Contact [Hardcover]

A.F.N. Clarke (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd; First Edition edition (March 7, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0436099985
• ISBN-13: 978-0436099984
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,878,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

AFN Clarke is a former Captain in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment, where he served in Cyprus with the United Nations Peacekeeping force, two tours in Northern Ireland and a tour with the French Airborne.

Born in Hong Kong in 1948, he has lived in Bombay (Mumbai) India in the fifties and then Iran. In the early sixties his family moved to Libya where he married, his first daughter was born and he witnessed first hand the Revolution of 1969.

On returning to UK he drove Formula Ford Race cars for Jim Russell Racing Driver's School,won a few races, ran out of money and joined the Parachute Regiment in 1971. During his second tour of duty in Northern Ireland he suffered from severe Ulcerative Colitis and was evacuated with internal bleeding.

Two years of major surgeries later, he left the army in 1978 and designed and built his own FF race cars competing for a few years before CONTACT was released and he became an 'instant celebrity' with radio, TV, Newspapers appearances all over the world. He is an accomplished Private Pilot, Skiier, and Sailor

He has written four books as AFN Clarke: CONTACT; COLLISIONS; DRY TORTUGAS and published this year AN UNQUIET AMERICAN. He has written two books as Anthony Clarke: BAKER:Dreams from the Death Age and BAKER: Armageddon.

His seventh book THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ON EARTH is being written at this time and will be finished by the end of 2010.

AFN Clarke has received a screenwriter's award for the film of his first book CONTACT, and DRY TORTUGAS is under negotiation with a film company at this time.

More information and video clips are available on his website www.afnclarke.com

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Endless War, August 18, 2002

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John J. Mclennon "John J. McLennon" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Contact (Hardcover)

Contact is the best account of military service in North Ireland during the latest eruption of terrorism. It gives us a fresh view of the "Troubles" from a British paratrooper who served in Belfast and Crossmaglen. It discusses lessons that might apply to the violence now taking place in Isreal.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spiel from inside Dustcover., September 20, 2004

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patrick (Melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Contact (Hardcover)

I have this book, havent read it, but browsing it, looks promising, Ill provide the spiel/foreword inside the d/j of the edition I have, as this is pretty-good & will probably help other people considering buying it...

' A.F.N Clarke served as a paratroop officer in Belfast and in Crossmaglen, place-names recognized on the mainland only through their recurrence in the grim headlines and the grimmer newsreel images.most observers are insulated from reality by the media: what does it really feel like to be part of an army of occupation on home soil. ? What are the private attitudes of trained soldiers, operating in conditions of extreme stress, fatigue, and squalor ordered to hold the lines in an ancient quarrel -- a quarrel whose causes may be blindingly irrelevant, but whose consequences are deadly.?

Here is a report from the front line, a documentary account of the emotions, and the reactions, of one of the men we pay to kill. This is an account that spurns compromise: this, precisely is how that sad land feels, reported by a professional. It makes disconcerting reading: A.F.N Clarke, works with unpalatable fact, : the vision that frames his story has an unwelcome clarity-and he brings to this account the unquestionable talents of a gifted writer..

Capt AFN Clarke served in the Parachute regiment as a private, NCO, and commisioned officer, from 1971 to 1978. '