Traitor (Stratton #6)
by Duncan Falconer
3.75 of 5 stars
3.75 · rating details · 99 ratings · 4 reviews 23
Stratton's sixth adventure comes to a ripping climax in the heart of Russia, far below ground After a surveillance mission in Sevastopol goes badly wrong, Stratton finds himself doing penance at MI16, the government's clandestine organization that creates weapons equipment for special forces and the secret service. But Sevastopol has started something. In the North Sea a team of hijackers take over the giant Morpheus oil platform, demanding two billion dollars within 24 hours—or the bodies will start falling. With the SBS overstretched and its surveillance team locked down, there is only one option: Stratton and a team of unproven MI16 operatives. Stratton knows he has to redeem himself and he also has his own agenda. One of the men on the rig is an old friend, and Stratton intends to save him. But one member of Stratton's team has their own deadly agenda, and Morpheus is just the beginning.



After an upbringing in an orphanage in North London he moved to Battersea where he lived and went to school and at 17 joined the Royal Marines. Due to a series of unusual circumstances he found himself attending the Special Boat Squadron selection in Poole, Dorset at just 19 years old. Out of almost 150 men, he and 8 others managed to get through the gruelling selection course. He subsequently went on to serve a dozen years in the SBS, many of them as an anti-terrorist undercover operator.

He was a pioneer of modern maritime counter terrorism and was involved in operations during the Falklands as well as conventional Special Forces operations around the world. On completion of his Service he joined the ‘civilian sector’ where he continued to use and improve his skills operating mostly alone in hostile environments instructing, information gathering, risk advising and assessing, and sometimes becoming involved in such diverse and dangerous activities as running poaching-hunting operations in West Africa.

In the last few years Falconer has operated at length and most often alone in places such as Afghanistan, Palestine, Liberia and throughout Iraq. In between all of this he has managed to write several screenplays, create a TV show and novels using characters he encounters on his travels. He now lives anywhere between his three bases in England, North America, and South Africa.