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- Cover
- About the Author
- Acclaim for Frank Gardner’s Luke Carlton thrillers
- Also by Frank Gardner
- Dedication
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- THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
It is a journey that began twenty-five years earlier, when a chance meeting with explorer Wilfred Thesiger inspired in the young Frank what would become a lifelong passion for the Arab world – an abiding interest that would take him throughout the Middle East and lead to his becoming a BBC journalist. And this same passion would, in the wake of 9/11, send Frank on another journey that came to dominate – and nearly end – his life: his coverage of Al-Qaeda.
Honest, moving and inspiring, Blood and Sand reveals a deep understanding of the Islamic world and offers an insider’s compelling analysis of the ongoing ‘War on Terror’ and what it means in these uncertain times.
‘Chilling, graphic and admirably unsentimental’
GUARDIAN
‘What makes Gardner’s moving, often humorous, deeply personal story so important is the fact that he has woven into it a brilliantly dispassionate, clear-eyed account of the Islamic world’
SCOTSMAN
‘A superb reporter … his terrible experience only makes his analysis all the more telling’
EVENING STANDARD
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Lost on a Sumatran volcano … pursued through Tokyo by a Japanese gangster … picnicking with the French Foreign Legion in Africa …
Ever since his student days, BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner has travelled in many of the world’s most out of the way places. Then, in June 2004, his life – never mind his ability to travel – was nearly brought to a violent end by Islamist gunmen. Incredibly he survived and, against all the odds, is again looking towards far horizons. Recent adventures have included skiing in the Alps, scuba diving in the Red Sea, exploring the jungles of Thailand and once more reporting from far-flung destinations like Colombia and Afghanistan. And this is a man who no longer has the use of his legs …
Far Horizons is Frank Gardner’s compelling account of the travels that made him the man he was on that fateful day in June – and of the journeys he’s made since, and how they have helped him become the remarkable and inspiring individual he is today.
‘Gardner is a good storyteller … Always revealing, often riotous and sometimes very moving’
TIME OUT
‘His adventures fly off the page … entertaining and charmingly self-deprecating’
NEWS OF THE WORLD
‘A bold, life-affirming read’
GQ
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THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
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