Eight Lives Down

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 was 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.

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

Chris Hunter

A beautifully descriptive fly-on-the-wall look at the daily work of the EOD men...For those with a fascination with international terrorism and the deadly IEDs that have become its weapon of choice, this books will offer a unique insight.

Gets underneath the skin of the terrorists and, like the bombs he made safe, gets to to the heart of what makes them tick

BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN... 
 
For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism and the bombmakers. 
 
This is the story of a teenager with no hopes who joined the army at sixteen and went on to become one of the most successful counter-terrorism operators in the world. 
 
This is the story of survival when all the odds are stacked against you, when every second feels like a lifetime, when the sound of your heart beating is as deafening as a ticking bomb. 
 
This is what it's like, day in day out, to take your life and the lives of others in your own hands, and make a difference. 
 
And this is what it costs to live that life...

Chris Hunter

Praise for Extreme Risk

A beautifully descriptive fly-on-the-wall look at the daily work of the EOD men...For those with a fascination with international terrorism and the deadly IEDs that have become its weapon of choice, this books will ...

Gets underneath the skin of the terrorists and, like the bombs he made safe, gets to to the heart of what makes them tick

Books by Chris Hunter

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