PadreMission Creep
Alex Carter: Part soldier, part priest, all warrior.
Ex-SAS trooper Alex Carter is now an army padre. When a patrol he’s on is ambushed, he thinks his army life is finished: you can’t wear a cross and carry a gun. But something evil has been disturbed by one of his old Regiment mates. As the lines between spiritual warfare and the battlefield are blurred, Alex’s faith is tested to the extreme. Sometimes, God is a bullet …
Mission Creep is the first book in the Padre series. Perfect for fans of Jonathan Maberry, Stephen Leather, Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Guy N. Smith, and F. Paul Wilson.
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David J. Gatward
David J Gatward was born in Bristol and grew up in the Cotswolds, Wensleydale, and Lincolnshire, before heading off to the Lake District to train in outdoor education.
Having failed to realise on reading the prospectus that this meant being in a school classroom and not just climbing mountains, he graduated and went straight into publishing.
His first book was published when he was 18. Since then, he has written numerous books for children and adults, both under his own name and as a ghost writer. He was winner of the Leeds Children’s Book Award, and was short-listed for the 2023 Kindle Storyteller Award.
David now lives in Somerset and is constantly amazed by how his life has turned out.
Padre
Padre consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

