Walk With the Devil
Tom Foote
For the first time in his life, Robert Ryder doesn’t have orders. He just buried his son Mark. His career in the French Foreign Legion is finished. Unable to settle into civilian life he drifts to Thailand. There Ryder learns of a man on death row for dealing with the same drug lords responsible for Mark’s deadly overdose. But the drug smugglers find Ryder before he can find them. Kidnapped to Burma, Ryder escapes and realizes his mission. Facing the reality of a growing drug culture and the greed that fuels it, Ryder aims to make peace with his past by exacting retribution in the best way he knows, with the vengeance of a father wronged and the precise brutality of a Foreign Legionnaire. But the deeper he gets into the drugs world, the more familiar the faces become. This is globetrotting, hard-hitting action at its finest.
Tom Foote was born in Crosshaven, Co. Cork, Ireland, in 1935 and was educated in England and Ireland. In 1953, at the end of his formal education, he went to sea and served on a variety of merchant ships as a Radio Officer. This service took him around the world to many places that at that time were untouched by air travel. More recently he was employed by Digital Equipment Company in Ireland and Holland from where he took early retirement in order to devote his time to sailing and writing.
Praise for Walk With the Devil:
“Walk With the Devil is Tom Foote at the peak of his powers! Read it!” – Stuart Woods
“Walk With The Devil is a scintillating, fuel pumped thriller. A true in your face juggernaut of adrenaline, plotting and pace. Both a fascinating insider’s view of The Legion, and a deeply moving compassionate examination of loss. This is thriller writing of the highest order and Tom Foote is the new name to reach for. Foote rules on just every level there is!” -Ken Bruen
“An old-fashioned, no-holds-barred revenge story.” -Publishers Weekly
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