Greenfly
By Philip McCutchan
When undercover agent Commander Shaw returns to London from a job in Spain, the last thing he expects to find is his flat turned upside down.
But this is no ordinary break-in. The culprit was clearly looking for something. One clue lies just beneath his telephone receiver: a tiny, metal greenfly.
The Greenfly group are understood by Commander Shaw and his 6D2 associate, Felicity Mandrake, to be a secret organisation of extremists seeking to take over power in the Kremlin. But his resulting assignment to the Harz Mountains in West Germany, to intercept a woman believed to hold information vital to his mission, proves to be a disaster.
Now Commander Shaw is left only with more questions, and a sense of just how far the Greenflies are prepared to go to keep their advanced ideas a secret. But with plenty of familiar faces seemingly willing to help him in his mission, the problem lies in correctly identifying who he can trust.
There’s another – equally violent – group beginning to emerge: The Ladybirds.
Just as ladybirds are known to eat greenflies in nature, this dangerous group of women are intent on stamping out the last of the greenflies before they can do any more damage.
Commander Shaw must gain their trust if he is to come at all close to foiling the plans of the extremists.
If he doesn’t, it could just be the start of World War Three.
Greenfly is an action-packed and thrilling addition to the Commander Shaw series, filled to the brim with suspense.
Philip McCutchan (1920-1996) grew up in the naval atmosphere of Portsmouth Dockyard and developed a lifetime’s interest in the sea. Military history was an early interest resulting in several fiction books, from amongst his large output, about the British Army and its campaigns, especially in the last 150 years.
