From the bestselling author of Mercenary comes another explosive adventure featuring invincible SBS operative John Stratton. Stratton is sent into Yemen to capture a terrorist suspected of possessing ground to air missiles. When the Chinese get involved things go horribly wrong and Stratton finds himself escaping out to sea in the Gulf of Aden. Unfortunately it's not the Royal Navy that picks him up but a band of Somali pirates. But Stratton's capture turns out to be far from a dead-end encounter when he uncovers a plot to bring down dozens of commercial aircraft across the US and Europe in a coordinated attack. But in order to get the information back to his people Stratton has to escape from the pirates and their leader who knows far too much and is prepared to do anything to protect his interests.