Description An edgy political thriller from a prize-winning writer for film, a story of treason, justice, and a covert international organisation.
Who is really pulling Mike Spencer’s strings? His Director General at Unit S? Oliver Cunningham from Special Services? Or Eileen Maloney, the suspected terrorist secretly detained in a military barracks in Northumberland? Set in the past of the sixties, during the rise of the New Left in Britain and international civil rights movements, and the present of the late nineties with its techno-surveillance culture, Small Acts of Treachery is an edgy political thriller. It tackles the theory of a covert international capitalist organisation which wields power behind closed doors, sets up front organisations to carry out its less salubrious policies and makes it its business to interfere in world governments.
At first Mike Spencer dismisses Eileen Maloney’s conspiracy theory, but as he begins to investigate CEPACC and its covert organisation, Crisis Call, he realises he’s in the centre of a political storm. Driven by his attraction to Maloney, his hostility to his DG, and an innate desire to know the truth, Mike Spencer treads a thin line between treason and justice. In the end he doesn’t know who to trust until he comes face to face with evil under the facade of an international Aid Agency.
Author Kitty Fitzgerald, a prize-winning writer for film, was born in Ireland and raised in Scawthorpe in England. She is the author of two previous novels, Snapdragons (Brandon 1999) and Marge (Sheba 1985), a collection of short stories and two plays.
She has written drama for film and for BBC Radio 4, and her film Dream On was awarded the most original screenplay at Le Baule Festival of European films, the Prix de Public at the International Festival in Cretil, and the Northern Electric Award for Authorship.
