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Author
Publisher
Blink Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Ex-Special Forces' soldier and host of SAS: Who Dares Wins, Ollie Ollerton narrates his incredible story for the first time. Where is your break point? Is it here? Facing the gruelling SAS selection process on one leg, with a busted ankle and the finish line nowhere in sight? Or here? Under heavy fire from armed kidnappers while protecting journalists en route to Baghdad. Or, is it here? At the bottom of a bottle, with a family in pieces, unable to...
Author
Description
Gary Baldwin is a watcher, not a killer. Operating with a special forces unit deep in Syria, he is to sit in a hide, observe a village, report back and leave. But the appalling atrocity he witnesses will change his life forever. Before long, he is living as a handyman on the Orkney islands. 'Knacker' is one of the last old-school operators at the modern MI6 fortress on the Thames. When news reaches Knacker that the Russian officer responsible for...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Description
The rules are strict and they make sure you learn the hard way, pushing you beyond the limits of what is physically possible. There is no mercy. Even when you are bleeding and broken, to admit defeat is failure. To survive the gruelling selection process to become a member of the Special Forces you need toughness, aggression, meticulous attention to detail and unrelenting self-discipline. But it is as much a test of your mind as a test of your body....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is rightly celebrated across the globe for his many extraordinary achievements in polar exploration. What many do not know is prior to undertaking a career surviving whatever the elements can throw at him, his life and the drive within him to succeed, was influenced and shaped by the military. His father was a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Scot's Greys and killed during the Second World War leading his unit into action in Italy....
5) X Platoon
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2015
Description
For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known variously as the Shadow Wing, the Black Unit or X Platoon. Officially there was no X Platoon. The sixty men in its elite number were culled from units across the Armed Forces, at which point they simply ceased to exist. X Platoon had no budget, no weaponry, no vehicles and no kit - apart from what its men could beg, borrow or steal from other military...
6) War hawk
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Tucker Wayne's past and his present collide when a former army colleague comes to him for help. She's on the run from brutal assassins hunting her and her son. To keep them safe, Tucker must discover who killed a brilliant young idealist - a crime that leads back to the most powerful figures in the U.S. government. From the haunted ruins of a plantation in the deep South to the beachheads of a savage civil war in Trinidad, Tucker and Kane must discover...
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2017
Description
To save mankind's future, the members of Sigma Force must make a devil's bargain as they join forces with their most hated enemy to stop an ancient threat in this gripping adventure from James Rollins. Off the coast of Brazil, a team of scientists discovers a horror like no other, an island where all life has been eradicated, consumed and possessed by a species beyond imagination. Before they can report their discovery, a mysterious agency attacks...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Special Forces training is no walk in the park. The rules are strict and they make sure you learn the hard way, pushing you beyond the limits of what is physically possible. There is no mercy. Even when you are bleeding and broken, to admit defeat is failure.
Author
Series
Ben Hope volume 27
Pub. Date
2023
Description
When a devastating attack on billionaire Auguste Kaprisky leaves the old man clinging to life, a trail of bodies and no clues, his last surviving relative calls the only person she can trust to step up. With precious few leads, ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope must first switch from action hero to detective in order to unravel the mystery. His international quest soon attracts the attention of the faceless plotters, who swiftly make Ben their target. As Ben...
10) The Judas strain
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Buried deep within a jungle, ancient ruins conceal a deadly secret. Buried in a tomb in Venice, an explorer hides a truth that could shatter history. Buried in our genetic code, a mystery like no other. This is a thriller from the author of 'Map of Bones'.
11) The fear bubble
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Without fear, there?s no challenge. Without challenge, there?s no growth. Without growth, there?s no life.Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he confronted fear on a daily basis, never knowing what lay behind the next corner, or the next closed door. In prison, he was thrust into the unknown, cut off from friends and family, isolated with thoughts of failure and dread for his future. And at the top of Everest,...
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
This is not a straightforward memoir. Instead, it is a book that distills the processes and tactics Anthony 'Staz' Stazicker gathered throughout his career in the Special Forces - gunfights, door-kicking operations, and against-the-odds escape - and how these hard lessons informed his later successes with multi-million pound start-up clothing company ThruDark. It provides a mission plan for how the intelligence Staz gathered can bring next-level results...
Author
Publisher
Cerberus
Pub. Date
2002
Description
In this work, John Warwicker presents an amazing amount of information on what is still considered 'top secret' and this together with personal accounts from those involved has provided the most complete history, as yet, of clandestine activities during Britain's darkest hours.
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In the mid-1970s, plane hijacks were an almost weekly occurrence. Palestinian and pro-Palestinian terrorists targeted Western airlines, and it seemed as if the world's security forces were powerless to stop them. On the afternoon of 27 June 1976, a scheduled Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by German and Palestinian terrorists and flown to Entebbe in Uganda, ruled by one of Africa's bloodiest and most unpredictable tyrants, Idi...
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Series
Ben Hope volume 29
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Has ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope finally got out of his depth? That's the question Ben faces when the hunt for a missing girl takes him to China. He's a stranger in a strange land - but he's also the victim's only hope. To make things worse, she's almost family. As the pressure mounts, so does the gruesome death toll. With ruthless enemies in pursuit and an unlikely alliance with an enigmatic detective his only lifeline, Ben realises that this situation...
16) Fire strike 7/9
Author
Publisher
Ebury
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Meet Sergeant 'Boomer' Grahame. He's just an ordinary squaddie but on the battlefield he wields more power than any other soldier. 'Fire Strike 7/9' tells the story of Boomer and his five-man fire support team on their tour of Afghanistan.
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.