Hidden Scorpion - Softcover

Reed, Warren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0648565793 ISBN 13: 9780648565796

Publisher: For Pity Sake Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Fresh back from a stint in Asia, Australian Secret Intelligence Service officer, Ben Johnson, is posted to Egypt to establish a spy operation. He quickly acclimatises to the sights, smells and dangers of Cairo, cultivating a local asset who almost immediately provides explosive intelligence with far-reaching ramifications for the entire Middle East.

Other foreign intelligence services want part of the action, some friendly and others, not so much.  As the jockeying for position reaches fever pitch, Ben and his Embassy colleague Meg, become aware that the greatest threat to their operational cover, and their lives, comes from inside the system.

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About the Author

Warren Reed is a former Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) agent with a continuing keen interest in geopolitics of globalisation, especially the burgeoning role of China and its increasingly close relationship with Russia. A regular media commentator on espionage and terrorism, Reed is often sought out to comment on the human side of spying. Born in Tasmania, Reed undertook two years National Service in the Australian Army before completing a degree in Political Science and Business Administration from the University of Tasmania. In 1973, he was admitted to the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo as an Australia-Japan Business Cooperation Committee Scholar. On his return to Australia, Reed consulted for a major Japanese trading house before being recruited by ASIS and trained by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in London. His ten-year career in clandestine work focused on Asia and the Middle East, and he has lived and worked in Tokyo, Cairo and New Delhi. Reed left ASIS in 1987 and subsequently held the position of Chief Operating Officer for CEDA. Fluent in written and spoken Japanese, Warren Reed's other language studies include Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesian and Arabic.

Edition details

• Publisher: For Pity Sake Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0648565793
• ISBN 13: 9780648565796
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 408