A Lethal Involvement

Peter Ashton #4

by Clive Egleton

Once again, Clive Egleton enthrals his readers in a compelling novel packed with tense and thrilling action, authentic detail and nail-biting suspense. 'A master of the genre.' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Egleton is a master.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Peter Ashton thinks that he has finished with the twilight world of the SIS. But when Captain Simon Oakham of the Royal Army Pay Corps goes A.W.O.L. immediately after a suspicious interview with the security service, Ashton is asked to track him down. The investigation leads from a Chechnyan hit-team as it careers through the south of England via two dead Army officers to a long-suppressed murder in Hong Kong. The key to it all is an embittered woman whose unsuspecting knowledge of a lethal involvement makes her especially vulnerable. His search for her could be equally lethal for Ashton.

312 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1996

About the author

Clive (Frederick William) Egleton was a British author of spy novels.

He enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps in 1945 to train as a tank driver while still underage. He was subsequently commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment for whom he served in India, Hong Kong, Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, The Persian Gulf and East Africa. He retired in 1975 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

His novel Seven Days to a Killing was filmed as The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine. Escape to Athena is a novelization of the 1979 movie of the same name.