TY - BOOK AU - Magson,Adrian TI - Close quarters T2 - The Marc Portman thrillers SN - 9780727870674 (hbk) U1 - 823.92 23 KW - United States KW - Central Intelligence Agency KW - Fiction KW - Ukraine KW - Foreign relations KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Spy stories KW - Large type books N2 - The return of The Watchman - deep cover specialist Marc Portman Close protection specialist Marc Portman is used to finding himself in hostile situations. But none can be more unpredictable than troubled Ukraine, teetering on the brink of civil war. When a US State Department official on a fact-finding mission to Ukraine is placed under house arrest, the CIA hire Portman (codename: Watchman) to get him safely out of the country. In that dangerous and volatile region, Portman will find himself up against local gangsters, Ukrainian Special Forces, professional snipers, pro-Russian separatists and power-crazed cops. What he cannot know however is that his most lethal enemy comes from his own side ER -