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SAS Black Ops - Shadowman is a stand-alone Black Ops novel featuring Jonny Davies and the team from B.O.S.S. This novel contains scenes of violence and some bad language and is aimed at an adult audience.
Sometimes one event can change the course of history: a political decision, a terrorist outrage. We were about to become immersed in the latter. The United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service asked us to undertake a straightforward job in Afghanistan. We were contracted to go in, raid a small compound and collect the electronic equipment inside.
What is known in the trade as a kill-and-collect operation. In other words, to ensure no one knows the equipment has gone, we eliminate everyone in the building and then blow the building sky high so it looks as though it has been destroyed by an air strike. At that point, no one suspects the equipment is missing, offering the spooks an opportunity to eavesdrop on the electronic and telecommunication devices. From there they build up a list of known players, and deal with them accordingly.
It sounds simple enough: hit the building hard, kill everyone inside and vanish into the night, leaving a big orange fireball in our wake.
But this operation was different: we'd only been told half the story!
From the moment we entered the building, we knew something wasn't quite right. There was some in the building with us: someone unlike other jihadis. It was like a ghost moving through the darkened complex, and then he simply vanished into the night.
Only once we returned to the UK did we find out the true nature of the adventure. Al-Qaeda had recruited a lone gunman: a gunman trained for one specific job, to murder a senior member of the Royal Family on the streets of London with a stolen American Barrett Light-fifty, and create a fracture in the Special Relationship. With the most high-profile assassination since the murder of JFK about to take place, we were charged with stopping it.
Time was not on our side. Shadowman was on his way, and the prospect of killing him, before he could kill his target, was unlikely. But not constrained with the usual protocols on law and order, we were ordered to do whatever it took to eliminate the suspect.
Many would die in the process. Nothing would stop Shadowman - and nothing would stop us.
Genre: Thriller
Sometimes one event can change the course of history: a political decision, a terrorist outrage. We were about to become immersed in the latter. The United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service asked us to undertake a straightforward job in Afghanistan. We were contracted to go in, raid a small compound and collect the electronic equipment inside.
What is known in the trade as a kill-and-collect operation. In other words, to ensure no one knows the equipment has gone, we eliminate everyone in the building and then blow the building sky high so it looks as though it has been destroyed by an air strike. At that point, no one suspects the equipment is missing, offering the spooks an opportunity to eavesdrop on the electronic and telecommunication devices. From there they build up a list of known players, and deal with them accordingly.
It sounds simple enough: hit the building hard, kill everyone inside and vanish into the night, leaving a big orange fireball in our wake.
But this operation was different: we'd only been told half the story!
From the moment we entered the building, we knew something wasn't quite right. There was some in the building with us: someone unlike other jihadis. It was like a ghost moving through the darkened complex, and then he simply vanished into the night.
Only once we returned to the UK did we find out the true nature of the adventure. Al-Qaeda had recruited a lone gunman: a gunman trained for one specific job, to murder a senior member of the Royal Family on the streets of London with a stolen American Barrett Light-fifty, and create a fracture in the Special Relationship. With the most high-profile assassination since the murder of JFK about to take place, we were charged with stopping it.
Time was not on our side. Shadowman was on his way, and the prospect of killing him, before he could kill his target, was unlikely. But not constrained with the usual protocols on law and order, we were ordered to do whatever it took to eliminate the suspect.
Many would die in the process. Nothing would stop Shadowman - and nothing would stop us.
Genre: Thriller
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