The Butcher of Khan Younis

By Alex Turnbull

THE BUTCHER OF KHAN YOUNIS

Some battles leave no victors - only survivors.

In the bombed-out streets of Gaza, American journalist Emma Callahan stumbles onto a story bigger than she ever imagined, and pays for it with her freedom. Captured by Hamas and imprisoned alongside Israeli hostages, she faces torture at the hands of Tariq Al-Masri, a brutal Hamas commander and the focus of her investigative journalism.

When hostage negotiation is not an option, SEAL team commander Frank Rudden receives the kill order. Leading his elite unit of tactical specialists - men who operate in the spaces between deniable and disposable. Frank knows this mission has a razor-thin margin for success. Zero room for error. No acceptable casualties.

With Mossad deep-cover operative Layla Abramov providing crucial ground intelligence, the team infiltrates a city where every window hides a sniper, every alley an ambush. As Layla leads them through Gaza's deadly streets, the true complexity of their mission emerges: extract the hostages and eliminate Tariq before a political storm brings down both the US and Israeli governments, and all-out war to the Middle East.

When bullets start flying and blood hits the sand, even the most meticulously planned operations unravel. Frank and his team find themselves in a desperate race against time as the clock ticks toward execution hour.

With gritty realism, The Butcher of Khan Younis drops readers into the heart of modern combat. This is no sanitized vision of war; it's a brutal, unflinching account of what it takes to survive when every shadow could mean death, and victory is measured in heartbeats.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G76G6BSR
• ISBN13: 9798232887476
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Turnbull Thrillers
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"