Zero 22: Danny Black Thriller 8

A young boy is kidnapped in a remote part of the UK.

A man, recently released from Guantanamo Bay, is sent on an all-expenses-paid family holiday to Disneyworld.

An SAS extraction mission of to rescue Kurdish fighters in northern Syria goes awry.

Danny Black is the only survivor.

Angry and desperate to avenge the massacre, Danny is informed that their failure was no accident - there is a spy in place.

Danny is sent after the popular and decorated American General O'Brien, a man wanted by both the CIA and MI6 for his evidenced colluding with the Russians. He is not alone: joined by the notorious assassin Bethany White they are forced to work together to bring down General O'Brien before he jeopardizes a peace treaty between the Turks and the Kurds, or worse. Danny and Bethany travel to Jordan, where they must find a way of getting the General alone...

Before they know it, they are plunged deep into the world of deepfakes, scapegoats and a planned military coup. Soon, Danny and Bethany must question who and what they can trust...

“Ryan chooses fiercely up-to-the-minute plots, and laces them with an exceptional eye for detail and insider knowledge ... Fearsome and fast-moving. - Daily MailThe action comes bullet-fast and Ryan's experience of covert operations flash through the high-speed story like tracer rounds . - The SunNobody takes you to the action better than Ryan, because he's the real deal , and this muscle-and-bone thriller will have fans' blood pumping. - Evening Standard”

Ryan chooses fiercely up-to-the-minute plots, and laces them with an exceptional eye for detail and insider knowledge ... Fearsome and fast-moving. - Daily Mail

The action comes bullet-fast and Ryan's experience of covert operations flash through the high-speed story like tracer rounds. - The Sun

Nobody takes you to the action better than Ryan, because he's the real deal, and this muscle-and-bone thriller will have fans' blood pumping. - Evening Standard

Former SAS corporal and the only man to escape death or capture during the Bravo Two Zero operation in the 1991 Gulf War, Chris Ryan turned to writing thrillers to tell the stories the Official Secrets Act stops him putting in his non-fiction. His novels have gone on to inspire the Sky One series Strike Back.

Born near Newcastle in 1961, Chris Ryan joined the SAS in 1984. During his ten years there he was involved in overt and covert operations and was also sniper team commander of the anti-terrorist team. During the Gulf War, Chris Ryan was the only member of an eight-man unit to escape from Iraq, where three colleagues were killed and four captured. It was the longest escape and evasion in the history of the SAS. For this he was awarded the Military Medal.

He wrote about his experiences in the bestseller The One That Got Away, which was adapted for screen, and since then has written three other works of non-fiction, over twenty bestselling novels and a series of childrens' books.

The SAS is operating covertly in the wartorn badlands of northern Syria. They know it will be gritty, bloody and dangerous. But when Regiment legend Danny Black's unit, codenamed Zero 22, is tasked with a more routine operation, they don't expect it to end the way it does: in compromise and massacre, orchestrated by the shadowy Wagner Group, a paramilitary organisation in thrall to the Russian president.Back in the UK, Danny learns that his unit was betrayed by a mole feeding high-level military intelligence to the Russians. Like any SAS man worthy of the name, his first thought is to avenge the men who lost their lives on the Zero 22 op. He has no hesitation in accepting the mission to assassinate the man responsible for the death of his mates.But the headshed have more complicated plans and Danny finds himself operating with a face from his past whom he never thought he would see again. Together they embark on a high-risk, deniable mission that will require all Danny's Regiment skills if they are to have any hope of success. As the mission unfolds, however, Danny learns that darker forces are at play. And when everything he thinks he knows gets turned on its head, he realises that what started out as an act of revenge is just a single play in a conspiracy that will take him across the continents and pit him not only against the highly trained militants of the Wagner Group, but against the Kremlin, the White House and the insidious machinations of the most powerful men in the world.

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