Book description
Two soldiers: Britain's most celebrated military hero and a broken
veteran living in the gutters of London. Their paths last crossed
nearly twenty years ago. Now, amidst a hostage crisis in the Middle
East, their lives are about to collide again. And the Strike Back is
about to begin.
John Porter was involved in a hostage raid in Lebanon in 1989. The
raid went disastrously wrong, several regiment men died, John spared
the life of a Lebanese fighter and blames himself for the deaths.
Struggling to come to terms with the past, John has hit the bottle and
is sleeping rough.
Colonel Peregrine Collinson was involved in the same raid. He was
awarded a Military Cross and is heralded as a military hero.
After the disastrous raid, their lives couldn't have been further
apart. Until now. A hostage crisis in the Middle East draws the
enemies back together for the first time. Who will be the hero this time?
Chris Ryan was born near Newcastle in 1961. He joined the SAS in
1984. During his ten years he was involved in overt and covert
operations and was also Sniper team commander of the anti-terrorist
team. During the Gulf War, Chris was the only member of an eight-man
team to escape from Iraq, of which three colleagues were killed and four
captured. It was the longest escape and evasion in the history of the
SAS. For this he was awarded the Military Medal. For his last two years
he was selecting and training potential recruits for the SAS.
