TY - BOOK AU - Ryan,Chris TI - Masters of war SN - 9781444706499 PY - 2014///, c2013 CY - London PB - Coronet KW - Great Britain KW - Army KW - Special Air Service KW - Fiction KW - MI6 KW - Syria KW - History KW - Civil War, 2011- KW - Suspense fiction KW - War stories N1 - Originally published: London : Coronet, 2013 N2 - In Paris, an elderly man is assassinated as he takes his morning walk. In the war-torn cities of Syria, government forces wage a bloody war against their own people. The Russians are propping up the government, the French are backing one rebel fraction and the British are backing another. And in north Africa, young SAS trooper Danny Black is coming to the end of a gruelling tour of duty, or so he thinks. Danny has a new mission. An MI6 agent needs to make contact with Syrian rebel forces, and also with the private military contractors who are - unofficially - training this rebel faction as it struggles to bring down their government and establish a new regime that will be favourable to British business interests ER -