Scar Tissue: The Debut Thriller from the No.1 Bestselling Author and Star of SAS: Who Dares Wins Paperback – 1 April 2021

I enjoyed reading this book as it's well written and construct with some unexpected twist and turns in the novel. Some of it is based on his experience of the location he visited and details that he goes into it. Overall a great read of a book. Best wishes Sean ex RE Sapper

Enjoyed this book, great storyline, Ollie writes from the pen of experience, not as 'Explosive' as other ex SF authors, but the storyline makes up for what it lacked in violence

Well I must say I’m only around halfway through the book but it’s definitely one that you don’t want to stop reading. Ollie makes use of his real life experience to provide detail throughout which adds to the further realism of the book. As I said I’m only half way through but I cannot wait to finish the rest and I’m already looking forward to more books in the future should they come to fruition.

More of a 3.75Fast paced, very descriptive (you could really imagine it play out in your head).Not my usual genre, so others more into this genre may rate it higher.Read this in preparation to reading next book on Pigeonhole so definitely willing to read more of this author's work.You can see that Ollie has used his personal experiences to write this book.

Excellent for a first time novel. Only slight criticism would be the lengthy conversations with his ex. which I skipped over. Apart from that plenty of action and intrigue. Can a person really perform like that, full of alcohol?

Well with this being the first novel by this author, it is best to know about more about the author.Ollie is a military veteran.He is known for appearing on all five series of SAS: Who Dares Wins and formed part of the intimidating team of Directing Staff alongside chief DS Ant Middleton, Jason “Foxy” Fox and Mark “Billy” Billingham.Ollie joined the Royal Marines at 18 and toured Northern Ireland and Iraq before he joined the Special Boat Service — SBS, the naval equivalent of the SAS.During his six years in the SBS he undertook a number of high profile missions in a variety of locations both on land and sea. Ollie’s missions included hostage rescue, counter narcotics, counter terrorism, homeland security, counter insurgency operations and humanitarian efforts. Ollie also qualified as a pilot of the Submersible Dive Vessel (SDV), a mini sub used to insert Special Forces Combat Soldiers behind enemy lines.As of August 2020 Ollie is Down Under filming SAS: Who Dares Wins Australia.In fact, he was one of the first former members of the UK Special Forces members to talk about my experiences and turn them into a positive force for good.Ex-Special Forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore. Scraping a living as a gun for hire and estranged from his family, Abbott is haunted by ghosts of the past, drinking to dull the pain. Life's tough, but there is one upside - at least he's not in Baghdad.That's about to change.When a job goes badly wrong, Abbott's in hot water. Next he learns that his military son, Nathan, is missing in Iraq. Knowing something is wrong, needing to find his son and desperate for redemption, Abbott has no choice but to go back.Returning to Baghdad, Abbott renews old acquaintances and begins his search for Nathan. The body count rises as old wounds open and he struggles to confront his demons, self-medicating the only way he knows how. But when one of his old crew turns up dead in mysterious circumstances and the link with Nathan is clear, Abbott begins to suspect a trap.But who is the hunter? And who is the hunted?A great debut action thriller, with a great lead character, not some super human, but a heavy drinking ex special forces. The book is filled with great twists, fast pace, good action.Looking forward to book two out in the autumn.Four stars

This book is amazing , although fiction Ollie is the man I see being Abbot. I couldn't put it down and finished it in one night. Was tired the next day but so worth it!

Thought as I started this it was a run of the mill read how wrong I was and got to a point I couldn’t put it down and read it very quickly. Hope his next book is as good.

Alex Abbott, former SBS turned mehr oder weniger freelance, ist physisch und psychisch kaputt. Ein Wrack, ein drunk, der seinen Tag mit booze beginnt und mit noch mehr booze beendet, zwischendurch den ein oder anderen Auftrag mehr oder wenig, eher weniger, erfolgreich durchführt. Bis zu dem Tag als er eine mission in Singapore botched und das nicht jedem gefällt. Die Jagd auf Abbott ist eingeleutet. Ob er es in seinem Zustand überlebt ist eher unwahrscheinlich. But who cares? Die ghosts und struggle und nightmares hätten ein Ende.Aber wer will schon sterben wenn er eine Chance auf Leben hat? Die Frage ist, hat Abbott eine Chance?Nathan, sein Sohn, ist in Bagdad verschwunden und Abbott macht sich auf den Weg, setzt alles daran ihn lebend zu finden. Aber nichts scheint so wie es scheint. Die Geister der Vergangenheit fordern ihren Tribut, brutal und gnadenlos, hart. Das muss auch ein former SF soldier erkennen.Eine runde Story, die rund geschrieben, in die Tiefen einen kaputten Seele, die nach salvation schreit führt, dabei auf Selbstzerstörungskurs bleibt, solange bis die Schuld manageable ist.Alex Abbott ist ein interessanter Character, der nur noch aufgrund seiner skills lebt, jedoch ein Gewissen hat und dem auch folgt. Auch wenn es seinen eigenen Tod bedeutet.Vielleicht ein wenig zu viel "drunk and drive", zu viel Schwere, die mit der Leichtigkeit einer Flasche deep sixed wird, aber im großen Ganzen, ist es eine etwas andere Story, auch wenn sie im Core gleich ist.Ich wünsche mir für die nächsten Bücher einen trockenen Abbott, kein Wrack, einen trockenen tödlichen und zielgerichteten Alex Abbott. John Milton hat es auch geschafft und Alex Abbott schafft es auch, die zwölf Punkte der AA. Vielen Dank.