An Elephant on Your Nose

Warren Reed

The story of a multi-national intelligence agency operation to thwart a home-grown terror threat in the lead up to Tokyo’s Olympic games.

British Intelligence operative Isabella Di Stefano Butterfield has been dispatched to Tokyo for a very special purpose.

Until recently, Japan seemed immune to the
Islamic-inspired terror attacks that swept the world after 9/11. But the 2015 beheading of two Japanese aid workers in Syria changed everything. As the Tokyo Olympics approach, the race is on to establish a viable, outward-looking Japanese intelligence agency. Bella’s brief is to ensure this spy service is fashioned in the image of M16.

But before discussions even commence, Japan receives disturbing intelligence about a home-grown terror plot from an unlikely source – China. Bella is thrown headlong into a complex, multinational espionage operation, forcing her to walk a trip-wire of hidden agendas that sorely test her professional and personal loyalties.

Warren Reed's 'An Elephant on Your Nose' is a brisk-paced, absorbing novel that also conveys larger truths about the new power game in Asia. I read it straight through.

- Jim Fallows, correspondent for The Atlantic

Phone contact: (61) 413 438 838

Release: Nov-2018

ISBN: 9780648283973

RRP (AUD): $24.99

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback & ebook

Category: Spy thriller based in Japan

Warren Reed

Warren Reed is an MI6-trained, former Australian Secret Intelligence Service officer. During his 10yr ASIS career he worked in Tokyo, Cairo and New Delhi. A frequent media commentator on intelligence gathering and terrorism, Reed is often asked about the human side of spying.