- 2008
- year of publication
- 384
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- arrow
- ISBN-13
- 978-00-9946-013-8
- EAN
- 9780099460138
- Publication date
- 2008-05-01
- Book
- Zero Option · 1 edition
Another non-stop, pulse-pounding thriller from the established master of the military fiction genre, multi-million copy bestseller Chris Ryan . Fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather will not be disappointed... 'Slick, polished and gut-wrenching stuff' -- Irish Times 'Real strength in detailing the nitty-gritty of operations' -- Sunday Times 'Remarkable ... gripping' -- The Daily Express 'Both thumbs up!' -- ***** Reader review 'Has you hooked from the first to the last page' -- ***** Reader review 'Once you start you won't want to put down ...' -- ***** Reader review 'Best covert / military thriller I've read for years' -- ***** Reader review 'Unmissable' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************************* ASSASSINATE THE PRIME MINISTER... OR YOUR SON DIES SAS Sergeant Geordie Sharp is required to undertake two top-secret missions, in the full knowledge that, if things go wrong, the authorities will deny all involvement. In the first mission he is to serve as a commander of a hit team on a Black , or an 100% non-attributable operation assigned to the SAW , the Regiment's ultra-secret Subversive Action Wing . His target is an Iraqi who defected to Libya after the Gulf War . The aim is to kill him and leave no clue to the identity or origin of the assassins. Returning to base, Sharp finds he must also carry out a high-level political assassination on mainland Britain . If he fails, his four-year-old son will die at the hands of the IRA . Trapped between opposing forces in a fight to the death, he twists and turns through a maze of nightmare options, desperately seeking some way of averting tragedy. Who will be hit the hardest - Geordie Sharp or the British government?
