
ISBN 1-930677-44-8
313 pages ** 91,069 words
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The Sound of Death
by
Lawrence Tierney
The book is a fictional story based around the factual development of a weapon that used infrasonic sound to indiscriminately kill and destroy.
After leaving the Royal Navy, Harry Smythe becomes involved with a Government funded special covert unit whose Director is Harry's old Commanding Officer from his Malayan Conflict days.
British Intelligence are told that an East German scientist who is working on a top secret project, has discovered a way to protect himself against the effects of the infrasonic gun, and he wants to escape to the West. But he will only come over if his daughter is brought out at the same time.
The first job for Harry is to help the daughter to escape to England. Harry draws up a novel plan and with the help of a young woman from the British Embassy in Warsaw and a beautiful Polish spy the escape is successful.
The escape brings Harry into conflict with the East German Stasi and a KGB assassin, it also brings to light a KGB inspired plot to use terrorists to wipe out the British, French and American governments on the same day, using the infrasonic 'sound of death'. The British and the Americans also discover that there are two highly placed moles who are supplying the KGB and the terrorists with information about the two government's anti-terrorist activities.
And so the story begins to weave a complex web of high-stakes, international intrigue.
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