Leslie Watkins

The Unexploded Man Leslie Watkins

Supported by Russia, a brutal proxy war continues in Syria driving millions of refugees towards Western Europe, destabilising country after country. The very fabric of the European Union faces collapse as soldiers string barbed wire across the continent. In Britain, the political classes are under attack. Dissidents who dare to speak out are murdered. Helped by unseen forces, unilateral disarmers are gaining power in Westminster.

This is a different kind of war . . . a new cold war . . . where there is no front line, no rules of engagement and more treachery than ever imagined.

"If elected I will never, under any circumstances, use a nuclear weapon," promises the leader of the British Opposition and the people love him for it.

One person, journalist David Barnett, is a pawn, an unwilling victim of Russia's evil plan to win the peace . . . the key to what is going on. Barnett is The Unexploded Man.




Grimly topical ... Watkins writes tightly and tautly and his background has an all too authentic ring to it. Manchester Evening News.

Daily Record: Good suspense stuff. Daily Record.

A dazzling piece of narrative writing. Daily Mail.

A highly readable political thriller that is streets ahead of its competition by having that essential ingredient - style. Liverpool Daily Post.

A chilling story of the cold war. Daily Telegraph.

The basic plot and the action scenes could be turned into a fine dramatic film, in the hands of the right producer. Weekender USA.

Masterminding by the author keeps the pay-off a surprise right up to the end. Publishers' Weekly.

An imaginative fast-moving suspense tale that never loses its grip on the reader. Mineapolis Tribune.

Powerful writing here. Southern Evening Echo.

The Unexploded Man a Political Warfare Thriller described as fiction but then again . . .