Available for JUST 99 CENTS is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
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He said he was a retired Special Forces Green Beret, a CIA runner, so I knew the information he had was potentially explosive. But even so, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated, and that the hit would be made to look like an “accident”. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until a week later, when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash, an “accident”…
That’s when the nightmare kicked in.
Was this the “accident” the American had told me about? my incredulous mind was suddenly forced to consider. Had Diana just been assassinated in a car crash? Who else knew what the American knew? Was he working alone? Or on ‘Company’ orders? Who else knew that he’d divulged this information to me?
My mind was a bad place to be.
Fearing for my own and my family’s safety, I turned to the one person I figured might be able to help. I’d known Rob Lacey for close on 20 years. He was a longstanding friend. He was also a frontline MI5 officer, and I knew that if anyone could offer insights, Lacey could. Trouble was, the insights he offered were not what I wanted to hear. “You’re on file as a tap,” he told me, meaning I was being surveilled. “Whatever your American friend said, you can rest assured our people heard it, too.”
In a hammer-blow twist Lacey also assured me that an MI6 plot to ‘take care of Diana’ had been hatched months ago, and that the plot had won support from the CIA due to the furious success of her landmines campaign. The man behind the plot, he said, was the head of MI6 Special Operations Europe, Richard Mason, someone Lacey had crossed swords with in the past: someone I would cross swords with soon enough.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being used as a pawn, that I’d been set up as a ‘cut-out’ in one of the most deadly conspiracies of modern times. All I knew was I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, the most obsessive, terrifying and increasingly paranoid struggle to find answers was about to consume my life.
*Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Available for JUST 99 CENTS is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
He said he was a retired Special Forces Green Beret, a CIA runner, so I knew the information he had was potentially explosive. But even so, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated, and that the hit would be made to look like an “accident”. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until a week later, when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash, an “accident”…
That’s when the nightmare kicked in.
Was this the “accident” the American had told me about? my incredulous mind was suddenly forced to consider. Had Diana just been assassinated in a car crash? Who else knew what the American knew? Was he working alone? Or on ‘Company’ orders? Who else knew that he’d divulged this information to me?
My mind was a bad place to be.
Fearing for my own and my family’s safety, I turned to the one person I figured might be able to help. I’d known Rob Lacey for close on 20 years. He was a longstanding friend. He was also a frontline MI5 officer, and I knew that if anyone could offer insights, Lacey could. Trouble was, the insights he offered were not what I wanted to hear. “You’re on file as a tap,” he told me, meaning I was being surveilled. “Whatever your American friend said, you can rest assured our people heard it, too.”
In a hammer-blow twist Lacey also assured me that an MI6 plot to ‘take care of Diana’ had been hatched months ago, and that the plot had won support from the CIA due to the furious success of her landmines campaign. The man behind the plot, he said, was the head of MI6 Special Operations Europe, Richard Mason, someone Lacey had crossed swords with in the past: someone I would cross swords with soon enough.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being used as a pawn, that I’d been set up as a ‘cut-out’ in one of the most deadly conspiracies of modern times. All I knew was I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, the most obsessive, terrifying and increasingly paranoid struggle to find answers was about to consume my life.
*Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Available for JUST 99 CENTS is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
He said he was a retired Special Forces Green Beret, a CIA runner, so I knew the information he had was potentially explosive. But even so, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated, and that the hit would be made to look like an “accident”. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until a week later, when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash, an “accident”…
That’s when the nightmare kicked in.
Was this the “accident” the American had told me about? my incredulous mind was suddenly forced to consider. Had Diana just been assassinated in a car crash? Who else knew what the American knew? Was he working alone? Or on ‘Company’ orders? Who else knew that he’d divulged this information to me?
My mind was a bad place to be.
Fearing for my own and my family’s safety, I turned to the one person I figured might be able to help. I’d known Rob Lacey for close on 20 years. He was a longstanding friend. He was also a frontline MI5 officer, and I knew that if anyone could offer insights, Lacey could. Trouble was, the insights he offered were not what I wanted to hear. “You’re on file as a tap,” he told me, meaning I was being surveilled. “Whatever your American friend said, you can rest assured our people heard it, too.”
In a hammer-blow twist Lacey also assured me that an MI6 plot to ‘take care of Diana’ had been hatched months ago, and that the plot had won support from the CIA due to the furious success of her landmines campaign. The man behind the plot, he said, was the head of MI6 Special Operations Europe, Richard Mason, someone Lacey had crossed swords with in the past: someone I would cross swords with soon enough.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being used as a pawn, that I’d been set up as a ‘cut-out’ in one of the most deadly conspiracies of modern times. All I knew was I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, the most obsessive, terrifying and increasingly paranoid struggle to find answers was about to consume my life.
*Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Available for JUST 99 CENTS is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
He said he was a retired Special Forces Green Beret, a CIA runner, so I knew the information he had was potentially explosive. But even so, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated, and that the hit would be made to look like an “accident”. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until a week later, when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash, an “accident”…
That’s when the nightmare kicked in.
Was this the “accident” the American had told me about? my incredulous mind was suddenly forced to consider. Had Diana just been assassinated in a car crash? Who else knew what the American knew? Was he working alone? Or on ‘Company’ orders? Who else knew that he’d divulged this information to me?
My mind was a bad place to be.
Fearing for my own and my family’s safety, I turned to the one person I figured might be able to help. I’d known Rob Lacey for close on 20 years. He was a longstanding friend. He was also a frontline MI5 officer, and I knew that if anyone could offer insights, Lacey could. Trouble was, the insights he offered were not what I wanted to hear. “You’re on file as a tap,” he told me, meaning I was being surveilled. “Whatever your American friend said, you can rest assured our people heard it, too.”
In a hammer-blow twist Lacey also assured me that an MI6 plot to ‘take care of Diana’ had been hatched months ago, and that the plot had won support from the CIA due to the furious success of her landmines campaign. The man behind the plot, he said, was the head of MI6 Special Operations Europe, Richard Mason, someone Lacey had crossed swords with in the past: someone I would cross swords with soon enough.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being used as a pawn, that I’d been set up as a ‘cut-out’ in one of the most deadly conspiracies of modern times. All I knew was I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, the most obsessive, terrifying and increasingly paranoid struggle to find answers was about to consume my life.
*Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Available for JUST 99 CENTS is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
He said he was a retired Special Forces Green Beret, a CIA runner, so I knew the information he had was potentially explosive. But even so, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated, and that the hit would be made to look like an “accident”. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until a week later, when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash, an “accident”…
That’s when the nightmare kicked in.
Was this the “accident” the American had told me about? my incredulous mind was suddenly forced to consider. Had Diana just been assassinated in a car crash? Who else knew what the American knew? Was he working alone? Or on ‘Company’ orders? Who else knew that he’d divulged this information to me?
My mind was a bad place to be.
Fearing for my own and my family’s safety, I turned to the one person I figured might be able to help. I’d known Rob Lacey for close on 20 years. He was a longstanding friend. He was also a frontline MI5 officer, and I knew that if anyone could offer insights, Lacey could. Trouble was, the insights he offered were not what I wanted to hear. “You’re on file as a tap,” he told me, meaning I was being surveilled. “Whatever your American friend said, you can rest assured our people heard it, too.”
In a hammer-blow twist Lacey also assured me that an MI6 plot to ‘take care of Diana’ had been hatched months ago, and that the plot had won support from the CIA due to the furious success of her landmines campaign. The man behind the plot, he said, was the head of MI6 Special Operations Europe, Richard Mason, someone Lacey had crossed swords with in the past: someone I would cross swords with soon enough.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being used as a pawn, that I’d been set up as a ‘cut-out’ in one of the most deadly conspiracies of modern times. All I knew was I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, the most obsessive, terrifying and increasingly paranoid struggle to find answers was about to consume my life.
*Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Available for JUST 99 CENTS is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
He said he was a retired Special Forces Green Beret, a CIA runner, so I knew the information he had was potentially explosive. But even so, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated, and that the hit would be made to look like an “accident”. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until a week later, when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash, an “accident”…
That’s when the nightmare kicked in.
Was this the “accident” the American had told me about? my incredulous mind was suddenly forced to consider. Had Diana just been assassinated in a car crash? Who else knew what the American knew? Was he working alone? Or on ‘Company’ orders? Who else knew that he’d divulged this information to me?
My mind was a bad place to be.
Fearing for my own and my family’s safety, I turned to the one person I figured might be able to help. I’d known Rob Lacey for close on 20 years. He was a longstanding friend. He was also a frontline MI5 officer, and I knew that if anyone could offer insights, Lacey could. Trouble was, the insights he offered were not what I wanted to hear. “You’re on file as a tap,” he told me, meaning I was being surveilled. “Whatever your American friend said, you can rest assured our people heard it, too.”
In a hammer-blow twist Lacey also assured me that an MI6 plot to ‘take care of Diana’ had been hatched months ago, and that the plot had won support from the CIA due to the furious success of her landmines campaign. The man behind the plot, he said, was the head of MI6 Special Operations Europe, Richard Mason, someone Lacey had crossed swords with in the past: someone I would cross swords with soon enough.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being used as a pawn, that I’d been set up as a ‘cut-out’ in one of the most deadly conspiracies of modern times. All I knew was I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, the most obsessive, terrifying and increasingly paranoid struggle to find answers was about to consume my life.
*Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Available for JUST 99 CENTS is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
He said he was a retired Special Forces Green Beret, a CIA runner, so I knew the information he had was potentially explosive. But even so, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated, and that the hit would be made to look like an “accident”. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until a week later, when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash, an “accident”…
That’s when the nightmare kicked in.
Was this the “accident” the American had told me about? my incredulous mind was suddenly forced to consider. Had Diana just been assassinated in a car crash? Who else knew what the American knew? Was he working alone? Or on ‘Company’ orders? Who else knew that he’d divulged this information to me?
My mind was a bad place to be.
Fearing for my own and my family’s safety, I turned to the one person I figured might be able to help. I’d known Rob Lacey for close on 20 years. He was a longstanding friend. He was also a frontline MI5 officer, and I knew that if anyone could offer insights, Lacey could. Trouble was, the insights he offered were not what I wanted to hear. “You’re on file as a tap,” he told me, meaning I was being surveilled. “Whatever your American friend said, you can rest assured our people heard it, too.”
In a hammer-blow twist Lacey also assured me that an MI6 plot to ‘take care of Diana’ had been hatched months ago, and that the plot had won support from the CIA due to the furious success of her landmines campaign. The man behind the plot, he said, was the head of MI6 Special Operations Europe, Richard Mason, someone Lacey had crossed swords with in the past: someone I would cross swords with soon enough.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being used as a pawn, that I’d been set up as a ‘cut-out’ in one of the most deadly conspiracies of modern times. All I knew was I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, the most obsessive, terrifying and increasingly paranoid struggle to find answers was about to consume my life.
*Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Now available for a limited time as a BARGAIN BOOK is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
REVIEWS: “Breathtaking, compelling, intensely personal throughout – and terrifyingly true – The Cut-Out is probably the most important spy novel I’ve ever read.” Richard Collins, Onside Review.
“This really is a remarkable story, brilliantly told. For the first time I can now understand exactly how and why Princess Diana could have been murdered.” G.E. Harrison, Amazon UK Reviewer.
“All the thrills and spills of an above-average spy thriller and much much more! I really couldn’t put it down.” Writer Kerrie, Amazon US Verified Reviewer.
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LOGLINE: When the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until the assassination happened…
SYNOPSIS: Britain in the nineties was obsessed with the X-Files. The high street was awash with X-Files type magazines, and as senior editor of the biggest selling one on the market, I was accustomed to receiving phone calls from anonymous sources promising inside information. So when the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I took it in my stride. Why wouldn’t I? He was a former Special Forces Green Beret, he said. A CIA runner. He also said that the information he had was best not divulged over the telephone. So we arranged to meet. Nothing unusual in that.
What was unusual, though, was what the American told me, not at our first meeting, but at a subsequent one some months later. On this occasion he said he'd been made aware of an imminent prime-target assassination, that “one of the most prominent figures on the world stage” was about to be taken out, “within days from now”, though he claimed he was unable to reveal who the target was.
“Watch the news networks. You’ll know who it is soon enough.” He added: “The media will tell you it was an accident. You’ll know it wasn’t.”
I came away not knowing if I’d been fed a line or let in on the world’s most terrible secret. And I had no way of finding out, either, other than to wait, and watch the news.
I didn’t have to wait long. Because a week later the “accident” the American had alluded to was all over the news: the assassination he’d forewarned me about had happened.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being set up. Only that I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, I now faced the most terrifying challenge of my life—to get to the truth before the intelligence agencies got to me...
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Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Now available for a limited time as a BARGAIN BOOK is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
REVIEWS: “Breathtaking, compelling, intensely personal throughout – and terrifyingly true – The Cut-Out is probably the most important spy novel I’ve ever read.” Richard Collins, Onside Review.
“This really is a remarkable story, brilliantly told. For the first time I can now understand exactly how and why Princess Diana could have been murdered.” G.E. Harrison, Amazon UK Reviewer.
“All the thrills and spills of an above-average spy thriller and much much more! I really couldn’t put it down.” Writer Kerrie, Amazon US Verified Reviewer.
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LOGLINE: When the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until the assassination happened…
SYNOPSIS: Britain in the nineties was obsessed with the X-Files. The high street was awash with X-Files type magazines, and as senior editor of the biggest selling one on the market, I was accustomed to receiving phone calls from anonymous sources promising inside information. So when the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I took it in my stride. Why wouldn’t I? He was a former Special Forces Green Beret, he said. A CIA runner. He also said that the information he had was best not divulged over the telephone. So we arranged to meet. Nothing unusual in that.
What was unusual, though, was what the American told me, not at our first meeting, but at a subsequent one some months later. On this occasion he said he'd been made aware of an imminent prime-target assassination, that “one of the most prominent figures on the world stage” was about to be taken out, “within days from now”, though he claimed he was unable to reveal who the target was.
“Watch the news networks. You’ll know who it is soon enough.” He added: “The media will tell you it was an accident. You’ll know it wasn’t.”
I came away not knowing if I’d been fed a line or let in on the world’s most terrible secret. And I had no way of finding out, either, other than to wait, and watch the news.
I didn’t have to wait long. Because a week later the “accident” the American had alluded to was all over the news: the assassination he’d forewarned me about had happened.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being set up. Only that I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, I now faced the most terrifying challenge of my life—to get to the truth before the intelligence agencies got to me...
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Now available for a limited time as a BARGAIN BOOK is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
REVIEWS: “Breathtaking, compelling, intensely personal throughout – and terrifyingly true – The Cut-Out is probably the most important spy novel I’ve ever read.” Richard Collins, Onside Review.
“This really is a remarkable story, brilliantly told. For the first time I can now understand exactly how and why Princess Diana could have been murdered.” G.E. Harrison, Amazon UK Reviewer.
“All the thrills and spills of an above-average spy thriller and much much more! I really couldn’t put it down.” Writer Kerrie, Amazon US Verified Reviewer.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
LOGLINE: When the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until the assassination happened…
SYNOPSIS: Britain in the nineties was obsessed with the X-Files. The high street was awash with X-Files type magazines, and as senior editor of the biggest selling one on the market, I was accustomed to receiving phone calls from anonymous sources promising inside information. So when the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I took it in my stride. Why wouldn’t I? He was a former Special Forces Green Beret, he said. A CIA runner. He also said that the information he had was best not divulged over the telephone. So we arranged to meet. Nothing unusual in that.
What was unusual, though, was what the American told me, not at our first meeting, but at a subsequent one some months later. On this occasion he said he'd been made aware of an imminent prime-target assassination, that “one of the most prominent figures on the world stage” was about to be taken out, “within days from now”, though he claimed he was unable to reveal who the target was.
“Watch the news networks. You’ll know who it is soon enough.” He added: “The media will tell you it was an accident. You’ll know it wasn’t.”
I came away not knowing if I’d been fed a line or let in on the world’s most terrible secret. And I had no way of finding out, either, other than to wait, and watch the news.
I didn’t have to wait long. Because a week later the “accident” the American had alluded to was all over the news: the assassination he’d forewarned me about had happened.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being set up. Only that I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, I now faced the most terrifying challenge of my life—to get to the truth before the intelligence agencies got to me...
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Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Now available for a limited time as a BARGAIN BOOK is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
REVIEWS: “Breathtaking, compelling, intensely personal throughout – and terrifyingly true – The Cut-Out is probably the most important spy novel I’ve ever read.” Richard Collins, Onside Review.
“This really is a remarkable story, brilliantly told. For the first time I can now understand exactly how and why Princess Diana could have been murdered.” G.E. Harrison, Amazon UK Reviewer.
“All the thrills and spills of an above-average spy thriller and much much more! I really couldn’t put it down.” Writer Kerrie, Amazon US Verified Reviewer.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
LOGLINE: When the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until the assassination happened…
SYNOPSIS: Britain in the nineties was obsessed with the X-Files. The high street was awash with X-Files type magazines, and as senior editor of the biggest selling one on the market, I was accustomed to receiving phone calls from anonymous sources promising inside information. So when the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I took it in my stride. Why wouldn’t I? He was a former Special Forces Green Beret, he said. A CIA runner. He also said that the information he had was best not divulged over the telephone. So we arranged to meet. Nothing unusual in that.
What was unusual, though, was what the American told me, not at our first meeting, but at a subsequent one some months later. On this occasion he said he'd been made aware of an imminent prime-target assassination, that “one of the most prominent figures on the world stage” was about to be taken out, “within days from now”, though he claimed he was unable to reveal who the target was.
“Watch the news networks. You’ll know who it is soon enough.” He added: “The media will tell you it was an accident. You’ll know it wasn’t.”
I came away not knowing if I’d been fed a line or let in on the world’s most terrible secret. And I had no way of finding out, either, other than to wait, and watch the news.
I didn’t have to wait long. Because a week later the “accident” the American had alluded to was all over the news: the assassination he’d forewarned me about had happened.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being set up. Only that I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, I now faced the most terrifying challenge of my life—to get to the truth before the intelligence agencies got to me...
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Available for JUST 99 CENTS is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
REVIEWS: “Breathtaking, compelling, intensely personal throughout – and terrifyingly true – The Cut-Out is probably the most important spy novel I’ve ever read.” Richard Collins, Onside Review.
“This really is a remarkable story, brilliantly told. For the first time I can now understand exactly how and why Princess Diana could have been murdered.” G.E. Harrison, Amazon UK Reviewer.
“All the thrills and spills of an above-average spy thriller and much much more! I really couldn’t put it down.” Writer Kerrie, Amazon US Verified Reviewer.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
LOGLINE: When the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until the assassination happened…
SYNOPSIS: Britain in the nineties was obsessed with the X-Files. The high street was awash with X-Files type magazines, and as senior editor of the biggest selling one on the market, I was accustomed to receiving phone calls from anonymous sources promising inside information. So when the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I took it in my stride. Why wouldn’t I? He was a former Special Forces Green Beret, he said. A CIA runner. He also said that the information he had was best not divulged over the telephone. So we arranged to meet. Nothing unusual in that.
What was unusual, though, was what the American told me, not at our first meeting, but at a subsequent one some months later. On this occasion he said he'd been made aware of an imminent prime-target assassination, that “one of the most prominent figures on the world stage” was about to be taken out, “within days from now”, though he claimed he was unable to reveal who the target was.
“Watch the news networks. You’ll know who it is soon enough.” He added: “The media will tell you it was an accident. You’ll know it wasn’t.”
I came away not knowing if I’d been fed a line or let in on the world’s most terrible secret. And I had no way of finding out, either, other than to wait, and watch the news.
I didn’t have to wait long. Because a week later the “accident” the American had alluded to was all over the news: the assassination he’d forewarned me about had happened.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being set up. Only that I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, I now faced the most terrifying challenge of my life—to get to the truth before the intelligence agencies got to me...
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Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
Available for JUST 99 CENTS is The Cut-Out by Jon King (Click here for UK purchase) . Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
REVIEWS: “Breathtaking, compelling, intensely personal throughout – and terrifyingly true – The Cut-Out is probably the most important spy novel I’ve ever read.” Richard Collins, Onside Review.
“This really is a remarkable story, brilliantly told. For the first time I can now understand exactly how and why Princess Diana could have been murdered.” G.E. Harrison, Amazon UK Reviewer.
“All the thrills and spills of an above-average spy thriller and much much more! I really couldn’t put it down.” Writer Kerrie, Amazon US Verified Reviewer.
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LOGLINE: When the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I never imagined he would tell me what he did: that someone of global renown, “within days from now”, would be assassinated. Why tell me? A low-key conspiracy journalist? I didn’t know. And quite frankly, I didn’t believe him, either—until the assassination happened…
SYNOPSIS: Britain in the nineties was obsessed with the X-Files. The high street was awash with X-Files type magazines, and as senior editor of the biggest selling one on the market, I was accustomed to receiving phone calls from anonymous sources promising inside information. So when the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I took it in my stride. Why wouldn’t I? He was a former Special Forces Green Beret, he said. A CIA runner. He also said that the information he had was best not divulged over the telephone. So we arranged to meet. Nothing unusual in that.
What was unusual, though, was what the American told me, not at our first meeting, but at a subsequent one some months later. On this occasion he said he'd been made aware of an imminent prime-target assassination, that “one of the most prominent figures on the world stage” was about to be taken out, “within days from now”, though he claimed he was unable to reveal who the target was.
“Watch the news networks. You’ll know who it is soon enough.” He added: “The media will tell you it was an accident. You’ll know it wasn’t.”
I came away not knowing if I’d been fed a line or let in on the world’s most terrible secret. And I had no way of finding out, either, other than to wait, and watch the news.
I didn’t have to wait long. Because a week later the “accident” the American had alluded to was all over the news: the assassination he’d forewarned me about had happened.
Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being set up. Only that I’d been told something I wished I’d never been told. And that, because I had, I now faced the most terrifying challenge of my life—to get to the truth before the intelligence agencies got to me...
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Set mainly in London and Paris, The Cut-Out is an autobiographical spy novel of immense personal ordeal and chilling consequence. It is based on a true story.
