Heroes of the South Atlantic. Shaun Clarke
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Heroes of the South Atlantic
SHAUN CLARKE
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
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First published in Great Britain by 22 Books/Bloomsbury Publishing plc 1993
Copyright © Bloomsbury Publishing plc 1993
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Cover photographs © Jim Gibson/Alamy (helicopter); Shutterstock.com (textures)
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Source ISBN: 9780008154851
Ebook Edition © November 2015 ISBN: 9780008154868
Version: 2015-10-15
Contents
OTHER TITLES IN THE SAS OPERATION SERIES
Phil Ricketts was having another nightmare based on fact. He was reliving with dreadful clarity that moment the previous year when, in a shit-hole of a housing estate in Andersonstown, West Belfast, Lampton had made his mistake and copped it.
They had moved out at dawn for a carefully planned house assault after being informed by the ‘green slime’, the Intelligence Corps, that a couple of IRA men were being hidden in the estate and preparing to snipe at a British Army foot patrol. As Ricketts sat between his mates in the cramped rear of the armoured ‘pig’ taking them along the Falls Road, secure in his assault waistcoat, checking his Heckler & Koch MP5 and adjusting his gas mask, he glanced out the back and was reminded again of just how much he detested being in Northern Ireland. This wasn’t a real war with an enemy to respect, but rather, a dirty game of hide and seek, a demeaning police action, a bloody skirmish against faceless killers, mean-faced adolescents, hate-filled children and contemptuous housewives. Christ, Ricketts loathed it.
He was filled with this loathing as the pig took him through the mean streets of Belfast in dawn’s grey light – past terraced