The Girl from Kandahar (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781717823229)

"If you're looking for a fast-paced, realistic political thriller, with a multi-perspective narrative, rich detail, and twists that will keep the reader guessing, look no further." - The San Francisco Book Review.

It's probably a bad idea to wed the man you love on the same night you're scheduled to go undercover for several months in Afghanistan. MI7 agent Marcie Brown must have realised that.

Twelve weeks later, no one will ever know. A misdirected drone strike on her village in Kandahar leaves no survivors.

In Britain, her husband attempts to cope by returning to work. An intelligence officer by trade, he joins an ongoing investigation into a home-grown terror cell smuggling explosives into the country. Two days later, he stumbles onto an Islamist plot to create carnage in central London.

As he assembles a team and sets about trying to foil it, fate concocts something even bigger and nastier for him. Something so shocking, it actually beggars belief.

Marcie is still alive. And she's one of the terrorists' chief conspirators.

As, by degrees, the unthinkable becomes undeniable, he's faced with a choice. He can't just give up on her. But nor can he allow her to come anywhere near killing thousands of innocent civilians.

Unfortunately, it looks like a stark choice between the two.

Yet where there's life, and love, there's hope. War may sometimes make you question everything. Sometimes it may even shatter your world. But not always. Occasionally, against all the odds, you win.

But to be fair, it is only very occasionally.

"Think through the suspense espionage thrillers that remain like phantoms in the brain and likely they will have been conceived by a British Isles author. We now add another master of the medium in J.J. Ward" - Grady Harp, Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer and Vine Voice.