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092    |fF|aBEAUMONT 
100 1  Beaumont, Jack,|eauthor. 
245 10 Dark Arena :|bthe Frenchman returns /|cJack Beaumont. 
264  1 Ashland, OR :|bBlackstone Publishing,|c2024. 
264  4 |c©2024 
300    451 pages ;|c22cm. 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
380    Fiction|2marcgt 
490 0  The Frenchman Series ;|v02. 
520    "Written by a former French spy, Dark Arena is an 
       espionage thriller that takes the reader through an 
       invisible but violent battle for energy supremacy in 
       Europe that led the invasion of Ukraine. February 2022. An
       officer of the Directorate-General for External Security 
       (DGSE), the French foreign intelligence agency, delivers a
       package of top secret Russian military information from 
       Prague to Paris, and is subsequently assassinated. So 
       begins a cat and mouse game across Europe as DGSE agent 
       Alec de Payns races to find the source of what has become 
       regular "drops" of highly sensitive information regarding 
       Russian military operations. De Payns infiltrates the 
       clandestine meeting a of Russian private military company,
       follows the trail of a shady individual codenamed Starkand,
       and nearly gets assassinated himself. Meanwhile, de Payns 
       marriage is falling apart and his mental state unraveling 
       as his wife, Romy, pulls away from her increasingly 
       paranoid husband. But as his personal life crumbles, his 
       professional life makes a breakthrough and the DGSE are 
       finally closing in on Starkand and the mysterious head of 
       an American spy network--who is much closer to home than 
       Alec ever imagined." -- Amazon.com 
520    "Alec de Payns, espionage operative of the Y division of 
       the DGSE, France's famed foreign intelligence service, is 
       tasked with tracking down an agent of influence sending 
       highly classified material against the Kremlin to 
       embassies all over Europe. A deadly conspiracy is aligning
       the West against Russia. But who is behind it? And to what
       end? The clues lead to a secret meeting of businessmen, 
       terrorists, and mercenaries on a luxury yacht in the 
       Mediterranean, which de Payns must infiltrate. What he 
       discovers sets off a Europe-wide mahunt in a desperate 
       scramble to prevent an international catastrophe. Former 
       DGSE spy Jack Beaumont's Dark Arena is another chillingly 
       plausible thriller delivering all the taut plotting, 
       superb aciton, and authentic spycraft that made The 
       Frenchman a critically acclaimed bestseller."--cover 
650  0 Intelligence service|zFrance|vFiction. 
650  0 Intelligence officers|zFrance|vFiction. 
650  0 Terrorism|xPrevention|vFiction. 
651  0 Mediterranean Region [151] 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft