Strike Back [Paperback] Ryan, Chris

John Porter is ex-SAS, washed up, and drowning in regret. Five years ago, a hostage rescue in Iraq went sideways — someone died, and Porter took the fall. Now he's driving a minicab in south London, trying to forget. Then the past kicks down his door: the journalist taken hostage back in Iraq is alive, and British intelligence wants Porter to go back in and finish what he started. Chris Ryan — former SAS trooper turned bestselling thriller writer — knows exactly how these missions feel, and it shows. This is brutal, fast-moving military fiction with operational detail that feels lived-in rather than Googled. The kind of book that makes you miss your stop on the train because you need to know what happens next. For fans of Andy McNab, Vince Flynn, or anyone who likes their action fiction grounded in real tradecraft.