The Feather Men

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The story is extraordinary and portrays with great accuracy many scenes that were familiar to me as a contemporary soldier.

At times it feels too theatrical to be real, but then again much of the story is choppy, random, filled with holes, you don't get all the answers you want. I was a little disappointed (although I knew it was a used book) that the pages were quite heavily yellowed.Furthermore, the death had to look like an accident or from natural causes, which The Clinic excelled in doing. It is perhaps the ultimate vigilante story, a tale that combines the white-knuckled tension of The Day of the Jackal and the revelatory drama of Spycatcher. If it is as non-fiction as it claims to be, this book renders 007’s evil at the Grade school level, and even limits Le Carre to early post-secondary stuff. And not only is it ‘possible’ but it is sometimes ‘necessary’ to do the wrong thing for the right reasons.

A well structured book that is clearly more fiction than fact albeit some of the characters did/do exist. If its true then it is an astonishing account of the machinations of a world which could only be related by a man of Ran Fiennes' amazing experience. Each of the assassinations was carried out in such an ingenious fashion that there would be no hint of foul play, but one clue these killings had in common was that all four victims had fought in the Arabian desert.Ranulph Fiennes has published eight books, two of which have been in The Sunday Times bestseller list. Unfolding over 20 years, the killers are very successful despite the efforts of a private overwatch group known as The Feather Men, a secret group that tried to protect current and former SAS men.