Deaths Head - Softcover

The cage will kill you. And if it doesn't, then no matter because thirst and the blistering heat of the desert sun sure as hell will. Or drive you insane. Few legionnaires live long enough to be bound to the whipping post and, of those who do, few are in a state to know what is happening to them. One who does is an ex-sergeant in the legion etranger. e knows when the first lash falls and he knows when the desert tribes attack, slaughtering his comrades before they can kill him. But what he doesn't know is that he's about to take the first few steps on what's going to be one hell of a journey. A journey that takes him from facing certain death in a forgotten fort in a far-away desert to a secret meeting with a certain General Indigo Glanville, commander in chief of the Death's Head. This special ops force is so deadly and so feared that the mere mention of its name or sight of its uniform is usually enough to make most enemies surrender. Except it seems there's an enemy out there who doesn't seem to want to play by the rules, twisted thought they may be, and Glanville thinks he might have found just the man for this particular mission... And so, out of this meeting strides recen

Smartly dressed, resourceful and discreet, David Gunn has undertaken assignments in Central America, the Middle East and Russia (among many other places). He is happiest when on the move and tends not to stay in one town or city for very long. He comes from a service family, has an impressive collection of edged weapons and sleeps with a shotgun under his bed. Death's Head is David Gunn's first novel.