The Great Satan: Shadow Squadron #1 - Softcover

Black, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480216534 ISBN 13: 9781480216532

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

The first of his compelling new Shadow Squadron series, best selling author David Black has produced his own fictional nightmare scenario: What if the Iraqi weapons that were said to be dismantled in the late 1990s included the ultimate WMD? And what if the deposing of Saddam Hussein left one of his most ruthless military leaders still at large, actively seeking a customer for Iraq’s only nuclear bomb? In the bitterly divisive aftermath of the Iraq War, the former political leaders of the UK and USA are condemned as deceitful and mendacious, allegedly fabricating excuses for their martial actions. In The Great Satan, author Black and his main character - Special Forces team leader Pat Farrell - are so close as to be synonymous, both having worked as London taxi drivers during a tenure as Territorial SAS members, ready to be called into action in time of national emergency. The principal difference is that the author is now retired from the forces, while his fictional counterpart is left to contend with 'the real world . . . with direct relevance to the grisly global horrors being perpetrated today.' In The Great Satan, the current world situation meets the page-turning action prose of pulp fiction. The central antagonist is Colonel Jamal Al-Mahdi, veteran of Saddam s campaign against the Kurds, who transports the ultimate hidden WMD to the UK. The nuclear bomb that is the greatest Satan of all, awaiting deployment by a group of young British jihadi at a point where we can only hope fiction diverges entirely from fact . . .

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

OUT NOW in Kindle & paperback! - The sequel to The Great Satan - Dark Empire -
Pat Farrell and his men are back in action - in Africa's war-torn Congo...

About the Author:

Married with a teenage son and now retired from the military, David Black lives and writes in the rural county of Hertfordshire, UK. 

He has also written a fascinating autobiography of his early military years, which among other things looks at his service in war-weary Northern Ireland, fighting against the IRA in the 70's. The second half of "Playing for England" recounts his incredible and sometimes highly dangerous adventures during British army reserve SAS selection on the wild and unforgiving mountains of south Wales.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1480216534
• ISBN 13: 9781480216532
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192