Liberation Day — Andy McNab

Former Special Air Service agent Nick Stone sets his sights on al-Qaida in his fifth adventure and bestseller, Liberation Day.

If Nick Stone wasn't so desperate for his American citizenship, he probably wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job with the CIA, but the offer of a new life in the United States and the chance to share it with Carrie, the woman he's fallen in love with, is one he cannot refuse.
The job seems simple enough â€" and he is certainly skilled enough. Infiltrate the hostile, violent republic of Algeria, kill a money-laundering businessman, and bring back his severed head.
Stone knows there are some questions you don't ask, but as events spin out of control he realizes there is vital information he hasn't been told. Lurking beneath the glamorous exterior of the south of France is a dirty drugs war â€" and Stone is thrown into the middle of it. And there he is faced with his toughest dilemma yet…