The Tick Tock Man

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It’s called the most dangerous job in the world.

Seventeen bomb-disposal operators and three team members of 321 Explosives Ordnance Disposal Squadron (Royal Logistics Corps) have been killed in Northern Ireland since the unit was formed in 1971.

Twenty-six have been injured, many seriously; two such incidents occurred while this book was being written.

As often as not these men have been the deliberate target of terrorist booby traps; or else time and their luck ran out.

Yet in that time well over five thousand devices have been neutralised by EOD teams, saving an estimated bill for damages of some 500 pounds million; the saving of innocent life and limb has been inestimable.

Between them, those teams have received two George Cross medals, 16 OBEs, 22 MBEs, 19 BEMs, 33 George Medals and 65 Queen’s Gallantry Medals, with 115 Mentions in Dispatches. Probably that says it all.

Therefore it is a privilege to have written probably the first thriller ever to go deep into the bomb man’s closed and frightening world.

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