The Blades: Sarajevo — Josef Black

1997, after a bloody and brutal conflict in the Balkans NATO have finally secured an uneasy peace, SFOR sanctions a series of operations carried out by 22 Regiment (Special Air Service) to arrest suspected Serbian & Bosnian-Serb war criminals. During operations' TANGO and ENSUE. 4 and 5 man SAS patrols carried out a series of missions to apprehend suspects with indictments issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia.



Summer 1998, former Para Danny Archer has just passed the gruelling SAS Selection and joined an elite SAS Sabre Squadron - Bravo Seven Troop.

Arriving fresh from Jungle training, Archer arrives in Sarajevo and is thrown in at the deep end with a battle-hardened SAS patrol, sent straight out on a recon mission to arrest Radic; a wanted Serb War Criminal. As the mission unfolds Archer quickly realises how much he has yet to learn before he qualifies as a ‘Blade', but as the patrol hunt for Radic in the war-torn streets of Sarajevo and in the woodlands of Bosnia, Archer is quickly blooded in to the tight-knit SAS team.



The Blades: SAS Special Operations Force series follows Archer's Seven Troop through 6 novella length stories as he carries out a range of operations during 1998 to the eve of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and is the prequel series to The Blades: Oscar Bravo Lima due for release Autumn 2014.



The Blades: Sarajevo is also available as part of the complete 6 story series in a single volume edition; The Blades SAS Special Operations Force in eBook, paperback & hardback format.



Contains Strong Language, Scenes of Violence and British Military Slang which some readers may find offensive.