Description
| Product ID: | 9780330471923 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Pan Real Lives Series |
| Title: | The Circuit |
| Subtitle: | An Ex-SAS Soldier, the War on Terror, A True Story |
| Authors: | Author: Bob Shepherd |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | True war and combat stories, True war & combat stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Sunday Times top-ten bestseller – a passionate page-turner by a soldier with something to say <p><b>After nearly twenty years of SAS operations, including a never before published role in the infamous Bravo Two Zero patrol, Bob </b><b>Shepherd </b><b>retired from the military to work as an advisor on the international commercial security circuit. Certain his most dangerous days were behind him, Bob settled into a sedate life looking after VIPs. Then 9/11 happened . . .</b><br><br> Bob found himself back in war zones on assignments far more perilous than anything he had encountered in the SAS: from ferrying journalists across firing lines in The West Bank and Gaza to travelling to the heart of Osama bin Laden’s Afghan lair. As part of a two-man team, Bob searched for ITN Correspondent Terry Lloyd’s missing crew in Basra, Iraq, while in Afghanistan he was forced to spend the night as the only Westerner in Khost – with a $25,000 bounty on his head.<br><br> As the War on Terror escalated, Bob contended with increasingly sophisticated insurgents. But the most disturbing development he witnessed was much closer to home: The Circuit’s rise from a niche business staffed by top veterans into an unregulated, billion dollar industry that too often places profits above lives. This is a pulse-racing and at times shocking testament to what is really happening, on the ground, in the major trouble spots of the world.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-04-03 |
