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y separately published work icon Second Strike single work   novel   thriller  
Is part of Mac Mark Abernethy , 2007 series - author novel (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Second Strike
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'In the early hours of October 13, 2002, Australian spy Alan McQueen is jolted awake and told to immediately head to Bali, where more than two hundred people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts.

'Descending into Denpasar, Mac finds tensions running high between MI6, ASIS and the CIA, not to mention the Indonesian national police and Indonesian intel. Assigned to keep watch on the Australian forensic scientists working the bomb site - where the official line being peddled is that all the bombs were home-made - Mac learns that in fact one of the bombs was a military-grade mini-nuke.

'Trying to glean the motives for misleading the public, Mac pursues a shady group of businessmen-terrorists through the wilds of west Java and into Sumatra. But the trail goes dead when the terrorists fly out of Sumatra in an unmarked plane.

'Five years later, Mac is a freelance investigator living in Surfers Paradise, with his wife, Jenny, and baby daughter. During an apparently routine assignment looking into the people behind an Indonesian bio-engineering facility, Mac's partner is shot and MI6 turn up rather too quickly. Before too long Mac finds himself embroiled in the dangerous world of a new nuclear arms race.

'Forced on the run, with no Commonwealth back up, Mac suspects a connection between what's going on and the 2002 Bali bombings. Remembering back to a puzzling note he found back then with M4' written on it, he suddenly realises it referred to Mantiqui Four, the legendary Fourth Brigade of Jemaah Islamyiah, who are dedicated to an attack on Australian soil.

'The race is on as Mac discovers that the Fourth Brigade still have one remaining mini-nuke device. With ever-increasing tension, he trails his quarry from Indonesia to the Australian outback. In a thrilling denouement, involving three SAS troopers, several Israelis, the Indonesian police, and a Pakistani, Mac finds faced with more questions than answers. (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Arena , 2008 .
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      Extent: 416p.
      Note/s:
      • Published January 1st 2008

      ISBN: 9781741755619
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2011 .
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      Extent: 437p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 1st 2011
      ISBN: 9781741757682

Other Formats

  • Braille.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 August 2008; (p. 26)

— Review of Second Strike Mark Abernethy , 2008 single work novel
[Review] Second Strike Shane Strange , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 87 no. 9 2008; (p. 51)

— Review of Second Strike Mark Abernethy , 2008 single work novel
[Review] Second Strike Shane Strange , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 87 no. 9 2008; (p. 51)

— Review of Second Strike Mark Abernethy , 2008 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 August 2008; (p. 26)

— Review of Second Strike Mark Abernethy , 2008 single work novel
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