**A historical adventure chronicling the exploits of the Special Boat
Squadron, the seaborne raiders who, by strength and guile, carried out
World War Two's most daring covert operations.**From this moment on,
you and your men, you don't exist. Formed in the darkest hours of the
Second World War, as nation after nation fell before the unstoppable
Axis advance, the task of the SBS was to strike back at an enemy no army
could meet in the field. Trained in sabotage and surveillance, the
Special Boat Squadron raided deep behind enemy lines, sowing chaos and
capturing much-needed intelligence. Soldiers, adventurers and rogues,
their methods were unorthodox, their success rate unprecedented.
Operation Anglo, 31 August 1942. Beneath the waves of the
Mediterranean, HMS Traveller closes in on the coast of Rhodes. Aboard,
eight SBS commandos check their weapons as they prepare to infiltrate
and sabotage two Axis bomber fields. Only two of the eight commandos
will make it back to alive. Ex-Black Watch Sgt Jim Hunter will be one of
the lucky ones, but what he will face next will make Operation Anglo
look like a cakewalk. Reviewers on Iain Gale: 'A fast fit fighting
yarn that transports you to the deadly hillsides of wartime Crete.'
Quentin Letts on SBS
'A powerful novel of men at war. A triumph.' Bernard Cornwell on Four
Days in June
'Very exciting.' Daily Telegraph on the Jack Steele series
