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He waltzes into SAS selection with no previous military experience, which you certainly couldn't do in my day. Eventually, after a sojourn in Norwich as he reaches rock bottom he ends up on his ramshackle yacht in a Cornish creek (hey, he earned it, don’t knock him for that! In High Risk, former Special Forces soldier Ben Timberlake charts his extraordinary life: pursuing the rush, he takes us from combat in Iraq to encounters with a 9/11 hijacker, to battling a heroin habit on a remote island.
Some of the more complex concepts are beautifully illustrated and explained without being dumbed down, which isn’t easy to achieve.
If you are looking for a story on a man who has pushed the envelope on living life on the edge, this book is for you.
Under the exquisitely deceptive camouflage of the rush of adrenalin and heroin, this is a beautifully written book about a man who truly dares.We had a rule that we had to do our wraps by 9AM - certainly before noon,” says Timberlake today, in his office on nearby Portobello Road, in Notting Hill.
A book that transcends the standard SOF bravado and delves into the mindset of failure and more importantly the humanity involved. It is also beautifully written, the work of a lyrical wordsmith, liberally besmattered with spot-on humour and wry observation, much of it self-deprecating. Yep… To be honest I did forward thru chapter 9 but for some reason I was drawn to the addiction part.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. The author is very open right from the beginning - he told us what to expect, what not to expect, and that he’s an asshole. This is a dark, raw and uncompromising tale of the human condition in extremis, drawing on the many lives of Ben Timberlake: as an archaeologist, Special Forces soldier, combat medic and drug addict. To explore whether this rate could be enhanced by a nudging strategy that exploits the status quo bias, we conducted a randomized controlled study in northern Italy comparing vaccination acceptance among 2,000 adults age. There’s no threat in the world when you’re on vast amounts of MDMA, so you can revisit this stuff and you can talk about it.
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Starting with Ben’s first near-death experience in a Nazi-themed bar in wartime Yugoslavia, High Risk is a whirlwind tour of everything from service in the SAS, combat in Iraq, encounters with a gambling-obsessed 9/11 hijacker and steroid-fuelled mercenaries, to veterans blissed out on MDMA, hook-ups in the world of extreme sex, and battling a heroin habit on a remote Scottish island.
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