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Stratton carries out a small task in Central America as a favour to a CIA officer which leads him to become embroiled in a national rebellion. Going against his principles, he becomes emotionally involved and joins the popular uprising. However, the fight is not only against the local government but also the CIA and with disastrous results |
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A top security prison 300 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico more secure than Guantanamo Bay or Alcatraz and far from prying eyes has some disturbing secrets. When a Taliban terrorist in possession of precious information belonging to British Military Intelligence ends up incarcerated within the prison Stratton is assigned to get inside it but without his US ally's knowledge. Stratton soon finds himself embroiled in a deadly and complex plot within the facility involving the CIA, FBI, Oval Office and a corrupt warden. Typically, this Falconer story kicks off at a thousand miles an hour and does not slow down until beyond the end.
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Three men: an Iraqi, a former coalition soldier, a journalist, drive together from Baghdad towards Fallujah as the US Marines encircle the city to take it apart. The men are supposedly on a single mission to seek a recent kidnap victim but in truth all three have very different aims in the besieged town, each a dark secret from the other. Greed, ambition and guilt are what separates the individual driving forces but a single miscalculation could bring an end to them all. Delicately |
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In war-torn Iraq, Stratton's closest friend is killed whilst on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child 's Stratton's godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles she is brutally murdered and her child placed in state custody. Stratton, rocked to his foundations by the killing, uncovers a FBI plot to hide the crime and sets off on a private operation of revenge that eventually pits him against one of the most powerful East European crime syndicates in America.Hunted by the CIA and FBI as well as a brutal army of Albanian mobsters and armed only with his wits and an extraordinary skill with explosives, Stratton relentlessly pursues his private war;a fight he susp ects could be his last.Yet another enjoyable Falconer weave of thrill and action wrapped in the rich authenticity that defined his previous novels, taking the reader on a roller-coaster ride across half the globe to a nail-biting climax.
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Two hundred miles south of the Devon coastline, Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and twenty men prepare for a daring mission they have trained more than a year for - the hijack of a super tanker, a five-storey superstructure laden with oil. Meanwhile, in an Elizabethan country house, SBS operative Stratton has been seconded to bodyguard work an d is bored by the lack of challenge. Not for long. With the helter-skelter pace that defined Duncan Falconer's brilliant debut THE HOSTAGE, Stratton is whisked away by helicopter to assist in a daring assault and rescue. THE HIJACK ranges from London to the Gaza Strip, from Riga in Latvia to Jerusalem. With a rich cast of characters from Russian secret service operatives to Al Qaeda terrorists and Israeli Intelligence, the authentic detail and heart stopping narrative will propel D uncan Fa lconer to the highest class of adventure writer. | ||
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When an undercover operation monitoring th e Real IRA goes horrifically wrong, British Intelligence turn to the one man who can get their agent out: Stratton, SBS operative with a lethal reputation. It's a dangerous race against time: if the Real IRA get to the Republic before Stratton gets to the Real IRA, his colleague is as good as dead. But the battle in the Northern Ireland borders is just the beginning. For there can only be one way the Real IRA knew about the British agent: someone within MI5 is tipping them off. A surveillance mission is mounted in Paris to identify the mole but ends in disaster: Hank Munro, US Navy SEAL on secondment, is captured. Munro's wife Kathryn is distraught, and her priest Father Kinsella is very supportive. Kinsella, though, is not the holy man he seems, and Kathryn becomes an unwitting part of a deadly Real IRA plan, a terror attack the likes of which London has never seen. .. When Hank is inadvertently kidnapped by terrorists on an SBS 'safe op', Kathryn returns home to America, only to be manipulated by her priest and secret IRA godfather into playing a role in Hank's release. Unknown to her she is to have a key part in the most destructive terrorist assault in Irish Republican history, one that holds the fate of hundreds of thousands of Londoners in its hands. | ||
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"First Into Action" by Duncan Falconer is his tale of life in the SBS (the Special Boat Service - much like the SAS, but it recruits purely from the Royal Marines). Duncan Falconer was the youngest person to ever join the Special Forces - immediately after basic recruit training he was allowed to attempt SBS selection - something which had never before, and never since been allowed. He passed SBS selection, against all odds and served with them for a number of y ears. Falconer recounts his life from an early age, including joining the Marines and the SBS all the way up to leaving. It's a superbly written biography which is humourous at times, action packed, revealing and always interesting. This will appeal to anyone interested in the armed forces, the Marines, the SBS or Special Forces actions. If you like the genre it's definetly worth reading, I've been through it three times and it's still great. | ||
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