Hidden Scorpion: Second Edition
About this eBook
Other foreign intelligence services want part of the action, some friendly and others, not so much. As the jockeying for position reaches fever pitch, Ben and his Embassy colleague Meg, become aware that the greatest threat to their operational cover, and their lives, comes from inside the system.
About the author
Warren Reed is a former Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) officer with a continuing keen interest in the geopolitics of globalisation, especially the burgeoning role of China and its increasingly close relationship with Russia. A regular media commentator on espionage and terrorism, Reed is often sought out to comment on the human side of spying.
Born in Tasmania, Reed undertook two years National Service in the Australian Army before completing a degree in Political Science and Business Administration from the University of Tasmania. In 1973, he was admitted to the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo as an Australia-Japan Business Cooperation Committee Scholar.
On his return to Australia, Reed consulted for a major Japanese trading house before being recruited by ASIS and trained by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in London. His ten-year career in clandestine work focused on Asia and the Middle East, and he has lived and worked in Tokyo, Cairo and New Delhi.
Reed left ASIS in 1987 and subsequently held the position of Chief Operating Officer for CEDA (Committee for Economic Development in Australia).
Fluent in written and spoken Japanese, Warren Reed’s other language studies include Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesia and Arabic.
