It is 1974 & the summer of love is drawing to a close. Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the secondary school
... Every summer the four Ryan children play in the ruins of Fernscourt, the once-grand house on the bank of the river.
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Read by Jonathan Keeble. Former SAS Captain Will Jackson is a man with nothing to lose. A veteran of the most dangerous missions & his life torn apart the day a terrorist attack killed his family, he leads a life of grief-stricken obscurity. People higher up the chain of command have other plans, however. They're in a mess, & unless they sort it out, thousands of innocent people will pay the price. & so they make Jackson an offer that will take him straight back into a brutal theatre of war. Only one person can help prevent the disaster that is waiting to happen, & that person is being held by the Taliban insurgency in the depths of Afghanistan. As Will prepares to undertake this final mission, he does so in the knowledge that it will stop a devastating terrorist attack
- as well as achieve an ulterior motive of his own. But in the murky world of international terrorism, things are very seldom what they seem. Will starts to learn that nobody can be trusted; & that sometimes, you just have to fight fire with fire.