Second Strike - The pulse-pounding 2025 thriller from the no.1 bestselling SAS hero

About the author

Chris Ryan was born in Newcastle.

In 1984 he joined 22 SAS. After completing the year-long Alpine Guides Course, he was the troop guide for B Squadron Mountain Troop. He completed three tours with the anti-terrorist team, serving as an assaulter, sniper and finally Sniper Team Commander.

Chris was part of the SAS eight-man team chosen for the famous Bravo Two Zero mission during the 1991 Gulf War. He was the only member of the unit to escape from Iraq, where three of his colleagues were killed and four captured, for which he was awarded the Military Medal. Chris wrote about his experiences in his book The One That Got Away, which became an immediate bestseller. Since then he has written over fifty books and presented a number of very successful TV programmes.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Ryan
• Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2025
• EAN: 9781838779795
• ISBN: 978-1-83877-979-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 243 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 516 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage, Espionage & spy thriller, Technothriller, FICTION / Thrillers / Technological, HISTORY / Military / Special Forces, War & combat fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Special & elite forces, Special and elite forces