The second race-against-time thriller from the author of ROTTEN GODS, in the tradition of le Carre, Ludlum and Clancy. <br/>Intelligence officer Marika Hartmann captures an extremist foot-soldier guilty of a massacre of school children and aid workers in Southern Somalia. Renditioned to a CIA black site in Djibouti, the prisoner hints at a terror plot in the making.<br/>Marika and ex-Special Forces colleague PJ Johnson team up to investigate, uncovering a cold-blooded conspiracy that will decimate the cities of the West.<br/>From the refugee camps of East Africa to the azure waters off the Iranian coast, the marshes of Iraq to Syria s parched eastern desert, SAVAGE TIDE is a manhunt, a quest for truth, and a desperate search for the legacy of a cruel regime bent on dominating the world.<br/>'Barron is not one to pull his punches' COURIER-MAIL<br/>'Barron echoes the work of authors such as MacLean, Clancy and Ludlum' CANBERRA TIMES<br/>'Supremely intelligent and written at breathtaking pace,SAVAGE TIDE combines the very best of a thriller by Tom Clancy with the Boys Own action blockbuster of someone like Chris Ryan. The speed of the action is matched only by the sophistication of the prose and the originality of the plot. Greg Barron has proved he is a political thriller writer at the very top of his game.' Rob Minshull, ABC Weekend Bookworm