Tom Read

Freefall (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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, he 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780751584769
• Artikelnr.: 61377749

Autorenporträt

Tom Read is a pseudonym for Charles 'Nish' Bruce. Born in 1956, Nish spent fifteen years as a soldier in the British Army. He was a member of the Second Battalion, Parachute Regiment (2 Para), The Red Devils Parachute Display Team and 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (22 SAS). He served in the Falklands, throughout Central America and in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s, where he was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for acts of 'exemplary bravery'. Nish was also a renowned skydiver with a love for crosswords and everything airborne. He died in 2002, aged forty-five.