title: The Maghreb Conspiracy: The third spy story in Croft's Mideast trilogy
author:  Roger Croft 
description: SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW<br /><br />Croft's style of writing is perfectly matched to the rythm of a good spy novel, that is to say that he moves along at a good solid pace, and his ancillary characters get just the right amount of character development--enough to make them interesting, but not enough to steal the limelight from the star of the story...<br /><br />THE DAILY STAR, BEIRUT<br /><br />Set in the mid-2000's during a spate of Islamist terrorist attacks--including the Madrid and London bombings in 2004 and 2005 respectively--the novel sees Vaux calledback to work for Department B3, an under-staffed, semi-autonomous subdivision of MI6...<br /><br />Croft's interest in regional politics here plays second fiddle to the tangled web of communications between various agents, some of whom are playing double and even triple games.<br /><br />Croft can [now]retire[ Vaux]safe in the knowledge that the trilogy's final installment is a fitting farewell.<br />--India Stroughton.<br /><br />Croft's third spy novel featuring MI6 operative and ex-journalist Michael Vaux.A wet-behind-the-ears agent, Sebastian Micklethwait, lands an extremely sensitive assignment. He is to travel with facilitator Mokhtar Tawil to Morocco where Tawil will help him connect with a member of Al-Qaeda who's offered to providekey intelligence on the group's plans.<br /><br />The mission, goes awry almost immediately: Tawil is murdered and Micklethwait himself is taken prisoner. It falls to Vaux to try and salvage whatever can be salvaged.<br /><br />Vaux is a familiar genre type, a maverick who gets results.<br /><br />--<b>PUBLISHERS WEEKLY</b>
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  ##  Brad Magnarella
  
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  # Table of Contents
  
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  [ Chapter 2 ](text00005.html#chapter-2)
  
  [ Chapter 3 ](text00006.html#chapter-3)
  
  [ Chapter 4 ](text00007.html#chapter-4)
  
  [ Chapter 5 ](text00008.html#chapter-5)
  
  [ Chapter 6 ](text00009.html#chapter-6)
  
  [ Chapter 7 ](text00010.html#chapter-7)
  
  [ Chapter 8 ](text00011.html#chapter-8)
  
  [ Chapter 9 ](text00012.html#chapter-9)
  
  [ Chapter 10 ](text00013.html#chapter-10)
  
  [ Chapter 11 ](text00014.html#chapter-11)
  
  [ Chapter 12 ](text00015.html#chapter-12)
  
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