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After nearly twenty years of SAS operations, Bob Shepherd retired from the military to work as an adviser on the international commercial security circuit - simply referred to by its members as The Circuit. Certain his most dangerous days were behind him, Bob settled into a sedate life looking after VIPs. Then 9/11 happened.
From Basra to Baghdad, Kabul to Kandahar, Ramallah to Riyadh, 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 - often with no back-up and sometimes behind enemy lines.
But as the War on Terror esculated, Bob witnessed The Circuit's transformation from a niche business staffed by top veterans into an unregulated, billion-dollar industry that too often places profit above lives and enables western governments to hide the true cost of military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Written with the passion of an elite soldier, The Circuit is a pulse-racing and at times shocking first-hand testament to what is really happening, on the ground, in the major trouble spots of the world.
From Basra to Baghdad, Kabul to Kandahar, Ramallah to Riyadh, 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 - often with no back-up and sometimes behind enemy lines.
But as the War on Terror esculated, Bob witnessed The Circuit's transformation from a niche business staffed by top veterans into an unregulated, billion-dollar industry that too often places profit above lives and enables western governments to hide the true cost of military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Written with the passion of an elite soldier, The Circuit is a pulse-racing and at times shocking first-hand testament to what is really happening, on the ground, in the major trouble spots of the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
ISBN-13
978-1-5098-6824-7 (9781509868247)
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Bob Shepherd is an ex-SAS soldier with more than a decade of experience in commercial security. As a member of the SAS, Bob participated in operations including the Iranian embassy siege in London, the Falklands War, the First Gulf War and Bosnia. He joined the Circuit in 1994, making him one of a handful of working security advisors to have witnessed the Circuit's transformation from a niche business catering primarily to executives, royalty and the superrich to a multi-billion pound military appendage.