The Kazak Contract
by PAUL PURNELL
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Pub Date May 23 2017 | Archive Date Aug 07 2019
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Description
James Ballantyne travels to Kazakhstan on a minor diplomatic assignment. A simple task, but he falls for the glamorous aide Ocksana Petrova, sent to guide him through the process. Fate leads him to the rescue of a US special agent who is the target of assassination by the Kazak authorities. What should Ballantyne do? Should he be led by duty or compassion?
Events force his hand and he recruits smugglers to get the agent away from Kazakhstan. The escape route is dangerous and it becomes clear they are being monitored every inch of the way. Is his new love, Ocksana, behind the surveillance? Or has his own team been infiltrated?
Getting out of Kazakhstan alive will draw upon all of James’s military skills, and a lot of luck. With ambush and deception along the way, will he make it to the border and safety? How can he protect his lover? This journey through a wild country stretches every nerve.
Advance Praise
Just read, with huge enjoyment, The Tontine Trap by Paul Purnell. It’s a complex and heady spy thriller, in which the hero, James Ballantyne, Foreign Office maverick, pits himself against a murky cast of mercenaries and hired killers, all with their own sinister agendas. Unable to protect the woman he loves, James goes underground to take his revenge, infiltrating an international conspiracy known as ‘The Tontine’. It is a mission which takes him from Kazakhstan and a Russian gaol, via Romania and an Alpine ski resort above Geneva, to Gozo – a small island off the coast of Malta. There James finally runs his quarry to earth – only to discover that there are two of them, and one of them is a woman.
It is a reckless, exciting and convincingly researched book, and I can’t wait now to read the first Ballantyne book, The Kazak Contract, to fill in the background.
Sue Bradbury OBE
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| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781911525493 |
| PRICE | $3.95 (USD) |
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The Kazak Contract
by PAUL PURNELL
4 stars
A fast-moving action story.
Apart from the rather abrupt ending which is seeing up a second book in the series, the book flows well.
James Ballantyne travels to Kazakhstan on a minor diplomatic assignment. A simple task, but he falls for the glamorous aide Ocksana Petrova, sent to guide him through the process. Fate leads him to the rescue of a US special agent who is the target of assassination by the Kazak authorities.
Getting out of Kazakhstan alive will draw upon all of James’s military skills, and a lot of luck. With ambush and deception along the way, will he make it to the border and safety? How can he protect his lover? This journey through a wild country stretches every nerve
The main characters are well developed, although the love relationship is a little flimsy, which ties the plot together.
Set in Kazakhstan, which makes a different setting for which allows for a bit more mystery in the story - exotic, unknown locations.
Overall, a good read.
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James Ballantyne, former army officer and now a diplomat and a covert spy, travels to Kazakhstan on a diplomatic assignment. He tells his local aide Ocksana Petrova that the new part of the capital feels like Brasilia the designer capital of Brazil. However officials wanting a bribe is still as old as time. His work almost finished he has a chat with an American in his hotel . This however changes things and James has to flee the country.
The novel reads like watching a good action movie. The exotic setting of Kazakhstan and neighbouring countries is interesting.I really liked reading it
It is not a very long novel. And that brings me to the only negative remark: the story ends abruptly and will continue in another novel. I definitely do not like cliffhangers and would recommend to combine those books into one John le Carre tome size one.
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