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3) Storm front
Author
Language
English
Description
This title explores how, in 1970, a communist rebellion in the south of Oman threatened not only the stability of the Arabian Peninsula but more importantly the vital oil routes through the Persian Gulf. Within six months, the SAS arrived to lead a fierce secret war against the rebels.
4) Osama
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Osama Bin Laden is dead. SAS hero Joe Mansfield was on the ground in Pakistan when it happened. But now somebody wants Joe dead, and they're willing to do anything to make it happen. His family is targeted, his reputation destroyed. His only chance is to find out what happened in Bin Laden's compound the night the Americans went in.
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Language
English
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. A trail of clues takes Danny to a training camp in the Yemen, but just as he has the enemy in his sights, he discovers that they are somehow one step ahead of him.
6) Firefight
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Former SAS Captain Will Jackson is a man with nothing to lose. His life was torn apart the day a terrorist attack killed his family. Now he leads a life of grief-stricken obscurity, until he is asked to take on a mission in Afghanistan. As events unfold, Will discovers that somebody is playing a deadly game with him.
Author
Publisher
Headline
Language
English
Description
'Special Ops Heroes' tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other special forces medals - the largest of its kind in the world. The stories span some 60 years from the exploits of the newly-formed SAS early in the Second World War to the end of the 20th-century.
Author
Publisher
Helion
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
As the events of the Second World War fade into the distance it is important that the activities of a small band of brothers are not overlooked. In the dark days following Dunkirk in 1940 these men volunteered for what was euphemistically termed 'Special Service'.
Author
Publisher
Red Fox
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chris Ryan reveals for the first time the true aim of the Bravo Two Zero mission. He reveals, too, how inept their briefing was, and how inadequate and faulty their maps and equipment were. But this only makes this story of heroism even more remarkable.
12) Shadow kill
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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...
13) Direct action
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a US Embassy in Southeast Asia is bombed by followers of terrorist Osama bin Laden, the United States and the United Kingdom decide it is time to act against the terrorist leader by striking at his stronghold in Afghanistan.
14) Ultimate weapon
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Nick Scott's daughter is a scientist who has cracked one of the scientific secrets of the age. Now she has vanished. Her lover, Jed Bradley, is one of SAS's toughest young agents. Caught in a global power play, Nick and Jed find themselves in a desperate race to find the woman they both love and to unlock the secret of the Ultimate Weapon.
15) Masters of war
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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.
16) Hellfire
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Language
English
Description
On the Syria/Iraq border a British hostage is beheaded by IS terrorists. The executioner is a young British extremist. A masked figure watches him. This mysterious person is treated with a mixture of respect and terror. They call him the Caliph. In Nigeria the British High Commisioner and his young aide are kidnapped. A four-person SAS team, including Regiment hero Danny Black, is deployed to find him. The team find devastation in Nigeria, and when...
17) Warlord
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Danny Black leads an SAS squad on loan to the CIA and sent to the Mexican border. The old Columbian drug gangs are being driven out by New Mexican gangs and their crack killing teams, called the Zitas. This is leading to a new, unprecedented flood of heroin engulfing southern American states. Danny's squad is to take the war to the Zitas, who have received special forces training, and to assassinate their mysterious leader. Danny's younger brother...
18) Blood money
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Boat Troop are sent upriver into Sierra Leone on a mission to secure a vital ore mine. While the men battle their way past vicious hippos and poisonous snakes, political events are rapidly overtaking the city-based HQ. As the balance of power swings between government and rebels, HMG wavers in its intentions. Soon after Boat Troop arrive at the mine, they discover they are out on their own and with the extra burden of civilians to hamper their task....
Author
Publisher
Abacus
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Iraq, 2003: British and American forces confront an insurgency of devastating complexity. Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a war. Major-General Stan McChrystal devised a campaign fusing special forces, aircraft, and the latest surveillance technology with the aim of taking down the enemy before it could regenerate.
Author
Publisher
The Robson Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
This is a book about a clash between very different worlds: the British Army and Britain's Muslim community. It follows a young girl's extraordinary journey from working in the family kebab shop in Manchester to a London barracks where the Colonel of 21 SAS unit is putting women through selection training with the men. Lacking military experience, physically slight and, as a Muslim, socially isolated, Alisha is plunged into the ordeal with 11 other...
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