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Forged in Shadow
Paperback
Series: Harry O'Connor Thrillers
ISBN13: 9781764841405
Publisher: Parabellum Press
Published: Nov 27 2026
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
What happens when a King's Counsel turns his legal and geopolitical expertise to the world of political thrillers?
Most thrillers explore what happens when an assassin enters the world. Liam Kelly explores how someone becomes one in Book One of this sophisticated political thriller series.
Every assassin has a beginning. This is Harry O'Connor's.
He was raised to protect.
Trained to survive.
When danger closes in, Harry O'Connor must choose: become his father's creation or forge his own path.
Smart. Athletic. Reserved. Harry O'Connor appears to be an ordinary young man finishing high school on Australia's quiet Northern New South Wales coast.
He is anything but.
After his mother's death, Harry is raised by his father Reece, a former SAS soldier turned mercenary, shaped by guilt, love, rigid discipline and a war that never ends. Growing up among men who carry out missions governments will never acknowledge, Harry knows what his father is, even if no one says it aloud.
Then a devastating terrorist attack in Tel Aviv changes everything. Forced to move to the United States with Reece and his band of mercenaries, Harry must decide once and for all who he will become ... as the violence he has been trained for closes in.
From Australian King's Counsel barrister Liam Kelly, this sophisticated political thriller draws on legal and geopolitical insight. In the vein of Mark Greaney and Vince Flynn, the explosive first instalment in the Harry O'Connor series tells the story of how an assassin is made.
**This is a work of fiction. The views expressed by individual characters are their own and should not be taken as a statement of the author's personal political views or beliefs.**
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