Trading Loyalties
LYING for a living, betraying confidences and surviving on your wits – it’s all in a day’s work for spy-for-hire Ross Slater.
A former paratrooper and cop, he practically stumbled into the world of international espionage by accident when he landed a job as a security advisor with Greenpeace. For the next three years, however, he became Special Branch’s man on the inside of the environmental activists, playing a key role in some of the group’s most high profile stunts, while at the same time tipping off the authorities to their intentions.
Then, after the horrifying murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, Slater became an agent for both MI5 and MI6 when he uncovered what the security services believed was evidence of further Russian secret service activity in the UK.
It was to be an assignment that pushed Slater to the brink of sanity as he discovered the reality of being an undercover agent today is a world away from the glamour of James Bond. Routinely living on his wits, he tells what life is really like for the private spies who regularly lay their lives on the line for their country with scant reward.
For seven years he kept his dual role secret from even his closest family and friends while he risked everything to serve his country. Trading Loyalties is a gripping page-turner revealing the truth about life as a “deniable agent”.
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Douglas Wight has been a journalist for 18 years covering news, features, politics and investigations.
He has reported on world news events including the legacy of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, the Dunblane massacre and the death of Michael Jackson from Los Angeles. He reported on the aftermath of the World Trade Centre terrorist attacks for the New York Post.
A former reporter for the Sun newspaper, he has held news editor and features editor positions for the News of the World – formerly Britain's biggest selling newspaper - and for the last three years before its clo...
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Ross Slater is a former lance corporal in the Parachute Regiment who served six years duty from 1974 to 1980, including a perilous tour of duty in Northern Ireland. Lucky to survive the IRA’s first remote-controlled car bomb blast, he eventually left the army to become a cop with Thames Valley Police.
Seeking more adventure he landed a role as a security consultant to the Sultan of Brunei before striking out on his own as an independent investigator. Among his roles was as an undercover detective working at a food wholesalers reporting to the Regional Crime Squad.
Slater then re-joi...
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