Book description
The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting,
adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for
men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary
drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience,
whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights of professional sport,
the brutality of the modern battlefield, the casual violence of the
criminal world, the mind-blowing frontiers of science, or the excesses
of rock 'n' roll, high finance and Hollywood. Lives Less
Ordinary also brings you some of the finest comic voices around,
on every subject from toilet etiquette to Paul Gascoigne.
'The CO had given me the word: whatever it took, I had to get our
injured lads out. I'd ordered the F15s on an attack run right over our
heads. If I'd got it wrong we were dead...'Paul 'Bommer' Grahame is
one of the British Army's most deadlyJTACs - the man who, with
high-tech precision, calls in the airborne attacks from on the ground
in the heart of the battle. This is his brutal, explosive account of
walking into a close combat Taliban attack in Helmand and his attempts
to get his fellow squaddies out alive.
This digital bite has been extracted from Paul Grahame and Damien
Lewis's adrenaline-fuelled book Fire Strike 7/9.
Sergeant Paul 'Bommer' Grahame is a NCO with the Light Dragoons, an
armoured assault regiment. After his 180 day tour of Afghanistan,
Sergeant Grahame was commended with an operational award recognising his
performance during the most intense battles of the Afghanistan
deployment. He is currently on a two-year secondment to a training
regiment, teaching his skills to other soldiers.
