Outcast: The blistering thriller from the No.1 bestselling SAS hero

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Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. Chris Ryan was among the ill-fated team of Bravo Two Zero that patrolled Iraq at the First Gulf war. The patrol’s mission was to find a good LUP and gather intelligence information and set up the OP on the supply route between North-Western Iraq and Baghdad.

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Burke, Jason (26 May 2002). "Battle of SAS gets bloody". The Guardian . Retrieved 31 December 2016. Sergeant Chris Ryan born in 1961 at Rowland Gill is a pseudonym of a retired British special forces operative soldier Colin Armstrong who turned to writing novels later in his life. Chris Ryan came to the limelight for being the only man among the eight on the SAS mission dabbed Bravo Two Zero’s narrow escape from death during the First Gulf War of 1991. In addition to his writing Ryan has contributed to several television series and video games. In 2002 Ryan co-created and appeared in ITV's action series, Ultimate Force, playing the role of Blue Troop leader Staff Sergeant Johnny Bell in the first series. He acted as a military adviser for the video game I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike. [ citation needed] Chris Ryan has since written many books that are both fiction and non-fiction. Chris Ryan is also a very dedicated author who has published a really successful extreme series that was first produced as an eBook. This includes Night Strike, Hard Target and The Most Wanted which is to be published in this December. His other popular books include The Kill Zone, The One That Got Away, Killing For the Company, One Good Turn and the Osama that was published by Coronet in September 2012. Life of Chris RyanFreeman, Simon (16 March 2003). "The new Battle of the Books". The Guardian . Retrieved 31 December 2016. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery - the approximate delivery time is usually between 1-2 business days.

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After leaving the SAS, Ryan wrote The One That Got Away, which covers the account from his patrol report of the Bravo Two Zero mission. Both his and McNab's accounts have been heavily criticised by former territorial SAS member and explorer Michael Asher, who attempted to retrace the patrol's footsteps for TV and claimed to have debunked both accounts with the help of the then-SAS regimental sergeant major Peter Ratcliffe. [10] [11] In the beginning of March 2009, Ryan admitted that John Pilger who was the foreign correspondent discovered his plans of training the Khmer Rogue at the Far East. They were sent home and made to return the 10,000 pounds they had been given to pay for accommodation and food. Bravo Two ZeroEdemariam, Aida (27 October 2008). "The new star of romantic fiction: ex-SAS hardman Chris Ryan". The Guardian . Retrieved 8 January 2010. Chris was born in Rowlands Gill, which is a small village on the north bank of the River Derwent. It has a population of around 6,000 and is around nine miles from the major city of Newcastle in the North of England. Very little is known of Chris's early life - little about his school days, little about his hobbies, little about his family life. What is known is that he attended the secondary school at Hookergate School, which was around three miles from his village of Rolands Gill. The school has since been renamed Thorp Academy. He stayed at Hookergate until he was 16 years old, at which point, instead of going into further education as many of his fellow authors did, which would have been easy as Hookergate School also had a college section to it, he signed up to join the British Army. During his escape, Ryan suffered injuries from drinking water contaminated with nuclear waste. [8] Besides suffering severe muscle atrophy, he lost 36lb (16kg) and did not return to operational duties. Instead, he selected and trained potential recruits, before being honourably discharged from the SAS in 1994. [ citation needed] Unfortunately, I was pretty disappointed. I've read the kind of "airport thrillers" people would compare Ryan to before, and this seems pretty subpar even by that standard.

Outcast: The blistering thriller from the No.1 bestselling

After the publication of fellow patrol member Andy McNab's Bravo Two Zero in 1993, Ryan published his own account of his experiences during the Bravo Two Zero mission in 1995, entitled The One That Got Away.

During the Gulf War, Ryan was a team member of the ill-fated eight-man SAS patrol, with the call sign Bravo Two Zero. The patrol was sent into Iraq to "gather intelligence,... find a good LUP (lying up position) and set up an OP (observation post)" on the main supply route (MSR) between Baghdad and North-Western Iraq, and eventually take out the Scud TELs. [3] :16 But the army wasn't enough for Chris. No, he wanted something special. Chris's dream was to be a member of one of the most elite fighting forces on the planet - the SAS (Special Air Service). Chris's cousin was actually already in the reservist SAS and regularly invited Chris to visit him. Chris tried to join the SAS but reportedly failed the selection process because…