The Scorpion and the Lotus

By Harry P Russell

In the early 1970s, an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) analyst, Zander Ryan, helps unravel a political and intelligence conspiracy to destroy ASIO. A CIA warning fails to prevent the new Labor Attorney-General raiding ASIO in March 1973. Then a public harassment campaign threatens further damage.

Zander sets about exposing the campaign's ringleaders and uncovering a web of KGB moles in ASIO's Melbourne and Sydney offices, in the process barely escaping with his life. Four years later, a different threat emerges as Zander strives to dismantle an Ananda Marga assassination attempt on a visiting Indian Prime Minister in Sydney.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09M7MJ29L
• ISBN13: 9798771131573
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"