Hellfire, Chris Ryan
Hellfire, Chris Ryan
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Hellfire
Danny Black Thriller 3

Author: Chris Ryan

Narrator: Michael Fenner

Unabridged: 12 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Coronet

Published: 08/27/2015

Synopsis

On the Syria/Iraq border a British hostage is beheaded by IS terrorists. The executioner is a young British extremist. A masked figure watches him. This mysterious person is treated with a mixture of respect and terror. They call him the Caliph.

In Nigeria the British High Commisioner and his young aide are kidnapped. A four-person SAS team, including Regiment hero Danny Black, is deployed to find him. The team find devastation in Nigeria, and when they discover prisoners infected with the plague they realise they have uncovered a combined Boko Haram/IS plot to unleash a bio-terror attack upon the world.

The team must stop the terrorists and identify the Caliph before the deadly disease threatens those much closer to home.

(P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton

About Chris Ryan

Former SAS corporal and the only man to escape death or capture during the Bravo Two Zero operation in the 1991 Gulf War, Chris Ryan turned to writing thrillers to tell the stories the Official Secrets Act stops him putting in his non-fiction. His novels have gone on to inspire the Sky One series Strike Back. Born near Newcastle in 1961, Chris Ryan joined the SAS in 1984. During his ten years there he was involved in overt and covert operations and was also sniper team commander of the anti-terrorist team. During the Gulf War, Chris Ryan was the only member of an eight-man unit to escape from Iraq, where three colleagues were killed and four captured. It was the longest escape and evasion in the history of the SAS. For this he was awarded the Military Medal. He wrote about his experiences in the bestseller The One That Got Away, which was adapted for screen, and since then has written three other works of non-fiction, over twenty bestselling novels and a series of children's books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on November 16, 2016

Another gripping Danny Black novel from Chris Ryan. What is always scary about these intense stories is the fact that some of the events portrayed could actually happen in real life and devastate the world. Let's hope they remain enjoyable fiction and never become fact.......more

Goodreads review by L.M. on August 25, 2021

In these trying times of Pandemic, this book is very scary! Terrorists have a Chinese Made Bio-weapon, a specially designed strain of Plague, and are attempting to release it on the west, and only Danny and Spud can stop them. This Chris Ryan all over, gritty and realistic, sparing none of the bruta......more

Goodreads review by Mitch on August 19, 2021

If you want action this has got it. If you don't, then don't bother turning the first page......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on June 30, 2016

This was pretty good. The theme is terrifying plausible which makes it uncomfortable reading at certain points :(......more

Goodreads review by Maz on September 25, 2015

Another great book with loads of action.......more

Quotes

[Ryan] is reliably capable of depicting international crises and special forces operations in plausible and gripping detail Sunday Times

Praise for Chris Ryan :

Ryan writes the kind of no-frills prose that virtually dictates the pace at which it is read. We're told just as much as we need to know, and it never gets in the way of the action . . . If you want a demonstration of how 400-odd pages can pass by in the wink of an eye, Ryan is your man. Independent

Ryan... became so expert as a modern thriller writer that it is easy to underestimate his talents...He chooses fiercely up-to-the-minute plots, and laces them with an exceptional eye for detail and insider knowledge...Fearsome and fast-moving...much more than a conventional thriller. Daily Mail

A shockingly authentic tale to keep your adrenaline pumping as fast as the blood on the pages. The Sun

Chris Ryan has always been underrated as a novelist of ideas... a welter of treachery and mayhem. Daily Telegraph

The 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

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