Follow Me Home - Softcover

Patrick Bishop

3.4

45 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340951753 ISBN 13: 9780340951750

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011

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High summer in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Two young soldiers, Milo and Zac, are on a mission which could really make their names. Their special duties team is to ambush and capture a notorious Taliban leader. The operation has been meticulously planned and set up. But suddenly - all is chaos. The hunters are now the hunted. To reach safety they must make their way through fifty kilometres of hostile territory, with a Taliban captive and a young, frightened woman in tow. Perilous at every turn, the journey is the biggest test any of them has ever faced, and it will change their lives forever.

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About the Author:

Patrick Bishop spent twenty-five years as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts around the world. He is the author of two hugely acclaimed books about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys. His most recent bestseller is 3 Para, an epic account of the British deployment to Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. A GOOD WAR is his first novel.

Review:

Bishop's first-hand experience of Afghanistan as a foreign correspondent lends authenticity to a tightly constructed wartime tale of friendship and heroism. * Sunday Telegraph * a compelling variant on the theme of soldiers trapped in enemy territory and striving to get home... The pared down simplicity of Bishop's narrative is made even more effective by details conjured from his own experience as a foreign reporter in war zones. * The Sunday Times * The pared-down simplicity of Bishop's narrative is made even more effective by details conjured from his own experience as a foreign reporter in war zones. * The Sunday Times * The first great novel of the Afghan war * Sun * Read it and enjoy a novel of great subtlety and insight; one that explores the age-old themes of loyalty, humanity and forgiveness, and that you finish feeling strangely optimistic about the future. * Country Life * One of the most honest and evocative stories to come out of the war in Afghanistan. Authored by the acclaimed front line war reporter, this tale plays with ideas of love against a haunting backdrop of terror. * Oxford Today * FOLLOW ME HOME does the details and the heroics well. It is a good, easy read and impressively authentic . . . Insofar as any book about a troubling, complex, bloody, contemporary conflict can be entertaining, this one is . . . It is a ripping yarn in which the swash and buckle of old has been replaced with the crack and thump of sniper rifle. * Scotsman * Crisp, action-packed tale set in Afghanistan . . . the material is so powerful that [Bishop] fashions it into a compelling novel. * Mail on Sunday * Impressively authentic. The author knows his subject, British infantry soldiers and their fight in Helmand, very well and his instinctive understanding of the military should satisfy even those harshest of critics, the very men and women who have served in Afghanistan * Evening Standard * Read it and enjoy a novel of great subtlety and insight; one that explores the age-old themes of loyalty, humanity and forgiveness, and that you finish feeling strangely optimistic about the future. * Saul David * A triumph of storytelling. The first great novel of the Afghan war. * Major Chris Hunter, author of Extreme Risk *

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