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The Circuit: An Ex-SAS Soldier / A Secretive Industry / The War on Terror / A True Story
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£4.00 (Incl. VAT)
Bob Shepherd
Paperback, 352 pages
9780330471923
After nearly 20 years of SAS operations, including a never before
published role in the infamous Bravo Two Zero patrol, Bob 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.
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.
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.
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