Maverick One: Para, Pathfinder, Renegade, the Making of a Warrior : One Way to Live, a Thousand Ways to Die
For the first time ever an elite British operator tells the gruelling story of his selection into the Pathfinders - Britain's secret soldiers. Pathfinder selection is a brutal physical and psychological trial lasting many weeks. It rivals that of the SAS and takes place over the same spine-crushing terrain, in the rain-and-snow-lashed wastes of the Welsh Mountains. For two decades no one has been able to relate the extraordinary trials of British elite forces selection - until now.
Captain David Blakeley goes on from completing selection to serve with the Pathfinders in Afghanistan post 9/11, where he had a gun held to his head by Al Qaeda fighters. From there he deploys to Iraq, on a series of dramatic behind- enemy-lines missions - wherein he and his tiny elite patrol are outnumbered, outgunned and trapped.
Maverick One is unique and extraordinary, chronicling the making of a warrior. It culminates in Blakeley fighting back to full recovery from horrific injuries suffered whilst on operations behind enemy lines in Iraq, to go on to face SAS selection.
309 pages, 4 editions
English edition · First published 2013 by Orion Books · ISBN 9781409144120
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English
- Maverick One: Para, Pathfinder, Renegade, the Making of a Warrior : One Way to Live, a Thousand Ways to Die · Orion Books · 2013 · ISBN 9781409144120 This page
- Maverick One: Para, Pathfinder, Renegade, the Making of a Warrior : One Way to Live, a Thousand Ways to Die · Orion · 2014 · ISBN 9781409146636
- Maverick One: Para, Pathfinder, Renegade, the Making of a Warrior : One Way to Live, a Thousand Ways to Die · Orion Books · 2013 · ISBN 9781409144137
- Maverick One: Para, Pathfinder, Renegade, the Making of a Warrior : One Way to Live, a Thousand Ways to Die · Orion Books · 2013 · ISBN 9781409144144
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