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Hard Kills: The Reid Stone Series - SAS Thriller - Book 1
HARD KILLS
A Reid Stone Thriller – Book One
By Samuel James
“They used him. Now he’s going to bury them.”
Reid ‘Breaker’ Stone is an ex-SAS operator with nothing left to prove — and no one left to trust.
When a call comes in from an old unit contact, Stone is pulled back into the shadows. The job is eliminate a terror finance courier quietly, cleanly, off the books. But nothing about this mission is what it seems.
Within hours, the hit team sent to clean up the scene turns on Stone. Betrayed and hunted, he goes off-grid, forced to use every skill the Regiment taught him to survive — and to find out who wants him dead.
As the bodies pile up, Stone uncovers a conspiracy buried deep in the murk of UK and US black budgets — tied to a botched drone strike, a private intelligence firm with blood on its hands, and a secret biological weapons programme tested on civilians under the codename NIGHTFALL.
The deeper he digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Old comrades are being wiped out. The past is catching up. And Stone? He’s not on a mission anymore. He’s on a warpath.
Brutal, gritty, and unflinchingly real — Hard Kills is the start of a new British thriller series packed with tactical authenticity, dark humour, and pulse-pounding action. Perfect for fans of Chris Ryan, Andy McNab and Stephen Leather.
A Reid Stone Thriller – Book One
By Samuel James
“They used him. Now he’s going to bury them.”
Reid ‘Breaker’ Stone is an ex-SAS operator with nothing left to prove — and no one left to trust.
When a call comes in from an old unit contact, Stone is pulled back into the shadows. The job is eliminate a terror finance courier quietly, cleanly, off the books. But nothing about this mission is what it seems.
Within hours, the hit team sent to clean up the scene turns on Stone. Betrayed and hunted, he goes off-grid, forced to use every skill the Regiment taught him to survive — and to find out who wants him dead.
As the bodies pile up, Stone uncovers a conspiracy buried deep in the murk of UK and US black budgets — tied to a botched drone strike, a private intelligence firm with blood on its hands, and a secret biological weapons programme tested on civilians under the codename NIGHTFALL.
The deeper he digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Old comrades are being wiped out. The past is catching up. And Stone? He’s not on a mission anymore. He’s on a warpath.
Brutal, gritty, and unflinchingly real — Hard Kills is the start of a new British thriller series packed with tactical authenticity, dark humour, and pulse-pounding action. Perfect for fans of Chris Ryan, Andy McNab and Stephen Leather.
432 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 18, 2025
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February 18, 2026
Need to switch off critical thinking mode for this one.
Just how many explosives do these lot manage to lug around with them? A bit silly but I enjoyed it enough to pick up book 2, Kill Signal, to see if it perhaps is a little more believable and less super-soldier-esque.
Just how many explosives do these lot manage to lug around with them? A bit silly but I enjoyed it enough to pick up book 2, Kill Signal, to see if it perhaps is a little more believable and less super-soldier-esque.
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