The Easy Day Was Yesterday : The Extreme Life of an SAS Soldier

From his cage in a putrid, overcrowded Indian gaol, Paul Jordan reflects on a life lived on the edge and curses the miscalculation that robbed him of his freedom. His childhood, marred by the loss of his father and brother, produce a young man hell bent on being the best of the best - an ambition he achieves by being selected to join the elite SAS. He survives the gut-wrenching training regime, deployment to the jungles of Asia and the horrors of genocide in Rwanda before leaving the army to embark on a career as a security adviser. His new life sees him pursuing criminals and gun-toting bandits in Papua New Guinea and the Solomons, protecting CNN newsmen as the US 7th Cavalry storms into Baghdad with the outbreak of the Iraq War, and facing death on a massive scale as he accompanies reporters into the devastated Indonesian town of Banda Aceh, flattened by the Boxing Day tsunami. During his 24 days in an Indian gaol, Paul Jordan discovers that friendship and human dignity somehow survive the filth and deprivation. This is a personal account of a tough, hardened fighter who suddenly finds himself totally dependent on others for his every need. The Easy Day was Yesterday is fast paced, brutally honest and raw, but laced with dark humour. The core of Paul Jordan's eventful life, however, is the strength of his bonds with family and friends and the ability of the human spirit to survive even the direst adversity. From his cage in a putrid, overcrowded Indian gaol, Paul Jordan reflects on a lilfe lived on the edge and curses the miscalculation that robbed himof his freedom. His childhood amrred by the loss of his father and brother, produces a young man hell bent on being the best - an ambition he achieves by being selected to join the elite SAS. He survives the gut-wrenching training regime, deployment to the jungles of Asia and the horrors of genocide in Rwanda before leaving the army to embark on a carrer as a securit adviser. His new life sees him pursuing criminals and gun-toting bandits in Papua New Guinea and the Solomns, protecting CNN newsmen as the US 7th Cavalry storms into Baghdad with the outbreak of the Iraq War, and facing death on massive scal as he accompanies reporters into the devastated Indonesian town of Banda Aceh, flattened by the Boxing Day tsunami. -- back cover. Breaking Point Bugger Interrogation Standby Patrol Nightmare Day One SAS Selection Course Nightmare Day Two Growing Up Nightmare Day Three Nightmare Day Four Nightmare Day Five Nightmare Day Six Steven Nightmare Days Seven and Eight Nightmare Days Nine and Ten The Last Frontier Nightmare Day Eleven Nightmare Day Twelve Nightmare Day Thirteen Deployed to hell Nightmare Day Fourteen Nightmare Day Fifteen Nightmare Day Sixteen Nightmare Days Seventeen and Eighteen Nightmare Day Nineteen Prepared to Die Nightmare Days Twenty and Twenty-one Last Days 29 The Iraq War 2003 Freedom Beckons Asian Tsunami Home.