# The Operative

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- Book: [The Operative](https://www.bookquiver.com/duncan-falconer/the-operative) ([The Operative.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/duncan-falconer/the-operative.md))
- Authors: [Duncan Falconer](https://www.bookquiver.com/duncan-falconer)
- Publisher: Sphere
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4812-227-1
- Published: 2010-10-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In war-torn Iraq, Stratton's closest friend is killed whilst on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child - Stratton's godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles she is brutally murdered and her child placed in state custody. Stratton, rocked to his foundations by the killing, uncovers a FBI plot to hide the crime and sets off on a private operation of revenge that eventually pits him against one of the most powerful East European crime syndicates in America. Hunted by the CIA and FBI as well as a brutal army of Albanian mobsters and armed only with his wits and an extraordinary skill with explosives, Stratton relentlessly pursues his private war; a fight he suspects could be his last. Yet another enjoyable Falconer weave of thrill and action wrapped in the rich authenticity that defined his previous novels, taking the reader on a roller-coaster ride across half the globe to a nail-biting climax.