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?If fate is against me and I?m killed so be it but make it quick andpainless. If I?m wounded don?t let me be crippled. But above all don?t let mefuck up the task? So goes the bomb technician?s prayer before every bomb hedefuses. For Chris Hunter it is a prayer he says many times over his fourmonth tour of Iraq. His is the most dangerous job in the world in the mostdangerous place in the world to make safe the British sector in Iraq againstsome of the most hardened and technically advanced terrorists in the world. Itis a 247 job ? his team defuse over 45 bombs in the first two months alone.And the people they?re up against don?t play by the Geneva Convention. Forthem there are no rules only results. Bombs rockets grenades ambushesbooby traps ? death by any means necessary. Welcome to the real Wild West. Thejob of Bomb Disposal Officer in Iraq is a lonely one. You are alone with thesound of your own breathing and the drumming of your heart in a protective suitin forty plus degrees of heat. The drawbridge has been pulled up behind you asyou advance on your goal. Playtime is over. It?s just you and the bomb. But forChris Hunter just when life couldn?t get any more dangerous the stakes areraised again. Halfway through his tour he is told the following ?They wantyou dead Chris. You and your team have captured their weaponry you?vefingered them with forensics you?ve neutralised a shedload of their IEDs andbasically you?re making Behadli and his lot look like cunts. They?re out tokill the goldenhaired bomb man in Basra??extSCBK2 «
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