Eight Lives Down
The Story of the World's Most Dangerous Job in the World's Most Dangerous Place
Hunter, Chris
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Visceral and compelling, Eight Lives Down is the most exciting and nerve-jangling work of military non-fiction since Bravo Two Zero.
If fate is against me and Im killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If Im wounded, dont let me be crippled. But above all, dont let me fuck up the task.
So goes the bomb technicians prayer before every bomb he defuses. For Chris Dangerfield, it is a prayer he says many times during his four-month tour of Iraq. His is the most dangerous job in the world to make safe the British sector in Iraq against some of the most hardened and technically advanced terrorists in the world. It is a 24/7 job in the first two months alone, his team defuses over 45 bombs. And the people theyre up against dont play by the Geneva Convention. For them, there are no rules, only results death by any means necessary.
The job of a Bomb Disposal officer is a lonely one. You are alone with the sound of your own breathing and the drumming of your heart in a protective suit in forty-plus degrees of heat. The drawbridge has been pulled up behind you as you advance on your goal. Its just you and the bomb.
But for Chris Dangerfield, just when life couldnt get any more dangerous, the stakes are raised again.
BOOK REVIEWS
This isliterallya ticking bomb of a book; breathtakingly tense, fast-paced and incredibly moving. The best war memoir I have read in years.Andy McNab, author of Bravo Two Zero
One of the best true stories you'll ever readand better than fiction can ever hope to be. Don't start it tonight if you have to get up for work in the morning!Conn Iggulden
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0553806831
ISBN(13-digit): 9780553806830
Dewey Decimal: 956.7044/342
Library of Congress: 2008001909
Book Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 351
Paper Weight (lb): 1.2988 lb
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