The Easy Day was Yesterday - The extreme life of an SAS soldier

Paul Jordan, a former member of the SAS, looks back on his life from a crowded, filthy prison cell in India, where he has been held for twenty-four days. His childhood was shaped by the death of his father and brother, and that loss drove him to aim for the hardest military unit he could join. He describes the brutal selection course, jungle deployments in Asia, and the horror of Rwanda in 1994. After leaving the army he took work as a security adviser, facing criminals in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, guarding journalists during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and reaching the ruined Indonesian town of Banda Aceh after the tsunami. Throughout, the memoir is raw and often darkly funny, with its heart in the bonds of family and friendship.