An extraordinary and very real account of the impact of modern combat
Jake Wood is a former soldier who worked in parallel as a business analyst. Having now retired from both posts, he is embarking on a career as an author. He lives in London.
"Jake Wood writes unflinchingly about his life, whether on the
battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the trading desks of Canary
Wharf or the frenzied, hallucinatory landscape of sexual passion .
. . A more pertinent story of our time it is hard to imagine"
*John Irvin, director of Hamburger Hill*
"The most haunting and moving account of how battle scars your
mind"
*Daily Mail*
"Jake Wood tells his story with an expert eye for detail . . .
intensely gripping and emotional"
*The Scotsman*
"As a military historian, I have read thousands of first-hand
accounts of war, in all its gore and glory, brutality and
suffering. But there were tears in my eyes as I followed Wood’s
story of his descent into the bleakness of Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder"
*Daily Mail*
"Jake Wood is . . . a burning man who shapes sentences with a
poet's heart and a fighter's rage . . . This one soldier's story is
indeed extraordinary and a reminder that if you can write like Jake
Wood, your life - whether lived in your head or in the world at
large - will be far from ordinary"
*The National*
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