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The Colonel's Mistake
The Colonel's Mistake
The Colonel's Mistake
Audiobook8 hours

The Colonel's Mistake

Written by Dan Mayland

Narrated by Richard Allen

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Mark Sava, former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan, lives a quiet life as a professor at Western University in the city of Baku. But his peace is shattered by both the assassination of a high-level American during an international oil conference and the arrest of CIA operations officer Daria Buckingham for the crime.

Sava knows the Iranian American Buckingham well—he personally trained her—and doesn’t believe she had anything to do with the murder, so he visits a CIA control center to discuss the situation with the new station chief. When no one answers the outside intercom, Sava overrides the security code and stumbles upon the grisliest scene of his career. Now, he can’t help but wonder if he really knows Buckingham as well as he thought…

Determined to find out, Sava soon finds himself and a partner caught in the middle of the new Great Game—a deadly intelligence war over oil that has Iran, China, and the United States clawing at each other’s throats. Meanwhile, Colonel Henry Amato, assistant to the US national security advisor, is keeping a close watch on the situation from Washington. His stake in the Great Game is high—and personal.

From the shadows of the world’s most volatile region to the highest levels of Washington politics, The Colonel’s Mistake takes readers on an unforgettable ride where the good, the bad, and the brutal play a deadly chess game of global espionage.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 21, 2012
ISBN9781469211565
The Colonel's Mistake
Author

Dan Mayland

Dan Mayland spent years exploring the outer limits of Western civilization and beyond. He has slept on the streets of Europe, summited mountains in Colombia and Bolivia, trekked through Bhutan and Nepal, visited remote Buddhist monasteries in India, and explored Shiite mosques in Iran and Azerbaijan. An international news and foreign policy junkie, Mayland is an avid reader of Stratfor.com, AlJazeera.com, ForeignPolicy.com, Ettelaat.com, and Rferl.com, and he has written articles for Iranian.com. Mayland’s first book, The Colonel’s Mistake, is the inaugural novel of the Mark Sava series.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This was an enjoyable thriller set primarily in Azerbaijan but with diversions to Iran, Iraq, France and America as the plot progressed. Basically the plot is based around US fears of Iran. The lead character Mark Sava - an ex CIA head of station in Baku - displayed a marked weariness with US meddling in the region. That however is an aside. Primarily this is an easy read that propels itself along at a rapid rate, through a suitably intricate plot that had me wondering throughout as to how it would end. This is the first in a proposed series based around Mark Sava.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    OK start to a new spy thriller series, but this did not really make me salivate at the prospect of more to come. .Another lone-wolf lead character running around in Central Asia turns out to be more than he first appears.
    The writing is proficient; the background interesting and the plot not too far fetched. Definitely worth a punt if it crops up as a Kindle bargain!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5


    Excellent!! This book was interesting, exciting, and gripping. Dan Mayland has a talent for making the story come alive. The Colonel's Mistake was action packed. The characters were well developed and believable. This is a gripping page turner that I highly recommend. I'm glad to hear that this will be the first in a series of Mark Sava spy thrillers! The book is outstanding and a must read.

    Disclosure: I received this book for free from Goodreads, however this had no impact on my review. I rated the story for the excellent quality with which it was written.