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FREEFALL.

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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.

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.