The Djerba Assignment

Jack Taylor, a retired U.S. Army MSgt now living in the British Overseas

Territory of Gibraltar and working as a private investigator is called

upon to investigate a kidnapping that has taken place on the Tunisian

island of Djerba. As he tracks down the perpetrators he discovers

the abduction of the young woman was not simply a local crime, but

one involving a European criminal gang as well as persons linked

to a foreign government. The complicated pursuit of the abducted

woman leads Jack from the island of Djerba to the island of Malta

and ultimately to Sicily.

Jack is obliged to return to the island of Djerba almost immediately

following the resolution of the kidnapping, but this time as part of a

CIA-sponsored paramilitary force tasked with rescuing a U.S. Army

covert signals teamâ€"a mission where his previous career as a special

forces operator is once again put to the test. Then, back in Gibraltar,

Jack is promptly recruited by Britain’s MI-5 to assist in exposing an

espionage effort meant to weaken the Territory’s ties with Great Britain.