Two soldiers: one a celebrated military hero and the other 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. Unbeknownst to his colleagues, it was Peregrine's fault that the mission went wrong. He was awarded a Military Cross and is heralded as a military hero for something he didn't do. After the disastrous raid, the lives of the two men couldn't have been further apa
Spændingsroman om agenten fra det engelske elitekorps SAS Nick Stone, der ikke alene fanges mellem SAS og IRA i USA, men også mellem professionel følelseskulde og medfølelse, da han tager ansvar for en lille pige Forlag: Corgi Books Udgivelsesår: 1998 Sider: 506 Sprog: Engelsk
Nick Stones fremtid har aldrig set mere sort ud. Hans plejedatter er blevet slået ihjel, og han kan ikke se nogen god grund til ikke at følge hende i døden. Men så bliver han kontaktet af en mand, som han reddede 10 år tidligere. Fotografen Jerry vil have Nick til at hjælpe sig med at opspore en muslimsk leder. Nu går turen til det besatte og sønderskudte Bagdad, hvor de udsættes for et attentatforsøg og må flygte til Bosnien. Her kommer Nick og Jerry i kontakt med den mand, de søger. For sent indser Nick, at han er blevet brugt som lokkemad... Type: Hardcover
(Nick Stone Thriller 19) 'Like the best action films in book form' FHM Nick Stone is back in London but if he thought he was home for a break, he's very, very wrong. Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone strikes a devil's bargain. In exchange for his own safety - a life for a life - Stone is charged with locating someone who doesn't want to be found, currently hiding out in the one of the remotest corners of the UK. And for the first time in a long time, he's not operating alone. But Stone and his team don't find just anyone. They find a world-class hacker, so good that her work might threaten the stability of the western world as we know it. These are dangerous waters and Stone is quickly in over his head. Before he finally knows which way to turn, the choice is ripped out of his hands. Most people might think of home as safety but Nick
Nick Stone bliver jaget af ukendte gerningsmænd, og det har forbindelse til en aktion mod IRA i 1987. Jagten på jægerne fører ham bl.a. til Libyen Titel: Brutal magt Sammendrag: LIBYEN 1987: Nick Stone overvåger et skib, som Firmaet har mistænkt for at smuggle våben til IRA. Da det lykkedes Nick at komme om bord, bliver han opdaget af IRA's skrappeste bombemager. Nick når lige at dræbe ham, inden skibet bordes af kystvagter. IRLAND 2007: Efter en række mystiske hændelser går det op for Nick, at nogen er begyndt at udrydde de personer, der var med i aktionen i Libyen 20 år tidligere. Det seneste offer er blevet brutalt tortureret og skudt gennem hovedet, og nu står Nick for tur ... Type: Hardcover
Matt Browning, eks-elitesoldat, bliver tvunget til at påtage sig en sidste operation, udslettelsen af en østeuropæisk medicinalfabrik, der fremstiller ulovlig kopimedicin. Operationen gennemføres, men hvad er det, der får tilsyneladende normale eks-soldater til pludselig at gå amok og dræbe vildt omkring sig inden selvmord. Er der forbindelse til fabrikken, og hvem har sat det hele i gang? Forfatter: Chris Ryan (f. 1961) Forlag: Aschehoug Udgivelsesår: 2006 Sider: 319 Sprog: Dansk
Softcover book. Published by Penguin Random House (1997). Forlag: Arrow Books
The mission is classified . . . and illegal In the blistering heat of the Sudan, the CIA has gone rogue. On the trail of a notorious terrorist, Agency operatives have overstepped their sanctioned boundaries. And now the ultimate weapon has fallen into the wrong hands. As Danny Freah and his spec-ops team scramble to recover a top secret aircraft that has crashed in Africa, Whiplash Director Jonathon Reid finds himself mysteriously shut off from information about the robot drone and its mission. Maneuvering through the twisted back corridors of the CIA and Washington’s power elite, Reid discovers secrets both illegal and highly dangerous—a virtually unstoppable assassin and an out-of-control clique within the Agency. Torn between loyalty and conscience, Reid must find a way to alert the President and avert a national disaster. But with the Whiplash team caught in the chaos of a brutal Afr
