Contributor(s):Author: Phil Valentine Sterling Mc Queen is a different kind of spy.
He lives off the grid and below the radar.
No computer.
No cell phone.
No fancy gadgets.
Nothing that would allow his enemies to track him.
He lives by his wits and the tradecraft he learned from the greatest of a lost generation of spies.
Instead of cyber hacks and geosynchronous satellite tracking, Mc Queen's world is one of dead drops, concealment devices, and black bag jobs.
In a world of Big Brother watching our every move Sterling Mc Queen is invisible.
He works for a super-secret intelligence agency, the Strategic Support Branch.
The SSB relies primarily on the nearly lost art of human intelligence.
They cultivate assets abroad to burrow deep down inside the organizations that pose the biggest threat to the United States of America.
What was old is now new again, and Sterling Mc Queen's special set of skills are once again in high demand.
Super computers and stealth drones are no longer enough to keep the world safe.
The world now needs Sterling Mc Queen.
Let's face it, most books in the spy genre these days rely far too much on gadgetry and over-the-top stunts that only happen in the movies.
Isn't it time someone returned to the vintage spy novel? Barbican is a political thriller written in the mold of the old spy classics.
Our hero, Sterling Mc Queen, shuns modern technology in favor of the more reliable standbys of human intelligence and his own keen power of deduction.
This is a mystery/thriller filled with intrigue, layered with nuance, and peppered with more twists and turns than an Alpine highway.
Hostages are being snatched all across Europe.
They come from different countries and different backgrounds, but they all have two traits in common.
They're Jewish and they're rich.
German intelligence is close to solving the mystery when an asset--a professor of Middle Eastern studies--is kidnapped in Brussels.
Sterling Mc Queen is dispatched by the Strategic Support Branch (SSB) in the.
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