MEANTIME, G HAD BEEN cooling his heels at Newark International. He checked his time: another three hours before the next plane takes off for Heathrow. So far, he had sped read through two books, both autobiographical accounts of former SAS men. When he finished Andy McNab’s book, ‘Immediate Action’, he was convinced Aussie Bryce would be just as mad as his UK counterpart. He thought that if he must go on an undercover assignment, he’d much rather an ex-SAS have his back.
He also brushed up on Morocco with a non-fiction tome. His conclusion: It’s a hotbed. The nerd in him filed away some important modern historical events.
In February 2003, a Casablanca court jailed three Saudi members of al-Qaeda for ten years after they were accused of plotting an attack on US and British warships in th
