Strike Back

By Chris Ryan

Book Overview

Two soldiers: Britain's most celebrated military hero and a broken veteran living in the gutters of London. Their paths last crossed nearly twenty years ago. Now, amidst a hostage crisis in the Middle East, their lives are about to collide again. And the Strike Back is about to begin.

John Porter was involved in a hostage raid in Lebanon in 1989. The raid went disastrously wrong, several regiment men died, John spared the life of a Lebanese fighter and blames himself for the deaths. Struggling to come to terms with the past, John has hit the bottle and is sleeping rough.

Colonel Peregrine Collinson was involved in the same raid. He was awarded a Military Cross and is heralded as a military hero.

After the disastrous raid, their lives couldn't have been further apart. Until now. A hostage crisis in the Middle East draws the enemies back together for the first time. Who will be the hero this time?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099556650
• ISBN13: 9780099556657
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Arrow
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.2" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Strike Back

Chris Ryan is my favourite author, this book is awesome, just heard its coming out as a Sky1 program?!?!? cant wait for that should be amazing! Brilliant read, all his books are brilliant!

Action book

Well this one was my first book I read from Chris Ryan. I would say I liked it. It was full of action and I could not stop reading it. I liked how the writer could put in lots of action and also some great personal story into this. If you ask me if I would read it second time then no. This is one of the books you read as time killers. But was interesting.