The Circuit The Circuit
The Pan Real Lives Series

The Circuit

An Ex-Sas Soldier / A Secretive Industry / The War on Terror / A True Story

    • 4.4 • 59 Ratings
    • £4.99
    • £4.99

Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2008
4 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Pan Macmillan
SIZE
3.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Col63 ,

Worth reading

A good holiday read that kept my interest.

Airsteal ,

Excellent

This book is an excellent read, quite different from the usual book of this genre but still with plenty to the keep the reader interested. The author does not shy away from offering strong views on the state of the private security industry, views that may strike a cord with many.

Theo147 ,

Great

Very informative by a modest former regiment man who clearly knows his stuff.

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