Zero 22: Danny Black Thriller 8 – Ryan Chris (2021)

The SAS is operating covertly in the war-torn badlands of northern Syria, where it expects a gritty, bloody and dangerous mission. But when Regiment legend Danny Black’s unit, codenamed Zero 22, is assigned a routine operation, nobody expects it to end in compromise and massacre orchestrated by the shadowy Wagner Group, a paramilitary organisation beholden to the Russian president. Back in the UK, Danny discovers that his unit was betrayed by a mole passing high-level military intelligence to the Russians. His first thought is to avenge the men killed during the Zero 22 operation, and he readily accepts a mission to assassinate the man responsible for their deaths. But military headquarters has more complicated plans, and Danny finds himself working with someone from his past whom he never expected to see again. Together they embark on a high-risk, deniable mission requiring all of Danny’s Regiment skills. As the operation unfolds, Danny learns that darker forces are at work. When everything he believes is turned upside down, he realises that what began as an act of revenge is merely one move in a conspiracy that will take him across continents and pit him not only against the highly trained militants of the Wagner Group, but also against the Kremlin, the White House and the insidious machinations of the world’s most powerful men.