Deadly Skills of the Elite Forces

Fight to Win

Secret Combat Skills of the Elite Forces

Now this is what the best-selling Dangerous Book For Boys should have been like. A must for all military buffs and blokes who just want to look hard

Chris Ryan was born near Newcastle in 1961. He joined the SAS in 1984 and was a member for ten years. During the Gulf War, Chris was the only member of an eight-man team to escape from Iraq, of which three colleagues were killed and four captured. It was the longest escape and evasion in the history of the SAS. For his last two years he was selecting and training potential recruits for the SAS. 
 
He is a best selling author and lectures in business motivation and security.

The mysterious world of elite combat units blown wide open... 
 
Find out how elite teams prepare for Close Quarter Battle. 
 
Discover how they launch assaults against pirate boats. 
 
Learn the secrets to directing air attack against a key intelligence target. 
 
Read how units manage to enter hostile territory undetected, and carry out long-ranges reconnaissance mission deep behind enemy lines. 
 
In his new book, former SAS hero Chris Ryan delves into the secretive world of elite warfare, revealing the nuts and bolts of some of the toughest, sharpest and most legendary fighting units in existence around the world today. 
 
Drawing on his experience as a soldier in the Regiment for a decade, as well as his recent unique access to some of the world's hardest and most sophisticated special police units for his TV show Elite World Cops, Chris Ryan explores the secrets of the trade. From the HALO insertion technique to mounting ambushes and escape-and-evasion tips, Chris Ryan's Fight to Win is the ultimate guide to elite forces training and operations.

Endgame

Some authors just write about it. Chris Ryan has been there, done it and lived to tell the tale and this is his brand-new edge-of-your-seat thriller from the SAS hero.

Chris Ryan served in the SAS for ten years and was awarded the Military  Medal for his work under cover in Iraq. He now travels the world as a  security expert, putting all his real-life experience into his books and  TV shows.

'Don’t come after us … remember the first thing I ever taught you - that your first duty is to stay alive' 
 
For some time now, Zack Darke has been operating solo, in total secrecy, for a shadowy government organisation. 
 
When his handlers are abducted by somebody with a serious personal vendetta against him, Zak has no choice but to go after them. And heading across the world to find them - into danger like he's never known - is something that, this time, he cannot do alone . . .

Under Cover

Ricky is a street kid – sharp, quick and usually up to no good. When he tries to steal from the wrong people, he is saved by a mysterious man called Felix who makes Ricky a compelling offer: a flat and a hundred pounds a week. All he has to do is take lessons from Felix. 
 
Soon Ricky finds himself learning about surveillance techniques, how to make himself invisible in a crowd and hand to hand combat. But what is this all for? Ricky has no idea until he’s given his first mission and finds his whole world turned upside down.

Agent 21

Deadfall

Zak Darke is sent  on what seems like a straightforward surveillance op in South Africa but it soon turns into the toughest, most dangerous mission he has ever faced. An old enemy has teamed up with a terrifying gang of child soldiers and Zak is caught in the middle. Having travelled to the heart of the African jungle, will he make it out alive . . . ?

World Book Day

Agent 21: The Wire

Some authors just write about it. Chris Ryan has been there, done it and lived to tell the tale. An ebook short, part of the thrilling, action-packed Agent 21 series. Has teen agent Zak Darke made his last mistake . . .?

Working for a shadowy government agency, teenage special agent Zak Darke goes undercover to infiltrate a dangerous gang of fifteen-year-old gun dealers. 
 
But while the gang members may be young, they aren’t so easily fooled. Has Agent 21 made his last mistake?

Book 3

Agent 21: Codebreaker

Some authors just write about it. Chris Ryan has been there, done it and lived to tell the tale. This is the third Agent 21 story, featuring teen agent Zak Darke, by the real-life SAS hero.

Secret agent Zak Darke is back for his third mission - and the stakes have never been higher. 
 
An unknown bomber is conducting a terror campaign in London. After an explosion on the tube leaves someone dead, Zak and his team are brought in to try and work out how this terror cell operates - but clues are scarce and they have no idea where, or when, the bomber will strike next. A teenage boy, currently detained in a young offender's institute, claims he has the answer - but before Zak can question him, the boy is shot and falls into a coma. Will Zak be able to break the cipher before the bomber strikes again?

Chris Ryan

Real strength in detailing the nitty-gritty of operations

Packed with trademark technical detailing and gung-ho action

Chris Ryan's The One That Got Away must rank with the great escape stories of modern military history

The legendary true story of an SAS man alone behind enemy lines

Eight members of the SAS set off on the mission. Only one evaded capture. 
This is his true story. 
 
The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous true stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Late on the evening of 24 January 1991, the patrol was compromised deep behind enemy lines in Iraq. A fierce firefight left the eight men miraculously unscathed, but they were forced to run for their lives. 
 
Their aim was to reach the Syrian border, 120 kilometres to the north-west, but during the first night the patrol accidentally broke into two groups of five and three. Chris Ryan found himself left with two companions. Nothing had prepared them for the vicious cold of the desert winter, and after a blizzard and a desperate search for food, Chris Ryan found himself the last man standing. 
 
Left on his own, Ryan narrowly escaped an Iraqi attack and set out alone, trying to reach the border through some of the most lethal country in the world. This is the story of courage under fire, of skin-of-the-teeth escapes, of the best trained soldiers in the world fighting against adverse conditions, and of one man's courageous refusal to lie down and die.

Chris Ryan

Praise for The One That Got Away

Real strength in detailing the nitty-gritty of operations

Packed with trademark technical detailing and gung-ho action

Raw and brutal

Real strength in detailing the nitty-gritty of operations

Packed with trademark technical detailing and gung-ho action

Raw and brutal

Real strength in detailing the nitty-gritty of operations

Packed with trademark technical detailing and gung-ho action

Raw and brutal

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