Stand Your Ground: A Torsten Dahl Thriller by David Leadbeater

SYNOPSIS

FAMILY THREATENED ON VACATION.

HUNTED AND WITH NO CHANCE OF RESCUE.

HOW WOULD YOU SURVIVE?

​An idyllic family vacation in Barbados goes terribly wrong when Torsten Dahl is spotted by the one man with reason to hate him most in all the world.

With his marriage already crumbling and his defenses down, Dahl is finding it hard to switch between the soldier's discipline and a family unit. When their hotel is attacked by gunmen they are forced to flee blindly with no phones, no ID, and no money. It gets worse when Dahl realizes his wife, two daughters and himself are being singled out and hunted down by a dangerous army that includes corrupt local authorities.

As the chase continues through Barbados's darkening streets, aboard a pirate cruise ship, and amidst a festive carnival parade, Dahl realizes there are even deeper nightmares abroad tonight. The island's prime minister is under threat. The leader of one of the world's most violent drug cartels has arrived.

And though instincts say run, hide, just survive, there is only one thing a man like Dahl will do when his wife and daughters come under direct threat.

Stand His Ground.
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My Thoughts:
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​Torsten Dahl’s first solo outing has all the action, suspense and excitement we've come to expect and anticipate from a David Leadbeater novel, but with a twist.

In the Matt Drake novels, Dahl is a rock, a complete professional at the top of his game, and yes, the Mad Swede – and he always comes up with the goods, usually in dramatic fashion! In Stand Your Ground, he is all of this, but we also see his softer side, his vulnerability: his family.

​This brings new emotional and psychological levels to the action novel, which add to the suspense and threat levels as Dahl is now far more than a soldier; he is a parent, and any one of us could face the same dilemmas. Somehow everything seems all too real for comfort.

So how does a key member of an elite special forces team balance his professional role with that of a husband and father? Especially when the two intersect?

Read Stand Your Ground to find out…

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