by Paul Torday
On the other hand … I was bored. The phone call with Emma had left me feeling restless and I needed to get out of the flat. I couldn’t remember when I had last gone anywhere, or seen anyone outside work.
‘Do you want to come?’ repeated Ed.
‘Why not?’
Acknowledgements
During my research for this book I read a number of books and in particular I would like to acknowledge the help I had from reading Task Force Black by Mark Urban, published by Little, Brown. I am also indebted to The Circuit by Bob Shepherd, published by Pan Macmillan.
I also had help from talking to a number of former serving soldiers in the British Army. I won’t embarrass them by naming them, but would like to emphasise that any mistakes in this novel are all mine, and not the result of any advice I received.
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First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Copyright © 2011 Paul Torday
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All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
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