The Operators of 14 Company are Britain's most effective weapon against international terrorism. The selection process is one of the most physically, intellectually and emotionally demanding in the world. This is the story of some of the most hair-raising military operations ever conducted in Britain.

Following the killing of Osama bin Laden, polls showed that Americans were more anxious about terrorism than they were before his death. The new front in the War on Terror is the 'homegrown enemy', domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States, the UK, and across Europe. Based on several years of research and reportage from Dallas to Dewsbury, this text presents...