Book description
SAS Sergeant Geordie Sharp is required to undertake two top-secret
missions, in the full knowledge that, if things go wrong, the
authorities will deny all involvement. In the first mission he is to
serve as a commander of a hit team on a Black, or 100 per cent
non-attributable operation assigned to the SAW, the Regiment's
ultra-secret Subversive Action Wing. His target is an Iraqi who
defected to Libya after the Gulf War. The aim is to kill him and leave
no clue to the identity or origin of the assassins. Returning to base,
Sharp finds he must also carry out a high-level political
assassination on mainland Britain. If he fails, his four-year-old son
will die at the hands of the IRA. Trapped between opposing forces in a
fight to the death, he twists and turns through a maze of nightmare
options, desperately seeking some way of averting tragedy. Who will be
hit the hardest - Geordie Sharp or the British government?
Another non-stop pulse-pounding thriller from the established master
of the military fiction genre.
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. His work in security takes him around the
world.
