Book excerpt: * The chilling thriller from an international bestselling phenomenon. * 'A triumph of plot, construction and research' The Times ____________ Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan within a plan that, in its spine-chilling ingenuity, breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a jigsaw of devastation. MI5 investigator John Preston, working against the most urgent of deadlines, leads an operation to prevent the act of murderous destruction aimed at tumbling Britain into revolution... ____________ Readers love The Fourth Protocol ... ***** 'One of the best spy books around.' ***** 'The Fourth Protocol is my favourite spy novel of all time.' ***** 'Trust a master story teller to write an epic!' ***** 'I have probably read this book cover-to-cover a dozen times.' ***** 'Have read this book several times but a re-visit every so often seems to be inevitable and worth my time.'