Eight Lives Down

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Synopsis
If fate is against me and I m killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I m wounded, don t let me be crippled. But above all don t let me fuck up the task So goes the bomb technician s prayer before every bomb he defuses. For Chris Hunter, it is a prayer he says many times over his four month tour of Iraq. His is the most dangerous job in the world in the most dangerous place 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 his team defuse over 45 bombs in the first two months alone. And the people they re up against don t play by the Geneva Convention. For them, there are no rules, only results. Bombs, rockets, grenades, ambushes, booby traps death by any means necessary. Welcome to the real Wild West. The job of Bomb Disposal Officer in Iraq 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. Playtime is over. It s just you and the bomb. But for Chris Hunter, just when life couldn t get any more dangerous, the stakes are raised again. Halfway through his tour, he is told the following: They want you dead, Chris. You and your team have captured their weaponry, you ve fingered them with forensics, you ve neutralised a shedload of their IEDs, and basically you re making Behadli and his lot look like cunts. They re out to kill the golden-haired bomb man in Basra
Copyright:
2007

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780440337737
Related ISBNs:
9781407039633, 9781407039626, 9781407002385, 9781407002378, 9780593058657, 9780593058602, 9780552155717, 9780553385281
Publisher:
Dell Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Chris Hunter
Adult content:
Yes
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction
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Bookshare Staff
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