Michael Kendall

Laundryman Michael Kendall

A powerful fact-based novel. A quest to establish if the murders of engineers past and present, working on British defence projects, are traceable to a powerful Russian Mafia organisation, operating in the grey subvention of the Russian Federation Government. The protagonist works for MI5. and is haunted by an encounter at a money laundering seminar in Sweden when a female Russian Government civil servant is murdered by the Russian SVR after she attempts to warn him that secrets of Britain's main defence deterrent, the Astute Class submarine, have been compromised. Are the Russians playing the disinformation game? Does the warning refer to Mafia money laundering on enormous submarine materiel contracts or is there a technical leak involving communications and detection? He discoveres that senior management are holding back on the covert cooperation they have with a secret Kremlin organisation called LAUNDRYMAN?