Closer to Paradise

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>An explosive compelling searingly authentic thriller about the Iraq War.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A stunning first novel by a former SAS officer.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Good Friday 2004 and a US logistics convoy sets out to carry a precious cargo on the long journey from Baghdad to Kuwait. Several hundred kilometres to the south a covert SAS patrol is on the lookout for weapons of mass destruction. Meanwhile the Mahdi Army prepares to launch its ultra-violent insurgency against the Occupying Allies that very day.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Convoy patrol and insurgents all collide with terrifying consequences. With the veneer of civilisation stripped away young men and women are forced to fight a brutal battle for survival reliant only on themselves and their closest comrades. The only rule is there are no rules and civilisation is stripped down to survival of the fittest.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And in the ruthless reality of twenty-first century warfare it's not just about who fights and who survives. It's about trust and betrayal... and some very tempting treasure...</span></p>