Strike Hard — Alex London

Harry Stanton has done everything-army, SAS, freelance, mercenary. When his former colonel asks him to come back into the fold and join 13 Company, he agrees out of friendship and loyalty. But assimilating into a tight-knit group isn't easy, especially when his past is so suspect. But they will have to find a way to work with each other, when their new assignment comes swift and urgently. Evelyn Darcy is many things-linguistic savant, translator, granddaughter of 13 Company's founder. Even so, there is no discernible reason why she is kidnapped from a government ball in the Green Zone of Iraq, especially not when there are other, more high value targets available. But as a favor to their founder, 13 Company will come for her. Only for Harry and Evelyn's fates to intertwine. Because at the government ball, Evelyn accidentally acquired knowledge of al-Muddathari, a reclusive terrorist and warlord suspected of infiltrating the British government. She's the only one who has heard is voice, and can identify him. But Harry may be the only one who can predict how al-Muddathari will move next, because he once took orders from the terrorist's middlemen. With evidence that al-Muddathari is getting ready for a big attack on British forces, and with a mole hidden somewhere inside the British intelligence chain of command, Evelyn and Harry will join with 13 Company to bring down the terrorist's network, even if bringing him down will hit close to home for both.