Mission 1: Avenger
Part of the second Chris Ryan Extreme series
Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier... Chris Ryan Extreme
Former Warrant Officer Joe Gardner used to be the pride of the Regiment. Now he's a hard luck story heading for the scrapheap. But a phone call from the blue changes all that. Suddenly Gardner has a chance to go back to the frontline. His mission Uncover a suspected terrorist sleeper cell operating deep inside America's hi-tech defence industry. Simple enough. Then Gardner's luck runs out. And there's only one man who can finish the job - his oldest friend and deadliest rival.
Read MoreNobody takes you to the action better than Ryan, because he's the real deal, and this muscle-and-bone thriller will have fans' blood pumping - Evening StandardChris Ryan is as hard as nails - MirrorThe books are masterpieces of social realism. [Chris Ryan] has lived the virtual life he writes about - and that makes him the right kind of war novelist for this generation. These storylines are dependent on a bustle of verbs that lead in every instance to blood and explosions, desperate screams and increasing levels of difficulty: it is never long before we find things and people being zapped, fried, crunched, toasted and skewered, as the bad deeds of the world are comprehensively avenged - London Review of Books