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Boy Soldier

Rigby

2005320 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2005
first published
  • 2005Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9780385609142
  • 2006CorgiISBN 9780552572439
  • 2007GalaxyISBN 9781405661881
  • 2008Random House Children's Books · ENGISBN 9781407046945
  • 2006Random House Childre · 320 pagesISBN 9780552552219
  • 2005Doubleday · 329 pagesISBN 9780385608039

Gripping, action-packed thriller from the bestselling author of BRAVO TWO ZERO, Andy McNab, and Robert Rigby, veteran of many successful TV screenplays. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers.Danny Watts's grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his Regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail.At least, that's what seventeen-year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows something the army doesn't seem to know. Fergus Watts is alive and in the UK, living in secret under an assumed name - but where? Fergus is Danny's only living relative. Burning with fury and desire for revenge, Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. In doing so he sets in train an explosive sequence of events which throw Danny and Fergus together on the run from the people who want Fergus, and now Danny, dead.Packed with breathtaking action, SAS procedures and surveillance and survival techniques, this is a fast-moving, action-packed thriller for teenagers.

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