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From the bestselling author of STRIKE BACK, Chris Ryan returns with a new action-packed series.

Tough enough? Smart enough? Max will require all his skills just to stay alive as a Special Forces Cadet...

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From the bestselling author of STRIKE BACK, Chris Ryan returns with a new action-packed series.

Tough enough? Smart enough? Max will require all his skills just to stay alive as a Special Forces Cadet...

A top-secret government programme needs a crack team of undercover military operators. They must have awesome levels of determination, endurance and fitness. They must be able to think on their feet. The recruits undergo the most rigorous and testing selection process the modern military can devise. And in order to operate in circumstances where adult forces would be compromised, the recruits must be under sixteen.

Only a few are tough enough and smart enough to make it . . . And once out in the field, they will require all their skills just to stay alive.

Which is what happens when Max Silver, Abby Asher, Lukas Channing and Sami Hakim are sent into an armed siege in an inner-city school . . .

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Ryan, Chris
Chris Ryan was born in 1961 near Newcastle. At the age of 16 he attached himself unofficially to the territorial regiment based at Prudhoe, in Northumberland. In 1984 he joined 22nd SAS and completed three tours, which took him to many parts of the world on operations and exercises. He also worked extensively in the counter-terrorist field, serving as an assaulter, sniper and finally Sniper Team Commander on the Special Projects team.

Chris was part of the SAS eight-man team chosen for the famous Bravo Two Zero mission during the 1991 Gulf War. He was the only member of the unit to escape from Iraq, where three of his colleagues were killed and four captured, for which he was awarded the Military Medal. Chris wrote about his experiences in his book The One That Got Away , which became an immediate bestseller. Since then he has written over fifty books and presented a number of very successful TV programmes.

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