SAS trooper Aidan Snow is in charge of training a new Polish unit when he is called to lead the barely-trained men into an operation to foil a bank robbery.
Disaster strikes when the criminals blow the convoy to hell, and Snow is left fighting for his life in a car’s wreckage.
A green-eyed soldier stands over him and watches what he believes are Snow’s last breaths; but he doesn’t pull the trigger.
Ten years on and Snow is teaching in Ukraine, keeping a low profile.
But events will force Snow into a life-or-death chase.
The green-eyed man, Taurus Pashinski – also known as the Bull – is employed by old military contacts to help smuggle arms and drugs over the border of Ukraine.
A young, vengeful ex-soldier is drawn into the Bull’s plot when he persuades him that two British investors are his older brother’s killers.
The murders will spark a manhunt in Britain and a series of dramatic events in Ukraine which will drag Snow and his friends into deeper and deeper trouble.
With crooked intelligence officers, ambitious businessmen and bloodthirsty ex-military, Ukraine rapidly becomes a killing zone.
Has Aidan Snow still got what it takes to come out of retirement and face the Bull?
What is the Bull really after, and what will he do to get it?
Will the ex-SAS soldier be able to defeat his old nemesis before he destroys everything Snow holds dear?
‘Cold Blood’ is the gripping prequel to ‘Cold Black’, an international and contemporary thriller.
Praise for Alex Shaw:
'Shaw’s writing sizzles across the page like the flame on a short fuse racing to detonation. Fans of Clancy, McNab, Ryan and Leather, will love Aidan Snow.' – Matt Hilton bestselling author of the Joe Hunter thrillers.
‘He won’t be stopped now. The book will become popular among Kyiv’s expats; some of them will even recognize themselves.’ - Kyiv Post
‘A perfect blend of spy fiction and political thriller.’ - Matt Lynn, best-selling author of the Death Force thrillers.
Alex Shaw spent the second half of the 1990s in Kyiv, Ukraine, teaching and running his own business consultancy before being head-hunted for a division of Siemens. The next few years saw him doing business for the company across the former USSR, the Middle East, and Africa.
He is a member of the International Thriller Writers organisation, the Crime Writers Association and is the author of the Aidan Snow SAS thrillers
Alex, his wife and their two sons divide their time between homes in Kyiv, Ukraine and Worthing, England.
Alex can be contacted via his website www.alexshaw.com or follow him on twitter: @alexshawhetman
Originally published as 'Hetman'.
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