Hodder & Stoughton The Dealer And The Dead

The arms dealer betrayed them. Now the survivors want revenge. SOMETIMES, surviving a war can almost seem worse than dying in it.In a Croatian village near Vukovar, no one who survived will ever forget the night they waited for the weapons they needed to make a last-ditch fight against the advancing Serbs.The promised delivery never came, and the village was overrun.Eighteen years later, a body is unearthed from a field, and with it the identity of the arms dealer who betrayed them.Now the villagers can plot their revenge. In leafy England, arms dealer Harvey Gillott regards himself as a man of his word.There is only one blemish on his record, and that was long ago.But Gillott, his family, his friends and his enemies are about to be pitched into a sequence of events that will unfold across Europe with breath-taking drama and almost biblical power.Harvey Gillott is about to find out what happens when the hand of the past suddenly reaches out to the present - and it's holding a gun.