An Explosive Special Forces Thriller Now teaching at an International school in Ukraine, former SAS trooper Aidan Snow has laid the nightmares of his past to rest. But when after ten years Snow meets again the man who put a gun to his head and ended his military career his past becomes very real. Told by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) that his would be tormenter is dead Snow tries to forget... 'Attacked' by an unknown adversary, 'Framed' for two high profile assassinations and 'Hunted' by the Ukrainian Security Service, Snow is torn from the life he has worked so hard to build and must once again rely on his SAS training in an attempt to clear his name. Discovering a mercenary brigade made up of former Soviet Spetsnaz soldiers Snow trusts only himself to stop them and save those he cares about. Snow is left one step ahead of the authorities with no one to watch his back. In a Firefight, Pray for SNOW....
Genre: FICTION / Action & AdventureHetman was published in 2009 and gained critical acclaim in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA). 2010 it became a #1 UK Kindle bestseller and a #8 US Kindle bestseller in the genre of Mens Adventure and War.
PROLOGUE September 1996. SchreinerBank, Poznan, Poland
He set his watch, pulled down the black balaclava and stepped out of the van. As one the men stormed the bank. “Na Podloge Natychmiast!” On the floor now – the Polish was precise, clipped and accented. With a swift bark from a Kalashnikov the sole SchreinerBank guard was neutralised.
Shocked customers screamed and threw themselves down as two men in black coveralls pointed their automatic weapons; the dead guard was evidence that they were not afraid to use them. Two other assaulters wearing empty back packs vaulted over the counter and headed towards the safe. A fifth and sixth sat across the street in two high powered BMW saloons. Parked facing down cobbled side streets; the cars were poised for a speedy exfiltration. At either end of the main street identical Opel vans stood, packed with Russian made plastic explosives. No more words were exchanged as each member of the assault team took up their prearranged positions. Bull had watched and waited for months for this shipment to arrive, had persuaded an ‘eager’ government employee to give him the building’s schematics and was now ready to collect his four million Deutsche Marks. A stunned silence took hold of the banking hall broken only by the whimpering of a teenage youth. Bull looked down at the boy with disgust. Seven years ago and such a boy would have been his to command in Afghanistan.
Police Training Area, Poznan, Poland
Aidan Snow sat on the wooden bench and stirred his tea. If it wasn’t for the sound of gunfire and smell of cordite then the training camp would have been idyllic. As part of a four man SAS training team Snow had been in Poland for over two months advising the Polish Police Pododdziay Antyterrorystyczne (counter terrorist unit).
