Customer Reviews
Excellent and Gripping - By: J. S. Leyland, 03 Jun 2008 
My partner insisted I read this book as he said I would enjoy it. He was right, a reallly gripping book. Excellently written & scarily beleivable.
A good yarn, but.... - By: Personal opinion, 07 Jan 2008 
This is a well researched book in the Freddie Forsyth style although it has too much unnecessary minute detail, which is sometimes repeated in another chapter. The plot is clever & original but, despite quoting some real people, even moderate critical analysis should show it to be complete fiction. By no means everyone who knew the victims of the accidents described is happy with the way they have been portrayed.
Enjoy a good ripping yarn but use your common sense while reading it.
Very thought provoking - By: G. Hardman, 25 Oct 2007 A thriller of the highest class. Very beliveable I am in no doubt this is factorial written as fiction. It also poses the question if the 'Boston Brakes' principle is possible given todays technology, could this have been used in Paris?
Very thought provoking - By: G. Hardman, 25 Oct 2007 A thriller of the highest class. Fact or fiction is hard to tell. Totallly beliveable. I feel it is factorial written as fiction. Questions must be asked if the "Boston Brakes" theory could have been used in Paris?
Thrilling true story that reads like fiction - By: Mr. Tristan Martin, 19 Sep 2006 In this book, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has written a true story that reads like something from the mind of Frederick Forsyth.
The narrative concerns a paramilitary force (of SAS) operating in Great Britain, callled The Feathermen, who are tasked with tracking down a team of international assassins callled The Clinic, a task they accomplish over the course of two decades.
All of this sounds wildly fanciful, were it not for two reasons: establishment historians of the Regiment have looked into this with the intention of debunking the story & have ended up being reasonably convinced that it is in fact true. Secondly, real people's deaths are depicted in this book; their families have not protested to Fiennes for making money out of their deaths in the work of a taudry pot-boiler.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has done an excellent job in creating a dynamic & intriguing narrative. This book is of special note if you have an interest in political assassinations: some of the wet-jobs described in this book are so precise that they end up becoming a strong rebuke to those close-minded types who claim that public assassinations (the two Kennedy murders, for example, Diana maybe) couldn't happen because they would be too elaborate, too complex.
