HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT  YOUR COUNTRY?

A High Octane Thriller

John Devereaux, an SAS Warrant Officer, is seconded to the
Australian Secret Intelligence Service and handed a mission that
will test him to his very core – both professionally and personally.
The operationally deniable mission: infiltrate into Cambodia via
parachute in the dead of night and assassinate two high-value
targets, alone, and with two dozen enemy soldiers in his way.
From the relentless jungles of Cambodia to the chaotic civilian-filled streets of Sydney and Bangkok, to the secretive dens of
Moscow and the extravagant French Riviera, explosive SAS and
ASIS action uncovers a shadowy and powerful organisation that
brings us face to face with the Russian Mafia, and an assassin
getting intimate.
Unbeknown to Devereaux, the Director-General of the Secret
Intelligence Service, Magnus Webb, is testing him for a far
more important role – to head an off-the-books clandestine cell
buried deep inside this secret organisation and known only as
MANTRA-6.
Devereaux’s mission has only just begun …

THE EFFORTS OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE WANTING TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD TO ADDRESS THE DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY ORGANISED CRIME.

A really enjoyable and easy read. Loads of action from start to end keeping the reader wanting more.
The writer manages to keep the readers attention and imagination captured.

Although fiction, the book highlights the issues and problems faced in the real world by governments and security agencies all over the world to counter and address organised crime. Focusing on these issues faced everyday, makes the story believable and the reader want to cheer Devereaux and Mortimer Acquisitions on in their fight.
The writer also manages to make the characters realistic by highlighting strengths and weaknesses as people would typically experience in the real world. But it never gets overly emotional and there can be no doubt that action is the crux of the book.

And a nice change from the 'normal' American or British heroes that one would find in similar action books.

A most enjoyable book with the closing chapter leaving the reader with a desire for more. Well worth reading.
Well done Mr Hutchings, a great book! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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SACH

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT BOOK IN THE SERIES !!

Thrillers, especially spy stories are not normally the genre I read, but when I was handed this book and opened the first page I was initially intrigued. As I turned the pages I became totally engrossed in the story and the development of the characters and how they interacted.

I'm amazed at the insight into the SAS and the world of spies... the author really takes you on a journey into this  shadowy world... I felt like I was there with Devereaux....  I loved this book.

I understand it is a series... if so, I cant wait to read the next book in the series.

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Hannah

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LOOK OUT JASON BOURNE

Mantra-6 Brimstone  is a wild ride. This book kept me turning the pages with just the right amount of action and suspense. I really liked the main character John Devereaux, he was flawed, but highly lethal and focused. What I liked most was that he was portrayed as a normal looking guy - an average man with exceptional skills... NOT a super hero or super spy - that was very refreshing.

Finally there is a fiction book written about the Australian SAS  and one written by someone who was actually in the SAS. I guess that's why it seemed so authentic.

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Refreshing!!!  I definitely recommend 'Brimstone'

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Dale Sinclair

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AN  AMAZING  NOVEL

Ken Murray rated MANTRA-6 'BRIMSTONE' 5 Stars.

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Russel Hutchings does an amazing  job of weaving you through multiple characters during a suspense-filled thriller, "Mantra-6 Brimstone". I felt like I really knew his main character, Devereaux, or at least knew someone just like him after only reading the first chapter or two. Hutching's work opens with a high-altitude parachute jump (at night) into the jungle that he tells with such amazing detail and descriptors--I was hooked from the start! He really aids the reader by explaining away all of the Special Operations acronyms which sometimes have the tendency to bog a book down--simply not the case with Mantra-6 Brimstone. I highly recommend this work for all readers who enjoy a good page-turning thriller that you won't be able to put down, just like me.

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Ken Murray