The Service: Warlock — Angus McLean

144 civilians were slaughtered when a Serbian unit wiped out their village 20 years ago, in a dirty war where brutality was the norm.

The Serb commander of the dreaded Red Wolves escaped from The Hague and has been hunted ever since. Now a single slip of the tongue has set off alarm bells. Could Josef Durakovic, wanted war criminal, really be hiding out in Auckland?

Charlie Nickals of the Security Intelligence Service is handed the reins for his first big op, and with promotion on the cards, the pressure is on to pull off a major coup. With unwanted assistance from Special Forces, and utilising all their skills at covert surveillance, Charlie leads a small team of spies to recapture one of the most wanted mass murderers on the globe.

Charlie knows that if a monster is living among the innocent, then he needs to be fast, accurate and ruthless. One wrong step and blood will be spilled. He can't afford to screw this up, or more innocents will die.

The SIS team have one focus-identify and neutralise war criminal Josef Durakovic.

Code name: Warlock.