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Pages: 288 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0312302568
Pub: Griffin,U.S.
Pub date: 2003-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 210994
Reader Reviews:
Dont read this if your on SAR duty. (8/8 people found this helpful)
I started reading this book on SAR duty on the atlantic coast of Ireland. My advice is dont. It made me feel like closing the curtains, unplugging the SAR alarm and not answering the phone.
The book will put the shivers up the spine of any SAR pilot. It is excellently written in a fashion that is easy to read and very quick paced. The discriptions of the highs and lows of the rescue are brilliantly put together. Only I had previously heard about this operation I would have thought this book was a fantastic work of fiction.
I feel what I found best about the book was to hear the side of the survivors in the water. To put a human side on the 'casualties' that SAR crews often rescue. It really showed that half the work is done by the casualties just to survive long enough to survive. It also shows what some would call heroisim, what some would call recklessness and what some would call all in a days (nights) work.
This book is thrilling. It will bring you to the top of triumph only to throw you into a pit of dispear as you follow the rescue of this crew.
I do however have a small problem with the book. When you read the synopsis it is about he rescue, however, when you enter the book it is set into to books. Book1 is mostly about the area and some of its inhabitants. Although this is interesting reading it is afurther 90 pages before you arrive at book2 and the start of the rescue.
Overall an excellent book and well worth a read.
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