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The Exit Club

This monumental novel of modern warfare is also Shaun Clarke's biggest seller. The Exit Club begins with the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa in 1943 and follows its lead characters through every major SAS campaign, up to the Falklands war of 1982. Epic in its scope, meticulous in its detail, highly controversial in its harsh view of certain aspects of the Regiment's inner workings, The Exit Club is the definitive SAS novel.

Dragon Light

Shaun Clarke's favourite amongst his own novels. SAS Sergeant Mike Kilroy is tasked with rescuing Alice Davis, a captured UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter pilot, along with six imprisoned Special Forces troopers, from Saddam Hussein's heavily guarded underground complex in Baghdad. Travelling across the harshest desert terrain, the best fighting men in the world pull off one spectacular feat after another. But for Kilroy and Alice, it is the war within themselves that they must escape from.

Night Rider

In the year 2002, it is announced that the release of Republican terrorist, ‘Mad’ Mike Houlihan – a known psychopath – has been sanctioned by a naive British Prime Minister, against the wishes of his more astute Cabinet Office Briefing Room (COBR). Former SAS trooper, Steve Lawson, is secretly assigned by COBR to track down Mad Mike and eliminate him.

As Steve goes underground, a stranger in a strange land, emerging from his dark lair at night to hunt down his enemy, he comes to be known among the locals as ‘Night Rider’. In a nail-biting climax, Night Rider and Mad Mike are destined to meet in a final, fatal confrontation.

Reverse Negative

The year is 2005. Europe has fallen into an abyss of lawlessness. William Bannerman, the corrupt commissioner for the Metropolitan Police, is in the process of negotiating a secret deal with Feydal Hussein, one of the world's most notorious gun-runners. Sent secretly to Paris on the direct orders of the Prime Minister to put an end to this deal, SAS officer Tony Brolin is aided by Feydal's mistress, the lovely, though deeply disturbed, Marie-Francoise. When the time for reckoning finally comes, in the hills of Marseilles, the SAS is forced to utilise highly advanced, top-secret weaponry of a kind not used before… and all the skill and courage that they can muster. In this unique thriller, the SAS meets up with science fiction for the first time.

Operation Millennium

Britain is in the grip of Millennium fever. The disenfranchised, disillusioned, die-hard remains of society's forgotten dream are up in arms, with the fearful megalomaniac, Prince, as their leader. After planting several bombs in key London locations, their next target is Buckingham Palace - and the Royal Family! So a Quick Reaction Force (QRF), led by SAS Sergeant Lenny Cusack, is called in to prevent this atrocity from taking place. But time is running out… Operation Millennium is the first SAS novel to place the Regiment in a cyberwar setting - and it grips with a basilik menace.

Red Hand

'In Underworld, his previous novel, Shaun Clarke presented us with a picture of the IRA gangs who since the cease-fire have turned to crime for easy money. Red Hand is the balancing act, the story of corrupt Protestants who come under Clarke's searing scrutiny. Little wonder that he brings to life so evocatively the suffering of a city.' -Newcastle Journal

Underworld

Underworld is the violent and controversial story of how SAS Sergeant Michael ‘Mike’ Burton, two trusted friends, and a single, remarkable woman, Theresa, infiltrate the mean streets of Belfast. Here, with a combination of high technology and human courage, they embark on the ‘neutralisation’ of the most dangerous gangsters in that crime-ridden city.

'A high-octane mixture… the SAS, the IRA and organised crime are the explosive ingredients of Shaun Clarke's latest thriller. Forget the subtitles - Clarke grabs you by the throat in the opening pages and refuses to let go.' -Yorkshire Evening Post

Green Light

An uneasy peace reigns in the scarred province of Northern Ireland. The former freedom fighters on both sides suddenly find themselves living in a world that they are ill equipped to deal with, unemployed and despised symbols of past crimes… until they are contacted by the Russian Mafia, which wishes to merge with them and gain access to their vast arsenal of hidden weapons… Now a former SAS man and bank-robber - 'Coogan' to his friends and enemies alike - must go into the province, sink into the underworld, and stop this unholy alliance before blood starts to run in the streets again.

The Opium Road

The Opium Road, also known as the Road of Death. High above the snowline of the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, a tormented Georgian, Dmitry Petrov, rules one of the world's most fearsome regions and longs for oblivion… Two thousands miles away, in the Brecon Beacons, Wales, SAS Captain Hugh Scott prepares for a top-secret mission that will bring him into mortal conflict with Dmitry… And in a dark and freezing cave, trapped by snow and ice, a young woman, Lalya, once beautiful and proud but now living like a savage, thinks of Dmitry Petrov with loathing… In the freezing white-out of a Russian winter, hell is about to be unleashed.