Helter Skelter is the first in a series of novels about SAS Sergeant, Mark Skelter, who is self-medicating on Valium for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Lucy Ryder, his first date since the killing of his wife by an IRA bomb ten years ago, is the daughter of a 'retired' SAS Brigadier, and at the opposite end of the social scale to career soldier Skelter. The date is cut short when his team is dispatched to Somalia, on a hostage rescue mission. One hostage holds secrets vital to Britain's national security, the other, the key to Skelter's PTSD. Skelter's orders are to kill one and save the other. If he knew the truth he might well do the opposite. A wrong decision could destroy his last chance for happiness with Lucy. Throw a tropical storm into the mix and the plan starts to unravel with more twists and turns than a roll of razor wire.