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  • Shadow Kill

  • Strike Back, Book 2
  • By: Chris Ryan
  • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
  • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (586 ratings)

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Shadow Kill

By: Chris Ryan
Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
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Summary

The lot of an SAS man is not always a happy one.

Strikeback hero John Porter is sent on a mission with Regimental scallywag John Bald. Where Porter plays it by the book, Bald will always want to break the rules. They are sent to Sierra Leone to extract Ronald Soames, a former CEO of the Regiment and now right-hand man to the President. But when Porter and Bald arrive, the Englishman has disappeared, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.

Rebels are threatening to take over the country and its diamond mines - and to massacre all foreigners. Porter and Bald find themselves fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Regiment psychopath, who is already embedded in the country. But it soon becomes clear that the Firm has lied to them about the true nature of the mission.

What seems at first to be a battle to control Sierra Leone's diamond mines will turn out to be about a much greater evil - and with a trail that leads back to both Westminster and the Kremlin.

©2017 Chris Ryan (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton
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Chris Ryan at his best.

Another excellent book by my favourite writer Chris Ryan, full of action and atmosphere. 🎃

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Great book

Fantastic story enjoyed every signal chapter, one of those books you just can’t put down

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Couldn't stop listening!

Fast icing action that had plenty of twists. I'm enjoying the books in this series

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Not his best book

I've listened to all his stories as well as Andy mcnabs. This story carries on from his last novel but is just lacking in places. However I may just be spoiled as his other works are brilliant. So even if this is your first. Listen to the ready to make your own mind up.

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Excellent tale, very gripping

Well read, good characterisation. Nice twist at end. Each individual really well outlined in character.

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No nonsense entertainment

Good listen from start to finish. Narrator is great and the story is entertaining, enjoying the whole strike back series.

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Not what I expected

Chris Ryan at his best. Normal operations for Bold and Porter, this time in Africa, plenty of action, then a rather surprising ending. I'd waited a while for this book to come out. Narration was OK as well. Lost my audible connection for a while ... the suspense was agony. I was not disappointed and will hope for more in this series.

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Shadow kill

Very good book and very well read what with all the different bastions I can't spell

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Very good

I got to the end of it and realised I had been hardly put it down
Usual cliches but fast paced and enjoyable

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Is this realy by Chris Ryan?

Although I enjoyed the read, the writing style did not convince me that this was solely written by Chris Ryan. I've read many of his books, but this one did not feel quite right. There were, for example, too many references to "blades". There were many other terms included which did not ring true. Still wworth a read though.

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