Mission Three: Die Trying

Extreme: Hard Target #3

by Chris Ryan

Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier... Chris Ryan Extreme Dispatched to a postwar Belgrade crawling with criminals and bad memories, Joe Gardner is on a collision course with his one-time Regiment friend John Bald. Garder plans to put a stop to Bald once and for all. But with the Russian mafya and Italian mob closing in, is Gardner too late? If he fails, tens of thousands will die.

86 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 20, 2011

About the author

Colin Armstrong (b. 1961), usually known by the pen-name Chris Ryan, is a British author, television presenter, security consultant and former Special Air Service sergeant.
After the publication of fellow patrol member Andy McNab's Bravo Two Zero in 1993, Ryan published his own account of his experiences during the Bravo Two Zero mission in 1995, entitled The One That Got Away. Since retiring from the British Army Ryan has published several fiction and non-fiction books, including Strike Back, which was subsequently adapted into a television series for Sky 1, and co-created the ITV action series Ultimate Force. He has also presented or appeared in numerous television documentaries connected to the military or law enforcement.

Reviews

[Kerry · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a good book, but the more I work my way through them the more I resent the whole having to pay 4 times to get the whole book.

[Lezers van bibliotheek de Priool · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dit boek kan niet.
Er gebeuren onmogelijke toestanden.
Review door een lezer van bibliotheek 'de Priool' -Bocholt.

[Kelly Hine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cheesy dialogue but quality story

[Misha Erementchouk · Rating 1 out of 5]

Couldn't get farther than about one fifth of the book. The world presented there overlaps with the real world only over cliches and, therefore, the conflict between good guys and villains simply doesn't build up. For instance, whenever Kalashnikov gun is mentioned it's always AK-47. Even security guys of a very powerful mafioso carry them. This made me chuckle. Why not muskets?

Things that don't agree with the real world are generously planted in the book. As a result, it's difficult to make a coherent picture of what's going on, and eventually I gave up.