The opium road - Shaun Clarke

Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous Asian country, was once part of the Soviet Union, but in the year 2000 it is one of the world's key transit points for the drugs that are flooding the streets of Britain. Indeed, so great has the drug threat become that the British government has determined to stop the flow at its source. This will not be easy. Opium is moving along the old Silk Road from Afghanistan into Tajikistan and northwards to Osh at an estimated rate of 100kg a day. Channelled through Russia into Europe, it is turned into the heroin injected by the growing number of junkies all over the British Isles. Important people need to be eliminated and the government turns to the SAS to do the job.