By Major (retired) Chris Hunter
Published by Bantam Press (ISBN: 978 0 5930 6016 2)
Reviewed by Roger Green, Principal reviewer, U K Defence Forum
Major Chris Hunter, holder of the Queens Gallantry Medal, retired after 17 years service in the British Army. (Chris Hunter is a nom de plume)  For most of that time he worked as a counter-IED (improvised explosive device) operator in a number of high threat areas including Northern Ireland, Iraq and Columbia and since retiring in Afghanistan. He specialised in assault IED disposal operations in support of counter terrorism (CT) units, the police and close protection teams. He was involved in the London bombings in July 2005 when he was seconded to COBRA as the suicide terrorism expert. Hunter is already well known as an author for his first book 'Eight Lives Down' that was about his time as a bomb disposal officer in Iraq.