Lindsey Mellon

Straw Man is a spy thriller set in Rome, Ireland and Libya in the 1980s. On 12 October 1984 an IRA bomb intended to kill Margaret Thatcher explodes at the Conservative Party conference in Brighton. In the wake of the outrage, MI6 Rome Station Chief Haydon Talbot is tasked by his boss Mark Glasson with ensuring that planned shipments of the powerful explosive Semtex from Colonel Qaddafi’s revolutionary regime never reach the Provisional IRA. Charlie Lomax, a would-be entrepreneur living in Rome, is seeking to trade off his friendship with construction magnate Andrea Vispoli, who manages covert accounts for the radical Libyan regime. Vispoli introduces Charlie to Libyan spymaster A...

**The Sheikh – Synopsis** "The Sheikh" is a gripping spy thriller that traverses London and Khartoum during the volatile early 1990s. **A Disillusioned Agent**MI6 Station Chief Haydon Talbot anticipates a quiet final posting in the seemingly irrelevant desert backwater of Khartoum, with no significant British interests at stake. His personal life is in shambles; his marriage is failing, and his disillusionment with the service is growing. Contemplating his future, he confides in his old friend, MI5 senior figure Johnny Doyle, about potentially rejecting the job and leaving MI6 altogether. **Unexpected Alliances**Upon arrival in Khartoum, Haydon befriends Ali Kabbani, a liber...