Exit Plan rips the lid off the modern Middle East and The War on Terror like little published before.
Terrorism, intrigue and betrayal surge to life with rare insight and colour through the stories of Bill Sloan and Shahid al Sheedi - one an MI6 agent, the other an agent of political Islam.
The two men are set on a deadly collision course when an audacious Arab Emirate attempts to acquire Weapons of Mass Destruction. The similarities in the backgrounds of Sloan and Sheedi are soon forgotten as they become embroiled in the ultimate game – at stake is control of the Middle East.
Empires will collapse, towers will fall and lives will be lost in this breathtakingly timely and cogent novel. Behind the driving, powerful prose is the mastery of Sixsmith, a man clearly in command of his subject matter who, in Exit Plan, has intelligently condensed decades of regional turmoil into a high-octane thriller.
Himself an ex-Intelligence Officer imprisoned in the Middle East prior to the events of
