This is the untold, epic story of the single most daring Special Forces operation since World WarTwo: the rescue by the SAS of British soldiers held captive by drug-crazed rebel group The West Side Boys in the Sierra Leone jungle.

Extensive interviews with the hostages and the assault forces have produced this blow-by-blow account, in which Lewis recounts the sights, the smells, the fear, the adrenaline rush of combat, and the soul-shattering confrontations.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Author's Note

Prologue

Capture

Training's Off

Taken Hostage

Rescue Mission

Soldiers of Fortune

The Nightmare Begins

Get the Brits

Dances with Death

This Means War

Lottery of Freedom

Virgin Warriors

The Siege of the Gimp

Riverine Assault

No Escape

Op Certain Death

The Killing Game

The Dead Zone

Proof of Life

Dawn Raiders

A Rude Awakening

Chicken Run

In for the Kill

Salvation

Ten Men Down

Time for a Brew

Return of the Jedi

Endgame

Postscript

Afterword

Appendix 1: Analysis

Appendix 2: Call Signs

Appendix 3: Chronology of the

      hostage crisis

Appendix 4: Chronology of Sierra Leone

Glossary

Quotation Acknowledgements