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8) Outcast
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2022
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Description
In Burkina Faso, SAS Warrant Officer and Regiment misfit Jamie 'Geordie' Carver is seeing out the last days of his career on a dead-end training job. Never a team player, Carver is paying the price for earning the lifelong enmity of his jealous Whitehall superiors. So when he's recalled to Hereford after helping to thwart a deadly terrorist attack at a luxury hotel, Carver expects another stern dressing down from the top brass. Instead, he's entrusted...
11) Masters of war
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2013
Description
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 north Africa, young SAS trooper Jamie Truman is coming to the end of a gruelling tour of duty, or so he thinks.
12) Hunter killer
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Following a suicide bombing in central London, series SAS hero Danny Black is recruited to be part of an assassination squad, directed by a joint MI5/MI6/CIA committee and tasked with hunting down and killing the terrorist cells believed to be planning further atrocities. Early leads take them to a North London mosque and a one-armed hate cleric, whom the Home Secretary repeatedly tries and fails to expel from the country, a sleazy Saudi prince living...
14) Still standing
Author
Pub. Date
2023
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Description
The SAS are used to deaths during combat - it goes with the turf. But when one of their own is said to have committed suicide in Thailand, red flags are raised. Pete Green wasn't the sort of soldier who would ever take his own life - and no one is more sure of that than his twin brother, Billy. Billy is determined to find out what really happened. But if he is going to find out the truth he'll need help - the sort of help only SAS Sergeant Matt Standing...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Around 24-25th November 2001, in the biggest and most destructive mission in SAS recent history, half of the world's most elite regiment took on the Al Qaeda's crack forces in Afghanistan. The target was a local command centre in Kandahar province. This is the soldiers' account of that battle.
16) Shadow kill
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Strikeback hero John Porter is here united with SAS antihero John Bald on a mission to Africa. They are sent to Sierra Leone to track down a British man, a former major in the regiment and advisor to the president, who has has gone missing - and there's a dead Russian in his flat. What seems at first to be a battle to control Sierra Leone's diamond mines will turn out to about a much greater evil - and with a trail that leads back to both Westminster...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When British and American forces invaded Iraq in April 2003, their intelligence operations got to work looking for the WMD their governments had promised us were there. They quickly realized no such weapons existed. This book tells the story of what happened next.
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A history book that reads like a novel, 'Stirling's Men' investigates the story of the SAS from its creation by David Stirling to the last battles of World War 2. This account was officially supported by veterans and is based on their unique first-hand testimony.