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  • Published: 1 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780552155717
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $45.00
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Eight Lives Down





The most exciting and nerve-jangling work of military non-fiction since Bravo Two Zero

SEARING HEAT

You have the most dangerous job in the world's most dangerous place. You are responsible for bomb disposal in the British sector of Iraq.You are the last defence against oblivion. And it's already a hundred degrees in the shade. ,

COLD FEAR

You are up against some of the most sophisticated bombmakers in the world. They don't play by the rules of the Geneva Convention. Nothing but your own wits will save you. You're on your own.

SILENCE

Now is the moment of truth. All you can hear is the sound of your own blood pounding through your veins. This could be your last moment on earth.

IT'S JUST YOU AND THE BOMB

  • Published: 1 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780552155717
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the author

Chris Hunter

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, including the Balkans, Northern Ireland, Colombia, Afghanistan and Iraq. For his actions during his Iraq tour he was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

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Praise for Eight Lives Down

Will do for Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush what McNab did for Saddam and George Senior

Evening Standard

You're left in awe and wondering if we're paying Our Boys enough for going through this kind of hell. And doubting it

Books Sport

This is a book that sets its sights high from the off - and boy does it deliver

London Lite

Packed with such powerful descriptions of coming under fire that at times you begin to imagine you have picked up the script for a Hollywood action movie

London Lite

Thoughtful, gripping and engaging... The emotion, the immediacy, the adrenalin rush of what it feels like to walk towards a device that may or may not blow at any minute taking you and everyone in the proximity with it packs an authentic punch

Kate Mosse, The Times

This gripping first-person account of how Hunter survived extreme conditions in hostile territory while carrying out the most dangerous job in the world will get your pulse racing

Daily Express

You might expect an account of disabling bombs to be repetitive or overly technical, but Hunter's is neither. Each incident is fascinatingly different and edge-of-the-seat dramatic, and Hunter recounts them with vividness and clarity

Daily Mail

This story of a tour of duty as a bomb disposal expert in Basra is both eye-opening and completely compulsive

Evening Standard

A ticking bomb of a book; breathtakingly tense, fast-paced and incredibly moving. The best war memoir I've read in years

Andy McNab

Chris Hunter is a very brave man. His work couldn't be more terrifying or necessary

Daily Mirror

Action-packed... A breathtaking story of courage and survival

News of the World

One of the best true stories you'll ever read - and 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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