Chris Ryan

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The One That Got Away:
My SAS Mission Behind Iraqi Lines

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 1993
Beskrivning: The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Of the eight members of the SAS regiment who set off, only one escaped capture. This is his story. Left on his own, Chris Ryan beat off an Iraqi attack and set out alone. His greatest adventure was only just beginning. This is the story of courage under fire, of hairbreadth 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.
Kommentar: Mycket bra bok som bör läsas av alla. Ger en inblick i hur det kan vara att få problem bakom fiendens linjer och understödet är långt borta. Dessutom hur utlämnad man blir när den tekniska materielen heller inte funkar. INtressant också hur struligt, ont om materiel och information de hade, fastän de är Storbrittaniens elitstyrka och faktiskt befinner sig i krig. Man är inte avundsjuk på de strapatser de tvingas genomföra för att rädda sina liv. Ger en annan mer brutal bild av Gulfkriget än den genom siktet på en laserguidad bomb.

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Stand By, Stand By

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 1996
Beskrivning: Georgie Sharp, a sergeant in the SAS, is struggling to pick up the threads of his army career. Wounded in the Gulf War, he returns to Hereford to find his home life in tatters. As he trains with Northern Ireland troops, a murder in his family fires him with a personal hatred of the IRA. Posted to Belfast, he discovers that his adversary is Declan Farrell, a leading player in the Provisional IRA. Sharp sets out to stalk and kill his man…
Kommentar: Mycket bra som beskriver mycket av Chris Ryans uppväxt och tid i brittiska armén.

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The Kremlin Device

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 1998
Beskrivning: This is the novel in which SAS Sergeant Geordie Sharp, always a loner and a maverick, finally goes over the edge. He is sent to Moscow to lead a team training the Russian Protection Service, a division of the former KGB, to acquire new anti-terrorist skills. The Russian Mafia is threatening to take control of the country, and Geordie learns, too, of their massive new presence in London.
The secret side of his mission is to plant a nuclear device in the sewers of Moscow as protection against any future Russian attack on the UK, a renewed danger in view of fast increasing political volatility and lawlessness. After two of Geordie's team are kidnapped he realises that the Mafia have control of the nuclear device, and he learns subsequently that it is being transported back to the UK…
Kommentar: Ganska intressant att plantera en atombomb i Moskva för USA´s räkning.

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Tenth Man Down

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår:1999
Beskrivning: When an SAS team is sent to train government troops in Kamanga, a poverty-stricken and war-torn republic in the dark heart of southern Africa, Geordie Sharp is caught up in the most dangerous and difficult assignment of his career. At the outset of the mission a juju, or witch doctor, predicts that ten whites are going to die, and as the prediction starts to come true one by one down they go. In the south of Kamanga, rebel forces have seized the diamond mines which produce the bulk of the country's wealth. The aim of the crack government unit is to recover these lucrative assets, with Geordie Sharp and his squad providing much-needed backup. When the SAS men see that the rebels are boosted by ex-US Navy SEALs mercenaries, they begin to sense a hidden agenda. Before they can discover what it is, Sharp and two others fall into rebel hands. His comrade Whinger dies a hideous death, but Sharp manages to escape. At last Sharp stumbles onto the secret which is drawing such strong international interest - only to realise that he himself may have been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation in the process. Is he the tenth and last of the juju's victims?
Kommentar: Den bästa boken av Chris Ryan. Häpnadsväckande beskrivning av det afrikanska förband han tränar upp.

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The Hitlist

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 2000
Beskrivning: When a tycoon apparently falls from his yacht and drowns, the two secret service operatives who have in fact murdered him are also killed. The top secret governmental organisation that had employed them needs to find new recruits. Peter Slater, a former SAS soldier, is working as a games master in a public school. When he foils an attempt by terrorists to kidnap an Arab boy, the boy is hurt and Slater is sacked. Down on his luck he is framed for the murder of his girlfriend, and blackmailed into working for MI7. The missions he is asked to undertake on behalf of the British government become so evil that he finds himself preferring to die rather than complete these missions successfully.
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Kommentar: Lite långtråkig och trist miljö, inte den bästa av hans böcker.

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The Watchman

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 2001
Beskrivning: Alex is a 36 year old SAS Captain. Recently commissioned from the ranks, he is returning from a hostage-rescue mission in Sierra Leone when he finds himself summoned back to the UK. Someone, it seems, has been murdering MI5 officers. And murdering them in a particularly gruesome and horrific way. A hammer is involved, as is a skinning-knife. The security services, however, are more concerned with the why than the how. Because it is beginning to look as if the killer is an insider, SAS-trained, one of the Regiment's own.
The body-count is mounting, and under strict cover of secrecy Alex is ordered to track down and eliminate the killer. To assist him in this task he is assigned an MI5 liaison officer - the attractive but abrasive Dawn Harding. And so begins a deadly and relentless manhunt. The killer, Alex discovers, was almost certainly an undercover soldier codenamed the Watchman who, in the early '90s, infiltrated the highest levels of the IRA's Army Council. He was - and without doubt remains - a lethally skilful operator. But why is the Watchman slaughtering his way through the upper ranks of the security services? A nightmare chase, a betrayal and a dawn firefight will all ensue before Alex learns the bitter truth: that in the shadowy battlegrounds of the Intelligence wars there is no good and no evil - there are only winners and losers.
Kommentar: Nick ställs mot en jämlike som likt han själv är mycket noggran. Endast en kan överleva...och ni vet ju vem det är, just det...

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NON FICTION

CHRIS RYAN´S SAS FITNESS BOOK

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 2001
Beskrivning: At 38, Chris Ryan has reached peak physical condition. After years of intensive training by experts in the SAS he has learnt to attain a level of fitness that improves his performance in all aspect of life. Now he has adapted techniques and honed his routines to devise a three-month programme that's both extremely easy and effective for males of all ages and lifestyles. He combines endurance training and work-outs for strength and suppleness with a guide to nutrition and all round health maintenance for men.
All the excercises will be photographed in full colour in this easy to follow guide. He also provides training programmes for longer and shorter timescales, specifically aimed at weight loss or weight gain, in addition to giving nutritional advice from the experts to maximise the success of the excercise plans.
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Land of Fire

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 2002
Beskrivning: 1982. The Falklands War. Young SAS trooper, Mike Hood risks his life to capture an Argentine girl spy. To knock out enemy bombers a daring mission is planned against a fortified airbase on Tierra del Feugo, the remote tip of the South American mainland. Hood and his fellow SAS are sent in ahead to reconnoitre. Detected by the enemy, they must fight their way out. Twenty years on an Argentine military junta is returned to power. They determine to reinvade the Falkland Islands. Now a senior NCO, Hood is back in the South Atlantic, haunted by memories he thought he had buried. British air defences have been knocked out in a sneak attack and once again Argentine forces are being secretly readied for an assault on the Islands. A team from the crack SAS Mountain Troop is inserted by submarine. But has the mission been compromised from the start? When fate throws Hood together with the girl from his past, he is faced with a conflict of loyalties. Can he trust her now? And can they escape in time to destroy the enemy bombers and prevent all out war?
Kommentar: Intressanta detaljer om att innästla på en välövervakad bas med trampminor, stängsel och patrullerande personal.

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Greed

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 2003
Beskrivning: Five men, one robbery. A deadly game of greed, revenge and betrayal is about to begin. Fresh out of the SAS, Matt Browning is down on his luck. He owes £500,000. If he doesn't get the money soon, he dies. From nowhere he is offered a lifeline. A hit on al-Queda, sanctioned and helped by MI5. Matt gathers a small team of former SAS men to steal $10 million in gold and diamonds from the world's most deadly terrorist organisation. MI5 will give them all the equipment and information they need. No charges will ever be pressed. Matt thinks it's the perfect crime. Safe quick and patriotic. But after the money is stolen, the killing starts. Someone is taking down the members of the team one by one. A silent, expert assassin is stalking the team, gruesomely murdering both them and their families and Matt knows that he's next. An explosive story of what happens when terrorism, money love and jealousy combust.
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The Increment

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 2004
Beskrivning:The Increment - the elite assassination unit of the SAS. Three years ago Matt Browning was thrown out of the unit for questioning an order - and he was on his way out of the SAS. Now, when he thought he had put military life behind him, he finds himself dragged back into action. MI6 are demanding he helps a giant drugs company destroy copies of its medicines being produced by Eastern European gangsters. But the mission is not what it seems. An old friend from the Army has turned into a homicidal maniac - and so are soldiers from around the country. Suddenly Matt finds himself thrust into the centre of a deadly mystery. As the answers start to unravel, Matt finds himself the only man in possession of a terrifying secret. Alone and on the run he is up against The Increment - the most ruthless, lethal killing machine on earth.
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Blackout

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 2005
Beskrivning: Blackout - three cities all loose power. No-one claims responsibility. Fears of a terrorist strike are imminent. Josh Harding is a tough SAS soldier. Yet his disregard for authority has landed him a secondment to MI6's anti-terrorism unit. In the wake of the mysterious 'Three Cities' attacks, Josh finds himself on the way to the USA, on the trail of a pair on intrepid young hackers who are out to try and make themselves a fortune, and who are in grave danger from those who would kill for the secrets they have managed to uncover - how to control the power of the Western world. But soon Josh finds himself waking up in a ditch bloody and wounded, and with no memory of who he is, how he got there, or how he got hurt. Yet one thing is for certain - Josh is in danger. Stranded in the Wild West, Josh must rely on his instincts as a soldier and on the kindness of a beautiful stranger in order to escape those who appear intent on tracking him down and killing him - all for a secret he can't remember. His determination to discover who he is, and what he was doing there leads him into an explosive web of corporate blackmail, deceit and greed - where the stakes are high and where no-one can be trusted.
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Ultimate Weapon

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 2006
Beskrivning: Three people. Three stories. And a desperate race for survival in a country in the midst of war. Nick Scott fought in the SASduring 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.
Kommentar: På tok för mycket strider två män orkar med. Flera dygn i sträck, strid efter strid, enorma risker, skada efter skada. Kors och tvärs i Irak. Nick och Jed är värre än självaste John McClane i Die Hard-filmerna.

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Strike Back

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 2007
Beskrivning: Two soldiers: Britain's most celebrated military hero and a broken veteran living in the gutters of London. Their paths last crossed nearly twenty years ago. Now, amidst a hostage crisis in the Middle East, their lives are about to collide again. And the Strike Back is about to begin. John Porter was involved in a hostage raid in Lebanon in 1989. The raid went disastrously wrong, several Regiment men died, John spared the life of a Lebanese fighter and blames himself for the deaths. Struggling to come to terms with the past, John has hit the bottle and is sleeping rough. Colonel Peregrine Collinson was involved in the same raid. He was awarded a Military Cross and is heralded as a military hero. After the disastrous raid, their lives couldn't have been further apart. Until now. A hostage crisis in the Middle East draws the enemies back together for the first time. Who will be the hero this time?
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Firefight

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: engelska
Utgivningsår: 2008
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Alpha force

• Alpha Force 1: Survival (2002)

• Alpha Force 2: Rat-catcher (2002)

• Alpha Force 3: Desert Pursuit (2003)

• Alpha Force 4: Hostage (2003)

• Alpha Force 5: Red Centre (2004)

• Alpha Force 6: Hunted (2004)

• Alpha Force 7: Blood Money (2005)

• Alpha Force 8: Fault Line (2005)

• Alpha Force 9: Black Gold (2005)

• Alpha Force 10: Untouchable (2005)

Code Red

• Flash Flood (2006)

• Wildfire (2007)

• Outbreak (2007)

• Vortex (2008)

• Twister (2008)

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Quick Reads (lättläst)

One Good Turn (2008)

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SANN BERÄTTELSE

Den ende som kom undan

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: svenska
Utgivningsår: 1993
Beskrivning: SAS uppdrag är att förstöra SCUD ramper och irakiska kommunikationsförbindelser under Gulfkriget bakom fiendens linjer, är tack vare Andy McNabs "Bravo Två Noll" och Chris Ryans "Den enda som kom undan" det mest berömd uppdraget i moden krigshistoria. Chris Ryan var med i samma grupp som Andy McNab och av de åtta medlemmarna i gruppen var Chris Ryan den enda som kom undan och slapp att bli tillfångatagen eller dödad. Detta är hans berättelse om den HÅRDA vägen till den syriska gränsen till fots genom den torra och stundtals iskalla irakiska öknen.
Kommentar: Mycket bra bok som bör läsas av alla. Ger en inblick i hur det kan vara att få problem bakom fiendens linjer och understödet är långt borta. Dessutom hur utlämnad man blir när den tekniska materielen heller inte funkar. Intressant också hur struligt, ont om materiel och information de hade, fastän de är Storbritanniens elitstyrka och faktiskt befinner sig i krig. Man är inte avundsjuk på de strapatser de tvingas genomföra för att rädda sina liv. Ger en annan mer brutal bild av Gulfkriget än den genom siktet på en laserguidad bomb som ju så ofta visades på CNN.

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Stand by, Stand by

Författare: Chris Ryan
Språk: svenska
Utgivningsår: 1997
Beskrivning: Georgie Sharp, en sergeant i brittiska SAS och han kämpar för att komma tillbaka till sitt gamla jag efter att ha blivit skadad i Gulfkriget. När han tränar med trupper på Nordirland inträffar ett mord i hans familj. IRA ligger bakom attentatet. Georgie blir rasande och tar upp jakten för att döda IRA-mannen med alla till buds stående medel.
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