The experts

In the late 1970s, a British secret organization is tasked with eliminating a group of contract killers responsible for the deaths of compatriot soldiers. The story of this risky operation, which lasted more than 10 years and claimed countless lives, is told in this electrifying novel by Ranulph Fiennes, based on true events, now available in Brazilian bookstores and cinemas in an adaptation starring Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, and Jason Statham. When Sheikh Amr bin Issa hires the Clinic, a ruthless group of contract killers, to avenge the deaths of four of his sons, all killed during the war in the Arabian desert, he doesn't know he's embarking on one of the greatest manhunt in English history. Led by Daniel de Villiers, a man with a murky past who lost his family as a child in a horrific accident at an amusement park, the Clinic begins searching for the officers directly responsible for the deaths of the sheikh's sons on the battlefield. For each murder, the Clinic would receive one million dollars. At the end of the contract, another two million. All deaths were to be filmed, showing the perpetrators' confessions, and all were to appear as accidents, without arousing suspicion from the family or the English or Arab authorities. The hunt begins, and the Clinic is willing to do anything to collect its prize. What they didn't expect was that the Feather Men, a secret group committed to ensuring order and justice where the police and law enforcement could not, discovered their deadly intentions and began pursuing them. From 1977 to 1990, the Clinic and the Feather Men engaged in an intense, dangerous, and harrowing game of cat and mouse, in which many lives were lost, but many others were saved by the determination and commitment of men seeking the truth. At the end of the operation, their story was told to Ranulph Fiennes—himself a former SAS officer. Originally published in England in 1990, the book caused a lot of controversy in the country for revealing a secret group with links to the SAS, and reached the top of the bestseller lists.