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Duncan Forrester has travelled to Greece, intent on recovering the ancient Cretan stone he discovered during the war, while part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander. But during a visit to Athens he witnesses the poisoning of a Greek poet, who it appears may have not been the intended target. The man Forrester believes to have been marked for death is a general, who has been approached to lead ELAS, the military arm of the Greek communists. With Greece on the brink of civil war, and more attempts made on the general's life - not to mention an enemy from his own past on his heels - Forrester knows that the country's future depends on the fate of one man ... The man Forrester believes to have been marked for death is a general, who has been approached to lead ELAS, the military arm of the Greek communists. With Greece on the brink of civil war, and more attempts made on the general's life - not to mention an enemy from his own past on his heels - Forrester knows that the country's future depends on the fate of one man ...
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Gavin Scott
Gavin Scott is a novelist, broadcaster and writer of the Emmy-winning mini-series "Mists of Avalon", Dreamworks' "Small Soldiers", Working Title's "The Borrowers" and Sci Fi's "Legends of Earthsea" He produced and directed more than two hundred documentaries and short films for BBC and the commercial TV in the UK before moving to the United States, where his first assignment was with George Lucas, developing and scripting "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles".
He is currently writing a World War Two action adventure for Sony Pictures.
He wrote and directed the New Zealand film "Battle of Treasure Island", starring Randy Quaid, for Limelight Films.
"Absolutely Anything", the script he wrote with Terry Jones starred Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale, with Eddie Izzard, Rob Riggle and Joanna Lumley and the voices of Robin Williams and most of the Python team.
Archetype Productions and Lucas Foster ("Mr and Mrs Smith") are set to produce Gavin's World War Two supernatural adventure "Lost Squad", a combination of "The Matrix" and "Where Eagles Dare", inspired by the graphic novels of Chris Kirby.
For Germany's Gruppe 5 productions he will be show-running a ten part series about Dona Gracia Nasi, a 16th century female Schindler who negotiated with Popes, Sultans and Emperors, set up a continent-wide escape route, set up a colony on the coast of what had been ancient Israel and saved thousands of Jews from the Inquisition.
He created and executive produced "The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne" a 22 part sci-fi adventure series set in the nineteenth century about, which was broadcast around the world.
He has appeared on Spike TV 's "Deadliest Warrior" as an expert on the Arab Revolt and also featured in Ridley Scott's "Prophets of Science Fiction" series, and in British documentaries about Jules Verne and Harry Potter.
Gavin's 8 hour adaptation of "War and Peace" for Lux Vida SPA, starred Malcolm McDowell and Clement Poesy and was directed by Robert Dornhelm ("Into the West", "The Ten Commandments") .
For Castle Rock he scripted "Brooke", the saga of a young 19th century Englishman who set up a dynasty of white rajahs in Sarawak, and "First American", the story of revolutionary war hero Daniel Boone, who rose above personal tragedy to save America's western settlements during the Revolutionary War.
Born in Hull, Yorkshire, Gavin emigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1961. At 17 he spent a year as a volunteer teacher in the jungles of Borneo, working with the children of head-hunters, after which he studied history and political science at Victoria University of Wellington and journ
