The Truth and the Lies

By Douglas Boyd

A mysterious debt of honour saves TV news reporter Jon King from almost certain death at the hands of an Islamic terrorist group – a debt owed to his father, a captain in the French Foreign Legion named Koenig. Now, Jon is determined to discover the truth about Koenig. He travels to France to stay with his lover Regine and with her help sets to work on his investigation. Admiral Bonnard, a shady figure in French counter-intelligence tells them that Koenig was a political hit-man, wanted for desertion, and that he could have been killed in an attempt on de Gaulle’s life in 1962. King’s search for the truth reveals that Bonnard has plenty to hide… When a man who knew Koenig is brutally tortured and killed, it seems the murderous game in which Jon’s father was a player years before is still fought. Now, trapped in the cross-fire of a civil war in Algeria, Jon faces the toughest decision he has ever had to make. Whichever way he decides, someone close to him will die…