Strike Back

Scott is ordered to the Kenyan desert to secure the transfer of a Libyan functionary seeking asylum. Stonebridge is back in the UK training Section 20 recruits – a job that takes a perilous twist when a soldier cracks.

Surprised to discover that a Waabri hostage named Rachel Dalton is in fact a top-ranking military intelligence operative, Scott, now accompanied by Stonebridge and Richmond, staves off a hostile onslaught in Mogadishu.

A shaken Stonebridge joins Scott in Niger to track down Axmali, a radical Muslim cleric now in possession of the triggers, but they're hindered by a suspicious CIA air strike and local hostility.

Holed up with Markunda and a wounded Othmani in a remote Algerian farmhouse, Scott and Stonebridge prepare for an assault by the forces of El Soldat, who seeks to take possession of the triggers and his half-brother.

On the trail of the missing triggers, Section 20 relocates to Cape Town, where Knox's henchmen hope to force an expatriate nuclear expert, Peter Evans, to cooperate by kidnapping his daughter and son.

With Evans conscripted to work for Knox, Stonebridge sees an opportunity to locate the facility by connecting with Knox's daughter Ava. Scott tries to convince a Mossad assassin to follow her conscience and disappear.