Book description
Never has there been a more graphic account of the SAS in action,
never a thriller so authentically grounded in the twists and turns of
undercover warfare.
Geordie Sharp, a sergeant in the SAS, is struggling to pick up the
threads of his army career. Wounded in the Gulf War, he returns to
Hereford to find his home life in tatters. As he trains with Northern
Ireland Troop, a murder in his family fires him with personal hatred
of the IRA. Posted to Belfast, he discovers that his adversary is
Declan Farrell, a leading player in the Provisional IRA. Sharp sets
out to stalk and kill his man.
Relentlessly exciting and completely unoutdownable, Chris Ryan's
Stand By, Stand By is as exciting as the military thriller
can be.
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Chris Ryan was born in 1961 in a village near Newcastle. In 1984 he
joined the SAS. During his ten years in the Regiment , 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. During
Ryan's last two years in the Regiment he selected and trained potential
SAS recruits, he left the SAS in 1994 and is now the author of many
bestselling thrillers for adults, as well as the
Alpha Force
and
Code Red
series for younger readers.
