Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle against the IRA
By: Mark Urban
3.92
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In this book, defence specialist and war correspondent Mark Urban explores covert operations agains…
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1. Red Storm Rising
By: Tom Clancy
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Audio Cassette
"Allah!"With that shrill cry, three Muslim terrorists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, creating a … read more
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2. Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan, #7)
By: Tom Clancy
4.09
Format: 990 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small grou… read more
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"A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel."-Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan, #7)
"never pick up a baby to kiss it," trent said. "they always puke on you, and somebody always gets a picture. always kiss the baby in the mom's arms."-Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan, #7)
" Visto despuès, podría parecer un modo extraño de empezar una guerra. Solo uno de los implicados sabía de lo que de verdad sucedía, y por casualidad "-Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan, #7)
"Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are."-Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan, #7)
3. Executive Orders (Jack Ryan, #8)
By: Tom Clancy
4.11
Format: 1273 pages, Paperback
The President is dead—and the weight, literally, of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in To… read more
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"He had to grow his own NCOs."-Tom Clancy, Executive Orders (Jack Ryan, #8)
"A commander's pride got his soldiers dead."-Tom Clancy, Executive Orders (Jack Ryan, #8)
"The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job."-Tom Clancy, Executive Orders (Jack Ryan, #8)
"Not every story started off big enough to notice."-Tom Clancy, Executive Orders (Jack Ryan, #8)
4. The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan Universe, #7)
By: Tom Clancy
3.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East -- as Jack Ryan lays the groundwork for a plan that… read more
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5. The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan Universe, #5)
By: Tom Clancy
3.94
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Two men possess vital data on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One of them is CARDINAL--A… read more
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6. GURKHA: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas
By: Alexander Norman , Kailash Limbu
3.74
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
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7. Contact
By: A.F.N. Clarke
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
The new eBook edition of CONTACT about AFN Clarke's two tours in Northern Ireland with Britain's el… read more
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8. Fifty Dead Men Walking
By: Martin McGartland
3.50
Format: None pages,
For four years, Martin McGartland lived a remarkable double life, a life not even known to the moth… read more
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9. Killing Rage
By: Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Paperback
Since the 1970s, people have been murdering their neighbors in Northern Ireland. This book is the t… read more
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10. Shoot to Kill: From 2 Para to the SAS
By: Michael Asher
3.72
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
Michael Asher's investigation into the famous SAS operation, THE REAL BRAVO TWO ZERO was one of the… read more
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11. Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan Universe, #6)
By: Tom Clancy
3.88
Format: 588 pages, Mass Market Paperback
At what point does crimanal activity threaten national security? When can a nation respond to it as… read more
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12. Ghost Force (Admiral Arnold Morgan, #9)
By: Patrick Robinson
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
America, Britain, and Russia are drawn into a battle for a gigantic oil strike on the desolate Falk… read more
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13. The Battle for the Falklands
By: Max Hastings , Simon Jenkins
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on t… read more
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14. Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
By: Val McDermid
4.25
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Val McDermid is one of the finest crime writers we have, whose novels have captivated millions of r… read more
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15. Patriot Games (Jack Ryan Universe, #2)
By: Tom Clancy
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguish… read more
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16. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
By: Mick Herron
4.37
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more
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"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
17. The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25)
By: Lee Child
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One m… read more
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"Only a fool would be dishonest about that could be disproved in a matter of seconds."-Lee Child, The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25)
18. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
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By: Roger Burnage
4.27
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
With French Revolutionary agents travelling freely but secretly between Ireland and England and war… read more
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20. Angel of Death (Hidden Norfolk #12)
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4.53
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
An innocent man has everything to fear... When the partial remains of a young woman are unearthe… read more
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21. SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story
By: Des Powell
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
'An incredible story, and so well told' Bear Grylls'Honesty, integrity and real experience that put… read more
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22. Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows
By: Jason Fox
4.14
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This is a true story. The events depicted took place during the last decade in an unnamed warzone. … read more
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"All across the mission, dozens of horror stories were being written. I just had to deal with mine."-Jason Fox, Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows
"The fact that I was considered part of that elite group, and the idea that other people could rely on me, too, felt life-affirming... I told myself, Mate, you’re good at a job where you have to work …"-Jason Fox, Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows
23. Double Agent: My Secret Life Undercover in the IRA
By: Kevin Fulton
4.08
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
'"I am a British soldier," I told my reflection. "I am a British soldier and I'm saving lives. I'm … read more
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24. Fishers of Men - The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland
By: Rob Lewis
3.66
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
Fishers of Men is the true account of secret operations in Northern Ireland carried out by the Brit… read more
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25. Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GC
By: Alistair Kerr
3.72
Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the updated second edition of Betrayal The Murder of Robert Nairac GC. New information has … read more
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26. You'd Be Nuts Too!
By: Steve Brown
4.32
Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition
When your two earliest memories are of your older brother being thrown against a wall by a drug-cra… read more
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27. Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle against the IRA
By: Mark Urban
3.92
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In this book, defence specialist and war correspondent Mark Urban explores covert operations agains… read more
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28. Bullet Magnet
By: Mick Flynn
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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29. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
By: Mick Herron
4.30
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the … read more
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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
30. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
31. A Winter in Belfast: Northern Ireland 26th November 1976 – 16th March 1977: D Company 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment
By: David Ellis
4.13
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
A Winter in Belfast is a frank diary transcript of a young officer’s experiences in The Parachute R… read more
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