The Operative Author:Duncan Falconer Another enjoyable Falconer weave of thrill and action takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride across half the globe to a nail-biting climax In war-torn Iraq, Stratton’s closest friend is killed while on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child. When the widow moves to Los Angeles she is brutally murdered and her child... more » placed in state custody. Stratton, rocked to his foundations by the killing, uncovers a FBI plot to hide the crime and sets off on a private operation of revenge that eventually pits him against one of the most powerful Eastern European crime syndicates in America. Hunted by the CIA and FBI as well as a brutal army of Albanian mobsters and armed only with his wits and an extraordinary skill with explosives, Stratton relentlessly pursues his private war, a fight he suspects could be his last.« less