Not for the faint-hearted.moreĪnother ‘stand alone’ Ryan adventure, this sees the former SAS man in the familiar terrority of murky British intelligence and secret groups trained in the art of killing. Slater finally figures out the reason behind the mission is to prevent photos of figures involved in atrocities in the Balkans during WWII coming into the public domain. Again his knowledge of weaponry and tactics shines out the scenes in France are excellent (if violent) and the standout for me was Leon, former paratrooper with the French Foreign Legion, who served a few years behind bars and has close links to the Parisian underworld. ![]() Published in 2000 this is one of Ryan’s earlier works, but not his best. Naturally there are reversals but the target is taken out and the mission ends in a firefight at close quarters in a Paris warehouse with a mob of Serbs. Moving from servant to the wealthy to servant of the Establishment, Slater learns the cadre is a hit squad on behalf of HMG and joins a mission to Paris to assassinate an arms dealer and recover a disc of documents. Slater soon discovers that money does not equate with morals or manners and in a drunken state he falls back on an offer of a job from Eve (introduced by former SAS Andreas Van Rijn), now working for a shadowy cadre within MI6. He is dumped as sports master at an exclusive boy’s school outside London after foiling a kidnap attempt on a Saudi student single-handed using extreme force, and joins a London agency providing bodyguards to the rich. Slater soon discovers that money does not equate with morals or manners and in a drunken state he falls back on an offer o Hit List is a stand-alone thriller by Chris Ryan, and follows the fortunes of Neil Slater, a former SAS soldier struggling in his transition to civilian life. Hit List is a stand-alone thriller by Chris Ryan, and follows the fortunes of Neil Slater, a former SAS soldier struggling in his transition to civilian life. There Slater discovers the connection between Robert Maxwell, the arms industry and the origins in Nazism of the government agency who employs him.more A mission When Robert Maxwell is assassinated by an unknown agency, conflicting interests in the arms trade threaten all-out war.Įx-SAS Corporal Pete Slater is trying to make a new life for himself as a teacher, but when he is accidentally caught up in an attempt by terrorists to kidnap one of his pupils, he finds himself sucked back into the world of undercover operations.Ī mission to kill an arms dealer in Paris leads to a high-speed chase across Europe and into Eastern Europe. ![]() Ex-SAS Corporal Pete Slater is trying to make a new life for himself as a teacher, but when he is accidentally caught up in an attempt by terrorists to kidnap one of his pupils, he finds himself sucked back into the world of undercover operations. When Robert Maxwell is assassinated by an unknown agency, conflicting interests in the arms trade threaten all-out war.
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