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Chris Ryan's Strike Back is a six-part British television series based on the novel of the same name written by best-selling author and former soldier of the Special Air Service, Chris Ryan. It was produced by Left Bank Pictures for Sky1. The cast of Strike Back is led by Richard Armitage and Andrew Lincoln, also starring Orla Brady, Shelley Conn, Colin Salmon and Jodhi May, including a variety of guest appearances including Toby Stephens, Ewen Bremner, Dhaffer L'Abidine, Shaun Parkes and Alexander Siddig. The series follows John Porter (Armitage), a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20 of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
The story concerns a hostage extraction in Iraq which goes wrong. Porter takes the blame and leaves the army in disgrace, but returns 7 years later to redeem himself in another hostage situation. This covers the story of the book but the series goes on to tell 2 more John Porter stories, each one more thrilling than the next. However, there is also an over-arcing plot-line that questions what happened in the stairwell on the night of the bungled hostage extraction and who was really to blame for the deaths of three British soldiers. This theme of betrayal, redemption and revenge is what raises Strike Back above your regular action movie.
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