Duncan served in scorched deserts in Iraq and Afghanistan, hid in flooded jungle trenches for days on end, and watched soldiers die from hypothermia guarding Norway’s frozen fjords from Russian invasion. I was doing very much the same job as the protagonist – managing journalists who wanted to go where the action was without getting killed.

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Formed in 1863, we are a pub retailer and brewer with over 160 years of hospitality and brewing expertise. This is the 30th book, but considering Alex has survived "Kill Alex Cross" before, chances are he survives this one.

Duncan penned the scene after his own “sixth sense” saved his life during a stake-out in Northern Ireland. At 19 years of age, he attended SBS selection in Poole Dorset and was one of nine Marines to successfully complete the course out of 147 men. Woodward and Falconer was founded in 2001 and has built up a group of 6 high quality food-led pubs located in Chester, the Wirral and North Wales. And so begins a nail-biting, claustrophobic and explosive thriller that will ultimately lead British operative John Stratton to the Styx penitentiary, America’s undersea prison.

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We very much look forward to working with the excellent team’s at all four pubs as we continue to develop our food-led business”. Stratton and his American counterpart Hank chase after the bus in a Range Rover to stop Barovsky from deploying the device. The story was pretty much true-ish up to the point where Hank, the Navy SEAL, goes on the operation. Against his own principles, the special operative becomes emotionally involved and decides to join the popular uprising. Navigating Conflict I was invited to do a podcast with Eoin Walker under his ‘Navigating Conflict’ banner.NOTE: The two extracted sites will be operated by Jeremy Woodward as new companies but will have no association with Woodward and Falconer. He was the youngest ever member of the SBS and spent 11 years in the lesser-known counterpart of the SAS. Meanwhile, in an Elizabethan country house, SBS operative Stratton has been seconded to bodyguard work and is bored by the lack of challenge.

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In Afghanistan, elite operative John Stratton leads a raid on a remote compound, leaving no survivors.At age 19 he went to the SBS (special boat services) selection in Poole Dorset and was only one of nine Marines (out of a class of 147 other men) to successfully complete the challenging SBS course. There is a speedboat chase with heavy gunfire, before the final action sequence, which takes place in London with the poison device loaded onto a double-decker bus whose destination is shown as Clapham Common (so as to blend in). Duncan Falconer is the chosen pseudonym of a popular British author of the popular John Stratton series.

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The box of money was based on a true story I had heard and so I stitched the pieces together and placed the finale in Fallujah, which was a howling battle I watched from the side-lines. Paris – next stop Hollywood Susan soon warmed to the idea of writing a book about her life, in particular revealing her secret love affair with her French Foreign Legion boss, General Koenig.The story grew entirely from a comment one of the scientists made to me one day which was along the lines of ‘you lot would be nothing without our gadgets’. He spent most of his time with MAT engaging in multiple exercises that involved the capturing of tankers and oil rigs. The title role in the movie is played by Greenwich-born Dominic Cooper, 39, best known for Mama Mia! However, he is unaware that the fight is not just against the local government – the CIA are very much involved. A brilliant page turning thriller with many plot twists to keep the reader entertained, my first novel by this author but will definitely be looking for more of his work.