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The Scarlet Cockerel - A Hunt for Terrorists

by Jan Guillou, Translated by Benjamin David Tallis

257 pages; Other binding; catalogue #04-1822; ISBN 1-4120-4015-9; US$34.78, C$40.00, EUR28.57, £20.00

Detailed description of a terrorist operation.

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About the Book

The Swedish counter spy department has - without parliamentary approval - decided to obtain a new secret weapon. The first prototype is now delivered and is to be tested under realistic conditions. The weapon is called Carl Gustaf Gilbert Hamilton, formerly Clarteist, formerly Vietnam activist, lieutenant in the Navy reserve and specially trained at the CIA's agent academy in the USA - training which has made him extremely skillful in data processing techniques as well as with small weapons and in close combat.

When a high Security Department official is shot in Stockholm Carl is slipped in with the Security Police to be tested. During the investigation which follows, attention is directed at certain Palestinian terror groups, and Carl gets real opportunities to show what he can do...

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About the Author

The author's are/were reporters in Oslo.

Translator's background:

BA Michigan State University - Sociology
Diploma University of Stockholm - Swedish
Military Occupation Specialty - Order of Battle Specialist, G2 Department, 18th Airborne Corps Headquarters
Service, 3 years, at the American Embassy in Stockholm as assistant Commissary Manager Computer Programmer - United Mine Workers Pension Fund
Head, ADP, Naval Electronics System Command
Translator: Scandinavian languages: Office of Civil Defense.

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