Mask of Deceit

by David A. Davies

In this fast-paced, tightly woven espionage story, Chris Morehouse, a British contractor for the CIA, must intercept an assassin in Berlin. The shooter’s target: an Iranian nuclear scientist who wants to defect to the West. With minimal intelligence on the assassin—positioned somewhere in a specific high rise—Chris must find and eliminate the threat.

One split-second before the trigger pull, Chris realizes the assassin is someone he knows … very well. He freezes in the gut-wrenching decision—save the defector and kill his friend, or fail in his mission and let the shooter go free—and then …

In Mask of Deceit, David Davies takes readers on a journey that spans the globe from the United Kingdom to Germany, India to Greece, and the United States to Sweden. The plot weaves and spins, pitting intelligence agencies and spies against each other who all have one thing in common—deceit. Will Chris play the pawn and complete his mission, or will he let his emotions rule?

250 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2016

About the author

David A. Davies is a former security consultant with experience in executive protection, investigations and physical security design. David was engaged in the security industry in both the public and private sectors for more than 25 years and is now living quietly in Central Washington State. To date David has written five books in the Chris Morehouse series of espionage thrillers.

Reviews

[Robert Mitchell · Rating 5 out of 5]

David Davies proved he can play in the big leagues with his blockbuster debut thriller, The Potential. In Mask of Deceit, he pulls ahead of the pack with a mind-blowing, round-the-world, rocket sled ride of espionage, murder, love and international intrigue. Events, twists and turns “ripped from the headlines,” whip past at breakneck speed, just as they do in real life when national security and American lives are on the line.

Chris Morehouse is a “no bollocks” professional whose laser focus on precision and performance ensures the best odds for success in the most dire scenarios. While office politics, greed and hatred threaten to throw the ranks into disarray, Morehouse, forever reminded of his humble beginnings, gets the job done when others can’t.

Davies illuminates the nuts-and-bolts requirements of daily survival for those perpetually torn between two worlds, the mundane and the menacing. Morehouse’s origins in the former inform his talents for managing the latter in a way we haven’t seen before. Davies’ unassuming hero, while certainly fallible, is forever the good soldier, the good boyfriend, the good brother, the good son. We are in the end as trusting in his character as we are in skills of the ultimate “driver,” David Davies. Together, they take us on an adventure we will never forget.