The Mongoose and the Cobra

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The cost of wealth and power</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Valentina Ortiz the largest political donor in the USA has made many enemies. That's made her overprotective of her two sons: her youngest Chuck is working under a false name as an analyst for the CIA in London and the eldest Diego never leaves her side as she directs her global business empire.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A mother's worst nightmare</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Chuck fails to turn up for work in London the alarm is raised. But when Diego is kidnapped in Switzerland Valentina faces a mother's worst nightmare. Desperate about the fate of her sons she'll stop at nothing to save them. The US President's chief of staff is soon pressuring Leonard de Vries the CIA director in London: Find Chuck and get him somewhere safe - </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>real</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> safe.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A mission for Mike</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Leonard De Vries turns to the one asset he truly trusts analyst Michaela 'Mike' Kingdom who was the last person to see Chuck alive when he turned up unannounced at her woodland home in Oxfordshire. Why was he convinced his life was in danger? And what did he mean when he announced he was going to see the tulips? The search for an answer to that riddle will propel Mike on a frightening and life-changing journey.</span></p>