Treachery includes a price, in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller from your Sunday Times-bestselling writer.

Helmand Province, Afghanistan: a lone convoy edges its method towards a deserted hill village, led by US Army Rangers in Mastiff APVs. Halting to search the area, the Rangers are strike by an enormous roadside bomb, and as half the patrol lay dead or hurt, the others are ambushed with armed forces precision. A close by British medical group responds to the call for back-up, but all are about The Judas Gate slaughtered when their Chinook helicopter is blown up.

The ambush is bad, but what’s worse is that, amidst the battlefield chatter found by Main Giles Roper, not all the Taliban voices are Afghan – some are British, as well as the commander bears an Irish accent; he actually brands himself ‘Shamrock’. Why would he commit this atrocity, but moreover can he become discovered before he masterminds another?

Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor straight down, with all the resources of the ‘Perfect Minister’s private army’ at his disposal. The fast and furious storyline sweeps the audience from Pakistan to Algeria to London to Paris to Ireland, numerous deaths on the way. The stakes are already high for Dillon and business a familiar, fatal face makes a dramatic reappearance. This time around, Dillon can not only end up being going to battle – the war will end up being coming to him, and he’ll learn that Judas has al-Qaeda on his side…