Product Description

A riveting military action adventure novel  - Band of Brothers meets Andy McNab in a story of hard nosed mercenaries.

In Helmand Province, in southern Afghanistan, the British are fighting an increasingly desperate battle to bring a resurgent Taliban under control. The British commander knows the Taliban control the heroin trade, which brings in vast amounts of money for weapons. They back a covert mercenary unit to steal the drug lords' money. The deal: they will get intelligence and logistical support from the British Army, and in return they get to keep the money. The unit is put together by DEF's best man, Steve West; vastly experienced and ex SAS. But the mission goes horribly wrong. The men from Death Inc. find themselves fighting a desperate rearguard action through the lawless badlands of southern Afghanistan, and al-Queda-controlled northern Pakistan...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #420650 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

About the Author

Matt Lynn has written a number of successful novels which have been translated into many languages. As a journalist, he worked for The Sunday Times for many years and now writes a column for Bloomberg in the US and is a regular contributor to The Spectator. He lives in Goudhurst, Kent with his wife and children.

Customer Reviews

DEATH FARCE
Absolutely one of the worst books I have ever read. Inaccurate, unrealistic, with a plot line as thin as a kids game, by about page fifty I didn't care what happened to this unlikely pack of wild geese. Not being one to quit though I soldiered on (sic)to the bitter and tragically obvious end. By which time I was actually shouting "Rubbish!" at the cover of a book. I can only surmise that the "professional" reviewers of this ridiculous tome were either paid rather handsomely or were good mates with the author. Either way they should have read it before writing their reviews.
I'd like to offer a balanced view though. So in fairness it had a cool cover design for a book of this genre....there, thats it.

Dogs of War and Dirty Dozen in one...
In general well written and fluent.
But ... so many inconsistencies and so many errors in the art of war make this book lose the 3 stars.
For someone who looks for adventure type of a book (a teenager?) - may be good enough.
For someone with some military background - avoid - you'll be frustrated and won't reach the end of the book.

Still, there is something about the book as I read it to the end, but... just be aware.

Very Poor
This is probably one of the worst books I have ever read. It is poorly written and researched. I'm all for escapism but this is in the realms of fantasy. There are so many inaccuracies in this book that it ceased to be enjoyable. I enjoy reading military thrillers as they usually have a sense of realism in the tradecraft described. This on the other hand has the author making it up as he goes along. For example the practice of having one person zero everybody else's weapon is ludicrous. The fact that this supposed crack unit only trained together for 2 days and most of that was spent drinking vodka, is laughable. It gets worse as the story goes on. The characters, as well as the story is unbelievable, it has no depth, so ultimately you don't really care what happens. The author has supposedly ghost written stories for soldiers turned novelists. It is clear he has learnt nothing from them.