Operation Four Rings
Published on 1. March 2021
352 pages
978-1-912049-51-6 (ISBN)
Description
After the ceasefire in Laos in February 1973, London forbids Colonel Jason Rance, the British Defence Attaché in Laos, from continuing his search for four Lao 'moles', who work within the Communist Party and wear a dedicated ring as a talisman.
Unsanctioned contingency plans are therefore made by others for Rance to continue his work with the moles, the 'Four Rings', in an unattributable Operation Four Rings. But Rance remains ignorant of the plan and does not know he is in imminent danger.
The communists now suspect the Four Rings as well as Colonel Rance and they launch their own Operation Four Rings: to kill the four moles and the British Defence Attaché. The tightest of races ensues.
Based on historical fact and the author's personal experience, Operation Four Rings is the fifth in a series of books involving Gurkha military units and includes Operation Black Rose, Operation Janus, Operation Blind Spot and Operation Stealth. The author, a retired Gurkha colonel, draws on real characters and events he witnessed across various theatres of war.
Unsanctioned contingency plans are therefore made by others for Rance to continue his work with the moles, the 'Four Rings', in an unattributable Operation Four Rings. But Rance remains ignorant of the plan and does not know he is in imminent danger.
The communists now suspect the Four Rings as well as Colonel Rance and they launch their own Operation Four Rings: to kill the four moles and the British Defence Attaché. The tightest of races ensues.
Based on historical fact and the author's personal experience, Operation Four Rings is the fifth in a series of books involving Gurkha military units and includes Operation Black Rose, Operation Janus, Operation Blind Spot and Operation Stealth. The author, a retired Gurkha colonel, draws on real characters and events he witnessed across various theatres of war.
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Lt. Col. JP Cross is a retired British officer who served with Gurkha units for nearly forty years. He has been an Indian frontier soldier, jungle fighter, policeman, military attaché, Gurkha recruitment officer and a linguist researcher, and he is the author of twenty books. He has fought in Burma, Indo-China, Malaya and Borneo and served in India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Laos and Nepal where he now lives. Well into his nineties, he still walks four hours daily. Operation Stealth is the fourth in a series of historical military novels set in Southeast Asia comprising, in chronological order, Operation Black Rose, Operation Janus, Operation Blind Spot, Operation Stealth and Operation Four Rings. The first three books may be read in any order; the final two are sequential. The series features Gurkha military units, and the author draws on real events he witnessed and real people he fought alongside in various theatres of war in Southeast Asia and India.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table Of Contents
- Praise
- Preface
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- Epilogue
- About the Author
- Other Books by the Author
