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Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 The Beirut Contract
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'Lives are at stake. Time is running out. And someone has betrayed them.

'"You’re looking at twenty days to put together a team and rehearse an operation to accomplish something no Western power has been able to do in eight years. No-one has ever rescued a hostage from Lebanon."'

'The PLO is about to acquire nine reasons why the US will be powerless to retaliate against its outrages in the future. Nine American hostages are for sale and Yasser Arafat wants to buy them. America wants them back.

'The anti-terrorist mercenary force which exploded onto the pages of The Libyan Contract is reactivated for one final mission. Their orders are to bring the hostages home at any cost – and against all odds.

'The heart-stopping action of The Beirut Contract moves at a blistering pace – from Mexico to Turkey, from Baghdad to Beirut – as the mercenaries begin to wonder whether they are mere pawns in a deadly game of power-broking. What is mega-rich Jack Halloran doing at the PLO headquarters in Baghdad? How does Yasser Arafat know so much about their mission? Who is behind the brutal murders and mysterious disappearances?

'As circumstances spin out of their control, the mercenaries are forced to confront the possibility that they were never meant to get out of Lebanon alive.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Momentum reprint).

Notes

  • Dedication: For Nancy, without whom I would be living in a bar in Thailand with three wives.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan , 1989 .
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      Extent: 349p.
      ISBN: 0330271474 (pbk)
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Severn House ,
      1991 .
      Extent: 352p.
      ISBN: 0727842684
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Momentum Books , 2013 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 November 2013.
      ISBN: 9781760080082

Works about this Work

Timely Evocation Jane Freeman , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 69 no. 996 1989; (p. 33)

— Review of The Beirut Contract Paul Mann , 1989 single work novel
Timely Evocation Jane Freeman , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 69 no. 996 1989; (p. 33)

— Review of The Beirut Contract Paul Mann , 1989 single work novel
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