Relentlessly pulse-pounding and completely unputdownable, multi-million copy bestseller Chris Ryan 's Stand By, Stand By is as exciting as the military thriller can be. Fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather will not be disappointed... 'Hard as nails' — Mirror 'Tough, high-testosterone stuff, gripping' — Glasgow Herald 'Great story telling, the book grips you on the first page and doesn't let you go' - \\\\\* Reader review 'Amazing from start to finish' - \\\\\* Reader review 'Action packed, full of twists and turns and authenticity' - \\\\\* Reader review 'Fabulous enthralling read, which kept me on edge, I couldn't put it down' - \\\\\* Reader review \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ A MAN AT WAR WITH THE ENEMY - AND HIS OWN DEMONS... Geordie Sharp, a sergeant in the SAS, is struggling to pick up the threads of his army career. Wounded in the Gulf War, he returns to Hereford to find his home life in tatters. As he trains with Northern Ireland Troop, a murder in his family fires him up with personal hatred of the IRA. Posted to Belfast, he discovers that his adversary is Declan Farrell, a leading player in the Provisional IRA. Sharp sets out to stalk and kill his man. Never has there been a more graphic account of the SAS in action, never a thriller so authentically grounded in the twists and turns of undercover warfare.

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 100 per cent 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 nightmare maze, desperately seeking some way of averting tragedy. Who will be hit the hardest—Geordie Sharp or the British government?

Geordie Sharp is asked to undertake an SAS operation so outrageous that his conscience will barely allow him to carry it out. The ostensible aim of Operation NIMROD is to train a new Spetznaz unit to combat the threat of the Russian mafia, but Sharp's orders contain a sinister hidden agenda. When two SAS men are lifted by Mafia agents, the British authorities' secret weapon is turned against London and only Geordie Sharp can save the day.

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