The Sixteen: The Sensational Story of Britain's Top Secret Military Assassination Squad

✍ Scribed by Urwin, John

• Book ID: 108736595
• Publisher: John Blake Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 308 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781784183073

✦ Synopsis

'WE'VE GONE TO A LOT OF TROUBLE TO GET YOU HERE. THERE IS ONE VERY IMPORTANT THING THAT YOU MUST UNDERSTAND: NOTHING OF WHAT YOU SEE OR HEAR CAN EVER BE REPEATED. OFFICIALLY, THIS PLACE DOES NOT EXIST.'

As an eighteen-year-old called up for National Service, John Urwin thought his would be an ordinary tour of duty. He had no idea that when he was posted to Cyprus he would be recruited into a top-secret unit called 'the Sixteen', whose task was to assassinate key figures throughout the Middle East.

He has never spoken about this elite unit in the 40 years since it was disbanded, but now he breaks his silence to tell their full amazing story.

No government has ever officially confirmed the existence of the Sixteen and nothing has ever been revealed about this mysterious group. Their training in unarmed combat and weaponry was said to have surpassed that of the SAS.

His description of their four key missions is explosive and a riveting account of the...