cameron.
Thank you again to Cameron Gumley.
Thank you to Marysia Juszczakiewicz
Thank you to Ruth Chandler from Anti-Slavery Australia: http://www.antislavery.org.au/
Thank you to Major Tony Kaine and Major Dave Rose of the Royal Australian Regiment – once again for their expertise and assistance with Morgan’s parachute sequence.
Thank you to Anna “Colonel” Rodanski for her assistance with the Polish stuff!
Thank you to Greg and Jane Scarlett and Kate Pereira for their support and generosity when I needed a retreat to get some critical chapters down on paper.
Thank you to Mario and Katrine Sarris, along with Ryle, Dani, Viktoria, Sarah, Steph, Nat, Kerri, Sweta, Suzanne and the rest of their incredible team at The Reservoir, Surry Hills, Sydney, for taking such good care of me during my lunchtime writing sessions to finish this book.
Finally, I’d like to acknowledge one of my favorite actors of all time who sadly passed away while I was writing Avenger. Lewis Collins was best known for his portrayal of the hard-hitting CI5 agent Bodie in the British TV series The Professionals and later starred as Captain Peter Skellern in the SAS movie Who Dares Wins. At one time Lewis was considered the natural successor to Roger Moore in the role of James Bond and while his no-nonsense screen test foreshadowed Daniel Craig’s Bond, unfortunately he was considered too hard for 1980s audiences. Lewis Collins’ performances as Bodie and Skellern left a lasting impression on me. He was a major influence on the development of my protagonist and, in my mind’s eye, he will always be the prototype Alex Morgan.
Lewis Collins 27 May 1946–27 November 2013 – RIP
ABOUT CHRIS ALLEN
Chris Allen writes escapist action thrillers for realists, having seen and done it all.
A former paratrooper, Chris served in three Commonwealth armies across two decades and four continents. He left the military due to injuries, retiring at the rank of Major. In addition to his military career, Chris has served with three law enforcement agencies in Australia, led security operations for an international aid agency in East Timor during the emergency in 1999, and was headhunted to take over the protection of Sydney’s most iconic landmark, the Sydney Opera House. In 2008 Chris was appointed Sheriff of New South Wales, one of Australia’s most historic law enforcement appointments. Today, he continues his career as a writer and government senior executive. Chris and his wife, Sarah, live in Sydney. They have two small boys, Morgan and Rhett.
In his Intrepid series, Chris puts the reader deep within the action. His protagonist, Alex Morgan, represents the embodiment of Chris’s own military and law enforcement insider experience. Intrepid is the Intelligence, Recovery, Protection and Infiltration Division of Interpol, a top secret black ops taskforce operating in the shadows to protect the world’s most vulnerable people from the worst among us.
ALSO BY CHRIS ALLEN
Defender: The Alex Morgan Interpol Spy Thriller Series (Intrepid 1)
Hunter: The Alex Morgan Interpol Spy Thriller Series (Intrepid 2)
About Helldiver: The Alex Morgan Interpol Spy Thriller (Intrepid 4)
Has Alex Morgan finally met his match?
A ghost from the past, an omnipotent billionaire, loyalty tested to the limit and all roads lead to RENEGADE. Morgan commits to the toughest mission of his career and his chances of survival are slim at best. Trust has become little more than a commodity to be bought and sold and old friends re-emerge as the very heart of INTREPID faces destruction.
General Davenport sends Alex Morgan deep into the shadows of the post Cold War European underworld to stare fear in the face, unseat an oligarch, and bring a spy in from the cold. But Morgan's connection to the target is closer than he could ever have imagined.
Helldiver brings Interpol’s ultra secret, black ops division Intrepid to it’s knees, and it’s up to Alex Morgan and Elizabeth Reigns to wrest their agency back from the brink.
For more information, please visit momentumbooks.com.au/books/helldiver/.
First published by Momentum in 2015
This edition published in 2015 by Momentum
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Avenger: The Alex Morgan Interpol Spy Thriller Series (Intrepid 3)
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