Payback

Payback, by Andy McNab and Robert Rigby is the second (sequel to Traitor) explosive, roller-coaster chapter in the brilliantly written Watts family series. Still on the run from the British government and MI5, Fergus and Danny Watts have taken refuge in Spain. When a series of UK teenage suicide bombings kill hundreds of people and leave British Intelligence stumped, they are forced to come back when their position is discovered. But it’s not for execution. The government, desperate for answers, has decided to let Fergus and Danny help them on the mission. But even though they mean well, Fergus is suspicious, and has doubts about whether they’ll get out alive.

For this book, I didn’t really have a favorite part, since it was a continuation of the first one. But don’t get me wrong; it was just as good, if not better, than Traitor.

Since I already wrote about McNab in Traitor, I’ve decided to write about the operation that he led. McNab led an SAS unit known as Bravo-Two-Zero and were deployed during the first Gulf War to Iraq to set up an observation post along the Iraqi supply line. They were compromised when a farmer driving a bulldozer discovered them. The farmer alerted the Iraqis and a firefight began. Since two of the eight-man team had already been killed by hypothermia, they were under strength. McNab, along with three others were captured, but Corporal Colin ‘Chris’ Ryan managed to escape. He was the only soldier who wasn’t killed or captured, and later wrote the book The One That Got Away.