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Little Brother

Little Brother is a 1997 book by author David Mason and a sequel to 1993 book Shadow Over Babylon. Taking place in 1993, some time after the events in Shadow Over Babylon, the original mercenary team are once again hired to perform a dangerous mission. Elements of the former GDR Stasi based in North Korea threaten to de-stabalise a long awaited peace agreement. It is the task of the mercenary team to infiltrate and prevent the Stasi completing their task.

Plot Summary An un-named group stages a robbery on a high-tech security organisation and steals the components and software of a new system IRIS which is capable of facial recognition. The story follows the group, later revealed to be Stasi operatives, in their attempts to weaponise the system to assassinate a high-ranking political target.

Parallel to the weaponisation the main story follows the lives of the team from Shadow Over Babylon who have unofficial backing from the British Government to plant surveillence equipment in a North Korean nuclear facility defended by a Stasi cell.

While conducting their mission the team are tracked by the actions of a double-agent who is working for the Stasi. Their position is soon compromised and a fiece gunfight ensues after successful bugging of the nuclear facility. Making their way across the DMZ with help from agencies on the South Korean side, the team are able to escape but sustain casualties.

In the final chapters of the book the team, having successfully infiltrated the Stasi compound and escaped from North Korea, participate in a race against time to prevent the assassination of Flag Man.

After the device is blinded by the security teams of the White House the end of the book sees Yitzahk Rabin and Yasser Arafat shake hands in the famous Oslo Accords.

The closing pages of the book sees the Stasi Colonel assessing his new and lucrative arrangement with foreign powers in a new light and as an opportunity. Also revealed is the background of the renegade nuclear scientist sent to plant the devices.

The future activites of the team are not known or alluded to in the plot, no further sequels have been published to date.

Hardcover: 512 pages Publisher: Corgi Childrens; New Ed edition (Sep 1997) Language English ISBN-10: 0552760137 ISBN-13: 978-0552760133