Eagle Trap is a novel by British writer Geoffrey Archer, published in 1993 by Bantam Press.

[1] The story concerns an Royal Marines officer tasked to stop a nuclear Terror attack.

The plot of the book opens during a failed rescue raid by the British SBS unit in Beirut in 1992.

During an air strike that was carried out as a diversion for the operation, Bicknell and Habib's brother are killed.

Seeking revenge, Habib obtains a nuclear weapons with the aim of blowing up the British Aircraft carrier "Eagle" because the Harrier Fighter planes that attacked Beirut took off from it.