Brand on the Rocks: Private Lies of Privatized Spies (#27?)

Twenty years after being swept out of MI6 in a feminist upheaval, James Brand, clandestine agent, spy and assassin, bottoms out. Reckless drinking, womanizing, and gambling have left him broke, alone and suffering from crisis-stage alcoholism. However, his skills still fetch a high premium in the lucrative and murky world of government-contracted private espionage. He is dispatched to Saddam Hussein's Baghdad to abduct a Russian physicist and salvage an American aerospace corporation's investment in a high-level missile defense system. The mission does not go smoothly.