Ghost Force

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For this, my ninth techno-thriller, set in the future and, hopefully, sailing perilously close to the wind, I needed to be more careful than usual with my sources.

For reasons that I hope are obvious, I would not wish to implicate any senior officers, either naval or military, on either side of the Atlantic, within the many politically lethal issues contained in these pages.

I decided therefore to accept no direct advice or instruction from anyone; rather, I based the story on the strongly held views mentioned to me by so many commissioned officers over several years.

This book involves a new journey to the cold South Atlantic, and the ever-vexing questions surrounding the ownership of the remote Falkland Islands. And I have inevitably drawn on the mountain of knowledge I received from the Task Force Commander of the 1982 war, Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward, whose autobiography I helped to write fourteen years ago.

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