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book Intrepid Series Book 1 & 2 By Chris Allen Defender #1 Publisher: Momentum (Nov 2012) Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. ASIN: B00ABQ0L2A ISBN: 978-1743341377 Price: eBook €2.22 / Print €12.99 Pages: 374 Billed as part Jason Bourne and part James Bond type character; Alex Morgan is an agent of Interpol's Intelligence, Recovery, Protection and Infiltration Division – Intrepid. He certainly lives up to this claim, the ex-paratrooper turned Interpol's half cop/half spy is sent on his first solo mission to Africa - as the 3rd agent sent on this mission he tries to find out what happened to agents 1 & 2. He meets and falls for Arena Halls, a member of the British Foreign Office who is undercover as an aid worker. His priority is to withdraw workers from a mining company who are under fire in the Malfajira civil war, with the help of the USMC he succeeds but not without casualties. Here he meets his new nemesis Victor Lundt, whom he battles nearly to his death. Once recovered, Alex travels to Australia on the trail of a Foreign Office mole. Arena is kidnapped by Lundt and is used as a bargaining chip for when the final duel takes place. The evil killer Lundt, is wounded and on the run with Arena still trapped, but the ever determined and extreme professional Alex Morgan – will never let him get away. Hunter #2 Publisher: Momentum (Dec 2012) Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. ASIN: B009DZKFNK ISBN: 978-1743341384 Price: eBook €3.29 / Print €14.00 Pages: 440 Alex Morgan having recovered from his first mission is summoned to the Director of Intrepid, General Davenport's office and given a mission that will test him to the extreme. After a failed hit on a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), who is an old family friend of Davenports and the kidnapping of her only daughter – he is told "the safety catch is off, return that girl to her family and drag those b@stards back to justice - dead or alive - it makes no difference..." The mission takes him to the Balkans, 15 years after the war to track down Serbian War Criminals and members of the Zmajevi clan. To capture their leader Dragoslav "Drago" Obrenovic and his lethal enforcer known only as the "The Wolf", who has set about with his own mission - taking over as Šefa (Boss)! Follow Morgan and his team of Intrepid agents as they track and capture their targets using the latest technology and equipment to bring them to international justice in the Hague. Major Chris Allen (Retd) has seen and done it all, having served in three Commonwealth armies across two decades and four continents. As a paratrooper, he saw the world from under a billowing parachute, often by night, entering foreign countries with the usual passport-stamping obligations eschewed. Exiting military life with injuries, Chris transitioned into humanitarian aid work during the East Timorese emergency, served with three major law enforcement agencies in Australia, in the wake of 9/11 protecting Sydney's most iconic landmark and between 2008 & 2012 was the Sheriff of New South Wales. The Intrepid Series: 'Defender' and 'Hunter' have become instant eBook sensations with a print deal and a film franchise underway. http://intrepidallen.com | 39 dvd A Good Day to Die Hard Directed by: John Moore Written by: Skip Woods (based on the article "Farewell to Arms" by John Carlin) Starring: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Cole Hauser, Amaury Nolasco and Megalyn Echikunwoke Release Date: 07 June 2013 Runtime: 1hr 38mins Cert: 15 Bruce Willis reprises his role yet again in this his fifth appearance as the legendary NYPD cop John McClane in this action franchise. This time McClane travels to Russia to look up his estranged son Jack (Courtney), unbeknownst to John, Jack is an undercover CIA agent. Together they team up trying to stop a nuclear weapons heist by the Russian mafia, in this cat and mouse, tit-for-tat action adventure. With father and son at each other's throats, they both find out they have their own methods and ideologies on tackling situations – explosively! The film was enjoyable and entertaining with the comical one line gags and catch phrases only Willis can pull off! game Tomb Raider Adventurer Lara Croft Tomb Raider first appeared on our PC screens back in 1996, now in the 2013 re-imagining release of Tomb Raider the now modernised character is back with more substantially advanced in-game realism than ever before. After a brutal storm destroys the boat she was travelling on, a frightened young woman is left washed ashore on an unknown beach. On her own but not alone she begins the first adventure for a young and inexperienced Lara Croft in a story which charts the journey of an ordinary woman who finds out just how far she must go in order to stay alive. Armed with only the raw instincts and physical ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, Tomb Raider delivers an intense and gritty story into the origins of Lara Croft and her ascent from a frightened young woman to a hardened survivor. www.tombraider.com Genre: Action - Platform: Xbox 360, PS3 & PC - PEGI: 18 - Price €49.97 (gamestop.ie) - Release: 05 March 2013. © Square Enix Ltd. & Crystal Dynamics. All rights reserved. www.military.ie the defence forces magazine

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