Blood and Sand
The BBC security correspondent’s own extraordinary and inspiring story
$28.45
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2014
Summary
June 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the attempt on BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner’s life - his bestselling memoir is reissued with a new chapter recounting his return to Saudi Arabia for the first time since that near-fatal day in 2004.
On June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857502438 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857502433 |
| Author: | Frank Gardner |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Edition: | The 10th Anniversary edition |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 365g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 33mm |
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Gardner is a superb reporter; his terrible experience only make his analysis all the more telling * EVENING STANDARD *Gardner tells his remarkable tale well and bravely, with an astonishing lack of anger and enduring love and respect for the Islamic world * SUNDAY TIMES *Chilling, graphic and admirably unsentimental… Gardner comes across as a modest, thoroughly decent man… an exemplary foreign correspondent * GUARDIAN *A witty, self-deprecating, inspiring testament * DAILY TELEGRAPH *Vivid detail… entertaining anecdotes… Gardner is a tremendous model for what relations between East and West can be… a fine introduction both to journalism and to the culture of the Middle East * INDEPENDENT *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 *
Recounting his injuries and painful rehabilitation, Gardner is witty and moving, capturing without any self-pity the horror of learning his legs don’t work
* OBSERVER *An amazing true story about survival and overcoming adversityThe book stands on its own merits… as a fine account of journalistic life and a brave account of Gardner’s continuing struggle * EVENING STANDARD *Blood and Sand is a remarkable book from a remarkable man * YORKSHIRE EVENING POST *About The Author
Frank Gardner
Born in 1961, Frank Gardner has been the BBC’s Security Correspondent since 2002. He holds a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies. In 2004, while filming in Saudi Arabia, he was ambushed by terrorists, shot multiple times and left for dead. He survived and returned to active news reporting within a year. He still travels extensively. Awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to journalism, Frank published his bestselling memoir, Blood and Sand, in 2006. His first novel, the thriller Crisis, which introduced readers to SIS operative Luke Carlton, was a No.1 bestseller. The second Luke Carlton thriller, Ultimatum, was also a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, as was the third, Outbreak. Frank Gardner lives in London.
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