Ultimate Weapon
a race against time blockbuster from number one bestselling author, Chris Ryan
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
This all-action, high-octane thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Chris Ryan is perfect for fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather. Guaranteed to keep you hooked and get your pulse-racing...
'Hard as nails' -- Mirror
'Slick, polished and gut-wrenching stuff' -- Irish Times
'Chris Ryan has done it again' -- ***** Reader review
'A fantastic read' -- ***** Reader review
'Couldn't put the book down' -- ***** Reader review
'A real page-turner' -- ***** Reader review
'Gripping' -- ***** Reader review
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TWO MEN STORM THE FRONT LINE TO FACE THEIR ULTIMATE ENEMY
Three people. Three stories. And a desperate race for survival in a country in the midst of war.
Nick Scott fought in the SAS during the first Gulf War. Captured and tortured, he was left a broken man. His daughter Sarah Scott is a beautiful young scientist who has cracked one of the scientific secrets of the age. Now, she has vanished.
Her lover Jed Bradley is one of the SAS's toughest young agents, dropped behind enemy lines in the build up to the Iraq War to find the truth about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
Caught up in a global power play, Nick and Jed must fight their way through a war-ravaged Iraq as the regime of Saddam Hussein collapses around them.
It is a desperate race to find the woman they both love. And to unlock the secret of the Ultimate Weapon.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The apparent intelligence snafus that led up to the Iraq War provide the backdrop for this intricately plotted thriller from bestselling British author Ryan (The One That Got Away). Sarah Scott, a Cambridge University graduate student conducting nuclear research, goes missing just before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Her father, Nick Scott, a former SAS trooper who was captured in the first Gulf War and tortured in Saddam's dungeons, and Sarah's boyfriend, Jed Bradley, a current SAS member, join forces to find her. Naturally, Nick and Jed despise each other, but a lovely and extremely devious female intelligence agent makes sure they cooperate. Ryan, himself an SAS veteran of the first Gulf War, makes his two heroes' actions and motivations credible. The book offers an ingenious answer as to why Saddam was "really" overthrown, though those who know their armor may have a few nits to pick with how the author describes the way a Russian T-55 tank works.
