'Having been shot at definitely helps you write great thrillers... I've been a huge fan of
Chris Ryan since I read The One That Got Away - he just gets better and better' - STEPHEN
LEATHER'An intelligent and enthralling read' - FINANCIAL TIMESThe 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.
