The Devil's Work - Dominic Adler

"Channelling 'The Wild Geese' and 'Where Eagles Dare, ' Adler's hard-boiled, knowing homage to the action thriller has a dark, modern twist."
Harry Keeble, author of Crack House and Terror Cops.
A war-blighted African state, in thrall to the Chinese...
A rogue British security contractor, captured freelancing for a rebel general, interred in a high security prison...
An MI6 team under suspicion of betrayal, tasked with staging a rescue attempt...
Enter Cal Winter and the press-ganged mercenaries of The Firm, tasked with planning a daring assault on a remote, heavily guarded fortress. But Cal has another off-the-books objective: discover the traitor inside the MI6 team, believed to have been turned by the Chinese Ministry of State Security.
Cal's mission becomes a desperate warzone whodunnit, the only prize betrayal or sudden death. Outnumbered and outgunned, Cal's team are hunted by an elite team of Chinese commandos in a blood-soaked game of espionage and deception. As more of The Firm's secrets are revealed, Cal Winter is left with a perilous choice...