![]() Danny will learn who the masters of war, the men who call the shots, really are.ĭanny discovers a world where death is dispensed by the highest bidder and individuals will betray anybody if the price is right. An MI6 agent needs to make contact with Syrian rebel forces, and also with the private military contractors who are - unofficially - training this rebel faction as it struggles to bring down their government and establish a new regime that will be favourable to British business interests. In Paris, an elderly man is assassinated as he takes his morning wal. Read 65 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In north Africa, young SAS trooper Danny Black is coming to the end of a gruelling tour of duty, or so he thinks.ĭanny has a new mission. Masters of War by Chris Ryan Masters of War book. The Russians are propping up the government, the French are backing one rebel fraction and the British are backing another. In the war-torn cities of Syria, government forces wage a bloody war against their own people. An elderly man is assassinated as he takes his morning walk. The first book in the hugely popular Danny Black series by the creator of the hit TV show Strikeback. ![]()
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In 2005, he edited an anthology of stories, “ Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules.” Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name the Talent Family and have written several plays, including “Stump the Host” “Stitches” “One Woman Shoe,” which received an Obie Award “Incident at Cobbler’s Knob” and “The Book of Liz,” which was published in book form by the Dramatists Play Service. ![]() He is the author of “ Barrel Fever” (1994) and “ Holidays on Ice” (1997), as well as numerous collections of personal essays: “ Naked” (1997), “ Me Talk Pretty One Day” (2000), “ Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim” (2004), “ When You Are Engulfed in Flames” (2008), “ Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls” (2013), “ Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)” (2017), “ Calypso” (2018), “ The Best of Me” (2020), and “ A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)” (2021). 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