Killing for the Company, Chris Ryan
Killing for the Company, Chris Ryan
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Killing for the Company
Just another day at the office...

Author: Chris Ryan

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Abridged: 4 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Coronet

Published: 09/01/2011


Synopsis

Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his sixteenth novel and it is full of all his trademark action, thrills and inside knowledge.

2003. Invalided out of the SAS Chet Freeman makes his living in high-end security, on a temporary contract for an American corporation called the Grosvenor Group. He catches a young woman, a peace campaigner, eavesdropping on a meeting the Group is holding with the British Prime Minister. The Group's interests include arms manufacture, and what Chet and the young woman overhear seems to imply that it is bribing the Prime Minister to take his country into an illegal war. Could this possibly be true?

Somebody believes that this is a secret that needs covering up, because Chet and the girl are attacked. Hunted down, they go into hiding, and a deadly game of cat and mouse begins.

Nearly ten years later tension is reaching breaking point in Jerusalem. The now ex-Prime Minister is working as a Middle East peace envoy. As the city descends into anarchy and rival armies are poised to turn it into a battlefield, Chet's best buddy, Luke, is part of a team tasked by the Regiment with extracting the ex-Prime Minister.

At the height of the battle Luke discovers a conspiracy far more devastating than any arms deal.

(P)2011 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

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 Glenn on January 19, 2023

Killing for the Company is a gripping story spanning a couple of decades. It’s focused on British SAS soldiers in the Saddam Hussein, “weapons of mass destruction “ period. Plenty of unexpected twists and turns and the sudden, GoT like demise of central characters is shocking (not in a bad way). It......more

Goodreads review by Huw on January 14, 2018

There were just about enough variations from the theme of "how the SAS kill people horribly" to make this a vaguely entertaining book. The assassinations don't finish with the dead bodies though - this is essentially an attempt at a character assassination of Tony Blair. It has a revolving series of......more

Goodreads review by ian marriott on November 01, 2018

Mystery until the end! Another brilliant book by Chris Ryan, as if the action throughout wasn't enough, the total surprise in the last pages was breathtaking. I never considered THAT ending!!......more

Goodreads review by Katrien on April 19, 2019

Niet slecht, in de bekende stijl van Chris Ryan. De algemene plot is goed, zit clever in elkaar maar inde uitwerking zitten er een paar ergerlijke stukken. Zeker op het einde wanneer het hoofdpersonage ondoodbaar blijkt.... mixed feelings......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on January 21, 2024

Excellent as always, plot gripping, characters enticing and violence by the truck load ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️......more


Quotes

Chris Ryan is as hard as nails. Mirror

When a book says Chris Ryan on the front, there's little doubt as to what's in store... expect lots of Afghan action but also intelligent, political thrills. Mail on Sunday

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. London Review of Books