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'Having been shot at definitely helps you write great thrillers...
I've been a huge fan of Chris Ryan since I read The One That Got
Away - he just gets better and better' - STEPHEN LEATHER 'An
intelligent and enthralling read' - FINANCIAL TIMES The SAS is
operating covertly in the wartorn badlands of northern Syria. They
know it will be gritty, bloody and dangerous. But when Regiment
legend Danny Black's unit, codenamed Zero 22, is tasked with a more
routine operation, they don't expect it to end the way it does: in
compromise and massacre, orchestrated by the shadowy Wagner Group,
a paramilitary organisation in thrall to the Russian president.
Back in the UK, Danny learns that his unit was betrayed by a mole
feeding high-level military intelligence to the Russians. Like any
SAS man worthy of the name, his first thought is to avenge the men
who lost their lives on the Zero 22 op. He has no hesitation in
accepting the mission to assassinate the man responsible for the
death of his mates. But the headshed have more complicated plans
and Danny finds himself operating with a face from his past whom he
never thought he would see again. Together they embark on a
high-risk, deniable mission that will require all Danny's Regiment
skills if they are to have any hope of success. As the mission
unfolds, however, Danny learns that darker forces are at play. And
when everything he thinks he knows gets turned on its head, he
realises that what started out as an act of revenge is just a
single play in a conspiracy that will take him across the
continents and pit him not only against the highly trained
militants of the Wagner Group, but against the Kremlin, the White
House and the insidious machinations of the most powerful men in
the world.
Staring into the hideous face of evil and illustrating the
fragility of courage, this tale centers on Kamal, an East Pakistani
who is born without a mouth and tongue. Rescued and educated by
Abbas Miah, his village's schoolteacher, he soon learns to keep his
ability to read and write a secret from those who condemn him for
his disfigurement. When news of West Pakistan's genocidal campaign
in the East reaches his village, he hesitates in joining the
resistance, bringing to light the gap between how he is perceived
by others and his true abilities, which proves both his torment and
his salvation. Liberal-minded and pacifist, Abbas Miah soon decides
to take his family and a few select villagers into the distant
flood plains of Bangladesh to wait out the conflict. Before they
can set sail, Miah's wife and hundreds of villagers are slaughtered
and the boat instead departs with Kamal, Miah, and a motley crew of
survivors. Gritty and heartfelt, this novel explores the capacity
for true community amidst a religious obsession with purity and the
urgent need to define who is kin in the creation of a new nation
state.
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Small Country
(Paperback)
Gael Faye; Translated by Sarah Ardizzone
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An international sensation, Small Country is a beautiful but
harrowing tale of coming-of-age in the face of civil war. 'A
luminous debut novel...Faye dramatises the terrible nostalgia of
having lost not only a childhood but also a whole world to war'
Guardian Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his
comfortable expat neighbourhood of Bujumbura with his French
father, Rwandan mother and little sister, Ana, is something close
to paradise. These are happy, carefree days spent with his friends
sneaking cigarettes and stealing mangoes, swimming in the lake and
riding bikes in the streets they have turned into their kingdom.
But dark clouds are gathering over this small country, and soon
their peaceful idyll will shatter when Burundi and neighbouring
Rwanda are brutally hit by war. 'Unforgettable... Gael Faye's
talent is breathtaking' Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers
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