Book Review - The Shooting Gallery by Gaz Hunter
October 29th 2007 08:55
Synopsis: Entering the SAS after serving with the Royal Green Jackets, Gaz Hunter was following a family tradition. His missions have ranged from extracting hostages in Sierra Leone to counter-terrorist operations in Northern Ireland - and he has always led from the front. A former senior NCO of the SAS, Hunter is the highest-ranking member of the regiment to tell his story yet. It is a story about British foreign policy and one mans life as a soldier in the SAS. As the highest ranking enlisted member of the regiment ever to tell his story, Gaz Hunter's experiences are unlike anything you have read before.
Over the last few years, there has been an explosion of books written by just about anyone who has been in the SAS or any of the other secret services. This is a quick and easy to read book, I read it over the weekend and it dosen't go into the tech details too much, so you don't get bogged down trying to understand what is happening. Some of his experiences are pretty graphic in nature and how the Mujahideen treated any Russian prisoners they captured is pretty bad and enough to give anyone PTS disorder.
Although this is the second book I have read this year about an ex SAS man over in Afghanistan teaching the fighters how to use stinger ground to air missles, so I was wondering just how many ex SAS were over there, with these missles? Jihad by Tom Carew is the other book which is worth a read.
Overall not a bad book, covering Gaz's time from the troubles in Northern Ireland, to Sierra Leone, Waco and Colombia and I liked his honesty in some of the comments he would make from time to time through out the book, especially the one about people who look after special needs children.
kiwiauthor rating 6/10
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