Dark Forces
About the book:
Dark Forces book
Author: Stephen Leather
Series: Spider Shepherd Thriller
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publish date: (October 18, 2016)
ISBN-10: 1473604060
ISBN-13: 978-1473604063
Pages: 400 eBook pages can be different
Language: English
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Description
The man’s name was Mohammed al-Hussain, a common enough name in Syria. But the Mohammed
al-Hussain lying prone on the roof of the two-storey building was no ordinary man. He was a sniper,
one of the best in the world. He had 256 kills to his credit, each one meticulously recorded in the
small cloth-bound notebook he kept in his back pocket. Each entry detailed the nature of the target, the
location and the distance. Almost all of his kills were Syrian government soldiers.
He was twenty-two years old, his skin the colour of weak coffee with plenty of milk. He had soft
brown eyes that belonged more to a lovesick spaniel than the tried and tested assassin he was. His
beard was long and bushy but his nails were neatly clipped and glistened as if they had been
varnished. Around his head was a knotted black scarf with the white insignia of Islamic State, the
caliphate that claimed authority over all Muslims around the world. His weapon was lying on a
sandbag.
When he had first started sniping, he had used a Russian-made Dragunov SVD rifle, accurate up to
six hundred metres. It was a lightweight and reliable weapon, capable of semi-automatic fire and
equipped with a ten-round magazine. Most of his kills back then had been at around two hundred
metres. His commander had spotted his skill with the weapon and had recommended him for
specialist training. He was pulled off the front line and spent four weeks in the desert at a remote
training camp.
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