Cirrus@Austlit

'I fix things. I can build you a house or remodel your bathroom. I can also make bad situations - and bad people - disappear.'

'Meet Mike. Runs a building site, drives a ute, likes a beer, loves his nail-gun.

'But Mike is hiding in plain sight. When the Pentagon call him in as 'Big Unit', he's another kind of contractor - one as handy with a Colt M4 as he is with a Skilsaw, a man as accustomed to danger, death, and pain as he is to a hammer and nails.

'In six action-packed true stories we follow a man who left foreign intelligence for a life 'on the tools', only to discover there's too many dangerous scenarios and terrible people still out there. The good guys need a James Bond in Blundstones. They need The Contractor.

'Tradie. Spy. Big Unit.

'Follow Big Unit as he goes undercover to save a family trapped by an ISIS-run drug cartel in the seedy back streets of Northern Pakistan to terrorist-besieged Paris to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Australia's most wanted murderer.' (Publication Summary)

'The Contractor returns.

'Mike is a big unit. He builds houses and drives a ute. But he isn't your typical tradie.

'When a client calls he downs tools and flies into the hot zone in his other guise - that of an elite private intelligence contractor.

'In four high-octane adventures, The Contractor takes on a counter-surveillance gig in Singapore, a jungle ambush on a bomb-maker in South-East Asia, a cannonball run against the Taliban in Kabul and a gun deal on a floating armoury in the Indian Ocean.

'Will Mike make it back to his BBQ and building site? Or will fate deliver The Contractor At Hell's Gate.' (Publication summary)