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Despatches from the secret world behind the headlines. Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his seventeenth novel, filled with his trademark action, thrills and inside knowledge. Osama Bin Laden is dead. The President of the United States knows it. The world knows it. And SAS hero Joe Mansfield knows it. He was on the ground in Pakistan when it happened. He saw Seal Team 6 go in, and he saw them extract with their grisly cargo.

It is 2003. Invalided out of the SAS, Chet Freeman makes his living in high-end security, on a temporary contract for an American corporation called the Grosvenor Group. He catches a young woman, a peace campaigner, eavesdropping on a meeting the Group is holding with the British prime minister. The Group's interests include arms manufacture, and what Chet and the young woman overhear seems to imply that it is bribing the prime minister to take his country into an illegal war. Could this possibly be true?

The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly - or more cunning. And if they enter the Taliban's kill zone, they know just what to expect... When three deadly Stinger missiles go missing in Helmand Province, the...

Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan that's being mined there. They soon realise that the people living in the village near the mine are frightened and it doesn't take long for Ben and his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill, and no one seems to be doing anything to help.

It begins as a school trip to London. But with a sudden tidal surge and a dramatic thunderstorm that hurls rainwater down on the capital, it suddenly becomes something totally different: the site of a major disaster as the Thames Barrier is breached and London is flooded. With streets underwater, communications down, rats pouring up out of the sewers, and thousands of people in a state of panic, survival becomes a very key issue for Ben and his mates.

Sent om aftenen den 24. januar 1991 befinder de otte engelske elitesoldater sig langt inde på irakisk territorium. Deres opgave er at sabotere irakernes kommunikationslinjer og finde og destruere deres mobile Scud-missilramper. Det var tanken om sin familie, der holdt den engelske SAS-soldat Chris Ryan i live, da han pludselig måtte klare sig på egen hånd i den irakiske ørken - fjendens territorium - under Golfkrigen.

Den britiske efterretningstjeneste beder Matt Browning om at eliminere en fabrik i Østeuropa, der ulovligt fremstiller billig kopimedicin og bliver styret af en flok gangstere. Arbejdsgiveren er en multinational medicinalvirksomhed som viser sig at have solgt et middel, som skal fremme soldaters frygtløshed før et angreb. Men midlet har den bivirkning, at soldaterne efter 4 år bliver ramt af et morderisk vanvid og dræber uskyldige, inden de begår selvmord. Og nu er Styrke Syv i gang med at aflive alle de soldater, som har indtaget dette middel.

Nick Scott er tidligere SAS-soldat. Han var med i den første golfkrig, men blev fanget og tortureret og er nu en nedbrudt mand. Sarahs kæreste, Jed Bradley, er en af SAS's sejeste unge agenter. Fanget i en global magtkamp må Nick og Jed kæmpe sig vej gennem det krigshærgede Irak, mens Saddam Husseins regime kollapser omkring dem, i et desperat kapløb for at finde den kvinde, de begge elsker, og for at afsløre hemmeligheden om Det Ultimative Våben.

Matt Browning er lige trådt ud af SAS og har store økonomiske problemer. Men løsningen på hans finansielle problemer kommer, da han får tilbudt opgaven om at samle et team af tidligere SAS-soldater, som skal opsnappe en al-Qaeda transport af diamanter og guld på vej over middelhavet. Sammenholdet blandt deltagerne bliver sat på prøve fra starten, da en af dem bliver udsat for et attentat. Kuppet bliver gennemført, men kort efter begynder drabene. To af deltagerne bliver udryddet - den ene med hele sin familie. Og Matt ved, at han er den næste på listen ...

Will Jackson, SAS-soldat med operationer i Afghanistan, Irak, Sudan og Pakistan, går helt i hundene, da han mister sin kone og datter i et bombeattentat, og forlader efterfølgende regimentet som en slagen mand. To år senere bliver han hyret af MI5 og CIA til at opspore Faisal Ahmed, manden der stod bag terrorangrebet. Planen er, at Will med et hold SAS-drenge skal til Afghanistan og befri Faisals søster, der holdes som gidsel af Taliban. Derefter skal hun bruges til at lokke Faisal ud fra sit gemmested.

En ukendt morder myrder officerer fra MI5. SAS-kaptajnen Alex Temple bliver sat på sagen, og han finder frem til, at morderen er en tidligere agent med kodenavnet Vagtmanden, og en mareridtsagtig forfølgelse begynder. Chris Ryan er et pseudonym for en tidligere soldat inden for de britiske specialstyrker. Han blev kendt for at være den eneste ud af ottemands-holdet Bravo Two Zero, der undgik tilfangetagning i Irak under den første golfkrig.

As a scientist, Sherlock Holmes would have certainly been familiar with the famous dictum attributed to Aristotle: Nature abhors a vacuum. In that same vein, fans of the Great Detective must look at 1885 and 1886 and see a somewhat similar void. Conan Doyle set no cases during those years; in fact, if you believe Doyle, Holmes and Watson remained inactive for a period of some 30 months.

Eleven spellbinding tales of transformation, survival, and grit from the creators of the New York Times bestselling original audiobook MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls. In MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses, a collection of outdoorsmen share...

The fourth book in Chris Ryan's Extreme series. The Chris Ryan Extreme books take you even further into the heart of the mission with more extreme action, more extreme language and more extreme pace. Like Call of Duty or Medal of Honour you'll feel part of the team. Chris Ryan Extreme: Silent Kill has previously been published as four separate shorter missions. Now in one book to keep you at the heart of the action. Northern Ireland, 1993. For high-flying MI5 officer Avery Chance the real war has only just begun.

In Paris, an elderly man is assassinated as he takes his morning walk. In the war-torn cities of Syria, government forces wage a bloody war against their own people. The Russians are propping up the government, the French are backing one rebel fraction and the British are backing another. And in...

Having walked into the middle of the real reason the Hen Harriers are being shot down, Ben and Annie are captured as intruders and taken to a secure unit on a deserted area of the camp. These birds are just helpless victims in a much bigger operation - they attract too many visitors to the area and there's a top-secret piece of warfare technology being developed that needs to be kept quiet. If this weapon gets into the wrong hands it could have catastrophic worldwide effects.

As world leaders gather and a student demo gathers pace, a small flame takes hold - and suddenly an unquenchable fire bursts into life and an inferno of flames up to l00 metres high tears through the streets, threatening homes and lives. And in the smoke and confusion, an important general is kidnapped!

The first in an exciting new series for children from ex-SAS officer and best-selling adult author Chris Ryan. Five kids: Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex and Amber, are marooned on a desert island where they must face the ultimate test: survival! Killer komodo dragons, sharks, and modern day pirates are amongst the dangers they face. Can the five bond as a team, and stay alive? New to audio, this gripping story is read by Adrian Lester, best-known for his role in Spooks on TV.

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Complete and unabridged. From the author of the bestselling Danny Black series and the hit TV show Strikeback. Despatches from the secret world behind the headlines. Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his seventeenth novel, filled with his trademark action, thrills and inside knowledge...