Book description
Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier... Chris Ryan Extreme Jinchun,
China. A city teeming with industry and paranoia. A deadly weapon fallen
into the wrong hands. And a terrorist mastermind who will stop at
nothing until the West is on its knees. John Bald is faced with a
mission tougher than anything he ever encountered in the SAS. In the
country of a billion people, Bald is a lone warrior. The odds are
stacked against him. So are the bullets. And that's just the way he
likes it.
'The books are masterpieces of social realism. [Chris Ryan] has lived
the virtual life he writes about - and that makes him the right kind
of war novelist for this generation. These storylines are dependent on
a bustle of verbs that lead in every instance to blood and explosions,
desperate screams and increasing levels of difficulty: it is never
long before we find things and people being zapped, fried, crunched,
toasted and skewered, as the bad deeds of the world are
comprehensively avenged'
Chris Ryan was born near Newcastle in 1961. He joined the SAS in
1984. During his ten years there he was involved in overt and covert
operations and was also sniper team commander of the anti-terrorist
team. During the Gulf War, Chris Ryan was the only member of an
eight-man unit to escape from Iraq, where 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. He
wrote about his experiences in the bestseller The One That Got Away,
which was adapted for screen and since then has written three other
works of non-fiction, fourteen bestselling novels and a series of
childrens' books. He lectures in business motivation and security, and
is a consultant for a security organisation.
