Strike Back Av Chris Ryan

<p><b>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.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>Colonel Peregrine Collinson was involved in the same raid. He was awarded a Military Cross and is heralded as a military hero.<br><br>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?</p>