Freefall - Tom Read - Paperback Bog - Little, Brown Book Group - 2021 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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''This is BRAVO TWO ZERO meets ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO''S NEST . Tom Read''s story had me on the edge of my seat. It also made me cry.'' Andy McNab A former member of the British Parachute Regiment, Tom Read was preparing to freefall from more than 23 miles above the earth to become the first man to punch a hole through the sound barrier unassisted. It didn''t work out that way. From his hospital bed in a French sanatorium, Tom began to review his life in an attempt to trace the roots of his madness: the tough childhood, moving from place to place; joining the Parachute Regiment at seventeen and confronting riots, IRA snipers and booby-traps; doing more than 1,000 jumps with the Red Devils and the first ever Parachute drop onto the Falklands; and the high-altitude work that may have created a chemical imbalance in his brain. Weaving backwards and forwards between a haunting present and a remarkable past FREEFALL is an unrelentingly suspenseful account of an amazing life.''Extraordinary'' Mail on Sunday ''A courageous book'' The Times