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"COAST: An Act Of Burial" is a spy thriller surrounding a top secret black-ops regiment, the Covert Operations And Surveillance Team. "The Team" as its agents refer to it, is deep underground but instantly prepared for counter-spy work, assassination, reconnaissance, hostage rescue and the like. COAST operates in an unusual valley between established concealed armed units such as the SAS and Delta Force, not to mention secret intelligence services like MI6 or the CIA. One of the primary characters carries out an assassination in Paris, taking out an unlawful arms dealer. Near about the same moment a Royal Fleet Auxiliary boat is sunk in the Gulf Of Arabia and her consignments of nuclear warheads stolen. The ship's assignment had to be classified above top secret, which suggests that there is a traitor somewhere in the British secret services. Some days later a British nuclear scientist, his partner as well as his daughter are kidnapped from their property and analysis shows him to be the developer of the stolen warheads. Evidently the events are linked. Following a lengthy trail of clues the core characters investigate these disappearances however it soon becomes evident that the plot is a lot more insidious than they'd considered. In the course of their enquiries they journey to the gulf, Russia and different parts of the UK. Mayhem and destruction follow as the person who is behind these crimes attempts to erase all evidence. The investigation takes them all over the world. During their travels they meet old friends, make new ones, expel traitors and cause chaos. They get into some unbelievably sticky circumstances and have to depend on verve, guts and cunning spycraft to make improvement in the massive job of rescuing the nuclear weapons. There are action sequences which are volatile, fast-paced, real and pull the audience right in. This is a book you won't want to put down, I guarantee it! Xander Richards is a Canadian writer. Born in Great Britain, he emigrated to Canada as a younger man and is currently in his late forties, married with four adult children and four grandchildren. Xander Richards makes his home in the area of Saskatchewan with his life partner Mindy. In an unusual twist of fate, the cover painting for "COAST: An Act Of Burial" was designed by celebrated Canadian fine art painter Jonathon Bowser, whose beautiful oil-on-linen image 'The Awakening' was notoriously stolen by none other than infamous Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for his book 'Zabibah And The King'. Xander Richards for that reason has the dubious distinction of sharing a cover artist with one of the greatest mass-murderers of our times! "COAST: An Act Of Burial" is available through Amazon,, Barnes and Noble, Sony Store, Apple iStore, Kobo and Copia, for devices such as Kindle, Kindle Fire, Nook, Sony Reader, apple ipad and so on. Richard's site espionage claims that a printed edition may be released and that a sequel is in the works.