The conspiracy has survived Europe. Now it is waiting in the desert.
The trail that began in Bosnia and stretched through Germany and across the Atlantic has led Les Dawson somewhere he never expected to return to.
The Middle East.
From Saudi Arabia to Kuwait and Iraq, fragments of Night Shade begin appearing alongside old military records, intelligence reports and names connected to operations that should have ended decades ago.
But the desert keeps its secrets well.
As Les follows the evidence, he is drawn into a dangerous network involving retired officers, former intelligence personnel and people who have spent years ensuring the truth remains hidden. Among them are individuals whose loyalties are impossible to read — including those who may know exactly what happened during the earliest days of the conspiracy.
Then one name changes everything.
Sir Adrian Selkirk.
A man whose past may be far more closely connected to Colonel Sinclair than anyone realised.
With the help of new allies, including intelligence officer Captain Jayne Allbright and Royal Military Police veteran Angela Bright, Les begins uncovering links between the Gulf, Bosnia and the operation that has haunted him for more than thirty years.
But this time, the conspiracy is not simply trying to hide the past.
It is preparing for something.
Old enemies are moving again.
Records are disappearing.
People are being hunted.
And the closer Les gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that the final answers may lie back where everything first began.
Bosnia.
The Desert of Shadows is the fourth instalment of The Shadows Conspiracy Files — a military conspiracy thriller of buried operations, old loyalties, betrayal and unfinished business.
The shadows crossed the world.
Now they are leading Les back to the beginning.