Extreme Risk: A Life Fighting the Bombmakers - Softcover
The explosive new non-fiction title from the author of Eight Lives Down.In this edgy, fast-paced and incredibly moving account, Chris Hunter chronicles the remarkable journey of a teenager with few hopes and limited prospects who went on to become one of the most successful counter-terrorism operators in Britain.Hunter depicts his grueling officer training at Sandhurst, and afterwards as a young troop commander in Bosnia. He describes how, as a bomb disposal operator in Northern Ireland and Iraq, he witnessed horrendous acts of terrorism and recounts the methods he employed to outsmart the terrorists who repeatedly tried to target him.Hunter takes us to some of the most perilous places on earth as he and his team relentlessly attempt to track down the world's leading terrorists and disrupt their networks. A journey that takes us from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to the murky back-streets of Colombia and Israel. Whether he's protecting members
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CHRIS HUNTER joined the British Army in 1989 at sixteen. He was commissioned from Sandhurst at twenty-one and later qualified as a counter terrorist bomb disposal operator. He served with a number of specialist counter terrorism units and during his career deployed to numerous operational theatres. For his actions during his Iraq tour he was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal by the Queen.
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"A beautifully descriptive fly-on-the-wall look at the daily work of the EOD men... For those with a fascination with international terrorism and the deadly IEDs that have become its weapon of choice, this book will offer a unique insight."
—-Independent
"Gets underneath the skin of the terrorists and, like the bombs he made safe, gets to the heart of what makes them tick."
—News of the World
From the Hardcover edition.
—-Independent
"Gets underneath the skin of the terrorists and, like the bombs he made safe, gets to the heart of what makes them tick."
—News of the World
From the Hardcover edition.
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- PublisherCorgi
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0552157597
- ISBN 13 9780552157599
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages480
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