FREEFALL. [Import] [Hardcover]

Tom. Read (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316643033
• ISBN-13: 978-0316643030
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,819,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Human struggles shared, October 22, 2009

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Huggy (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freefall (Paperback)

I followed up this book after reading Andy McNab's book on his SAS troop. Ultimately, this is a very sad story, and a true one at that, because 'Tom' ends up taking his own life by free-falling out of a plane without a parachute. What made this elite SAS soldier do this? Tom, himself, describes experiencing psychosis, a condition which he had to be incarcerated for. There is no doubt that this is an honest life story, because it takes guts to publicly share this sort of stuff. Andy McNab, in his book, surmises something more akin to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. There seems no doubt that depression played a large part in the equation. What is clear is that Tom was a fun-loving, humorous, talented man, who was a freefall world champion and who had made it into the best-of-the-best of soldiering, as well as being a family man and a great mate to many people. Unhappily he chose to cut short his life by the very means through which he had made one.

5.0 out of 5 stars Freefall, May 30, 2011

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doc - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freefall (Paperback)

This was without doubt one of the best, if not the best books I have read. If you like real, gritty no bull biographies then this book is for you. I was almost in tears in parts and laughing my arse off in others. It's written in such a way that you can almost feel the authors pain and frustration, and in some ways I could relate some of my own thoughts to his. A cracking read. I couldn't put it down and I felt sad when I had finished it.