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TDespatches from the secret world behind the headlines. Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his seventeenth novel, filled with his trademark action, thrills and inside knowledge.

Osama Bin Laden is dead.

The President of the United States knows it. The world knows it. And SAS hero Joe Mansfield knows it. He was on the ground in Pakistan when it happened. He saw Seal Team 6 go in, and he saw them extract with their grisly cargo. He was in the right place at the right time.

Or maybe, the wrong place at the wrong time.

Because now, somebody wants Joe dead, and they’re willing to do anything to make it happen. His world is violently dismantled. His family is targeted, his reputation destroyed. And as a mysterious and ruthless enemy plans a devastating terror attack on both sides of the Atlantic, Joe knows this: his only chance of survival is to find out what happened in Bin Laden’s compound the night the Americans went in.

But an unseen, menacing power has footprints it needs to cover. And it will stop at nothing to prevent him uncovering the sinister truth…

ARelentlessly 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

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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.

The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly – or more cunning. And if they enter the Taliban’s kill zone, they know just what to expect…

When three deadly Stinger missiles go missing in Helmand Province, the Regiment is tasked to retrieve the weapons at all costs. SAS legend Jack Harker has to lead an eight-man mission into a suspected Taliban facility. He’s suspicious about what the aims of the mission really are – and it’s about to go noisy.

Meanwhile, in Belfast, Siobhan Byrne, a highly trained surveillance operative, is infiltrating the drug crew of a former IRA commander. But are her motives professional or personal? Even she doesn’t know any more.

Neither Jack nor Siobhan can guess just how closely linked their operations are about to become, or just what’s at stake. But as the President of the United States makes plans to visit the UK, a devastating plot unfolds.

SAS Captain Alex Temple is on an urgent mission. Someone has been murdering MI5 officers and it looks as if the killer is an insider, one of the Regiment’s own. Alex’s task is to track down and eliminate the killer, and to assist him he is assigned an MI5 liason officer – the attractive but abrasive Dawn Harding.

The body-count is mounting and a deadly and relentless manhunt begins. Soon Alex will learn the bitter truth: in the shadowy battlegrounds of the Intelligence wars there is no good and no evil – only winners and losers.

This relentless unputdownable thriller helps establish Chris Ryan as the master of no-holds-barred action storytelling.