'COLIN FORBES HAS NO EQUAL AT THIS SORT OF THING' SUNDAY MIRROR

When a brilliant and ruthless master planner from the Soviet Union's elite forces vanishes, Tweed of the SIS is summoned to an urgent and secret meeting with the Russians.

To his shock, Tweed he is told the missing genius has turned maverick and Moscow does not know what he is planning - terrorism, extortion, or both?

At first Tweed is sceptical - why should he help his great enemy?

But gradually he begins to collect clues, which he reads as signs that some dark plan is being put into motion.

The trouble is, whenever he finds a witness, it is too late - the witness has been murdered.

And then Tweed discovers that a cargo of top secret high-power bombs and sea-mines has been smuggled out of Russia.

Where has this huge armoury been hidden? And what is the ultimate target?

Tweed faces the most difficult and dangerous task of his career as he and his allies must outwit a ruthless killer and prevent a catastrophe.

Deadlock, the fifth book in the Tweed & Co. series, is an utterly gripping book, to be read and enjoyed equally as an adventure story, mystery novel or a spellbinding suspense thriller.

PRAISE FOR COLIN FORBES:

'Utterly realistic and gripping action' Spectator

'A projectile of a thriller' New York Times

'Better than Alistair Maclean's suspense novels' Pasadena Star-News

'Suspense mounts swiftly, plenty of action and intrigue' American Publishers Weekly

'Out-Alistairs Maclean' New York Times

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COLIN FORBES (1923-2006) was the principal pseudonym of British thriller writer Raymond Harold Sawkins. Sawkins wrote over 40 books, mostly as Colin Forbes. He was most famous for his long-running series of thrillers in which the principal character is Tweed, Deputy Director of the Secret Intelligence Service. Forbes started out working as a sub-editor for a publishing company before serving with the British Army in North Africa and the Middle East during the Second World War. When he went back to civilian life, he worked for a publishing and print company, eventually becoming a novelist on a full-time basis. Forbes made his debut as a published author in 1966 using his real name of Raymond Sawkins for the novel Snow on High Ground. His debut under his preferred pen name (Colin Forbes) came in 1969 with Tramp in Armour.

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