Second Strike cover art

Second Strike

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Second Strike

By: Chris Ryan
Narrated by: Simon Darwen
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £31.99

Buy Now for £31.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

A single terrible mistake cost David Hawkins everything. His marriage. His relationship with his daughter—and his career in the SAS. Now Hawkins is a man on the downward slope of life. Banished from the Regiment, relegated to a desk job at one of Britain's biggest private defence contractors, haunted by the memories of the past.

But when a talented young engineer dies in mysterious circumstances, Hawkins is sent down to Plymouth to investigate. Working alongside the company's new cyber-security expert, Alex Millar, Hawkins must find out who murdered the engineer—and why.

What begins as a straightforward case soon turns into a deadly manhunt, as Hawkins and Millar pursue their quarry from the streets of Liverpool to the Firth of Clyde, in a frantic race against time to expose a deadly conspiracy targeting the heart of the UK's defences. Win, and they'll prevent a terrifying attack. Fail, and Britain will be at the mercy of its deadliest enemy...

©2025 Chris Ryan (P)2025 Bonnier Books UK Espionage Genre Fiction Military Political Spies & Politics Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense War & Military Exciting

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Killing for the Company cover art
The Kill Zone cover art
Osama cover art
Lethal Target cover art
Extreme Hard Target cover art
The Contract Man cover art
Masters of War cover art
Nightfall cover art
The Exile cover art
The Fall cover art
The Teeth of the Tiger cover art
Tarantula cover art
Spider Shepherd: SAS cover art
Murder Team cover art
Wolf Six cover art
Final Traitor cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
naive ex 22 ?, I don’t think so also the constant stereotypical characters having to be drunks not a good way of describing ex soldiers, Hawkins would not have made it the blades

Topical story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great to have an old character back in action. J Bald, legend! Good story. Ryan is a very good author.

Reunited

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fantastic, highly recommend, slow to start but once it gets going it’s brilliant, wish it was longer

Second strike

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I love Chris Ryan books, but this edition felt rushed, predictable and very far-fetched at times.

Flat

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It was full of killings and army communications, but it also identified how we do not know how many spies or sleepers carrying out Putins dirty work

How we are being fooled by Russia

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A gripping thrilling book and written in the way of the world these days war is not just soldiers it’s more about people being killed. Who have no say in the outcomes of fighting each other.. That’s why books like this touch very close to reality. Well written.

The story and the truth of any war goes killing anyone.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Would work ok - even well as a holiday read but listening to it the almost endless cliches & repetition was painful. Add in annoying whining accents to complete the picture.
Typical would be “ they went over what they had learned “ “ they repeated what they had discovered “ etc etc

Ok to read . Awful to listen to

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.