In 1990 Rich and his unit were deployed to Northern Ireland, where he spent six months patrolling the hostile streets and countryside of south Armagh also known as “The Bandit Country”. Eventually his underworld criminal cocaine network was taken down by the police and he received a 15-year prison sentence.

The life of a cold war soldier was quite different to that of the soldiers from more recent conflicts. Rich’s transition out of the army was going wrong and he gradually moved away from the security industry and begin to apply the same skills set and training to his new life, distributing drugs. People are going to be involved the drug trade one way or another and if the odds stay the same most people will know someone who will end up involved. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading.And if you want to know how a father’s love for his children stops him taking his own life, despite the mess he’s made of it, read it. But if you want a book that tells a full story and comes to a natural conclusion then you will be disappointed. his exploits throughout Europe, the life-threatening entanglements with thugs from all over the world, and finally his eventual capture ending with a 15-year prison sentence. his exploits throughout Europe, the life-threatening entanglements with thugs from all over the world, and finally to his eventual capture ending with a 15-year prison sentence.

Leaving a wife and two children behind Rich was now back in an environment that he was familiar with, a male hierarchy.We follow Jones, aka 'The Lost Soldier' , as he desperately tries to free himself from the poisonous lifestyle that becomes his new reality. leaving the forces left a huge void in Rich’s life and subconsciously he begins to fill the void with a number of things, this included his role in the security industry but that didn’t satisfy his need to be a part of something.

Years later he was involved in a regional wide supply network distributing cocaine around parts of the UK. Rich left the army in 1995 and as a part of his exit strategy he was trained by special forces to become a close protection officer(Bodyguard) and surveillance operative. All of this though was eclipsed by his introduction to ecstasy and the social lifestyle that came with it. Drawn to this book after hearing a podcast by the author who happened to be in the same regiment as my father in the forces.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Rich’s debut book “Charlie Kilo Four” allows the reader to show people perils, instead of having to learn the hard way.

He applied himself with such enthusiasm that the prison identified that there is a problem for veterans and permitted Rich to deliver his course to veterans while still in prison, with no staff present.With the collapse of the old east there was no longer an imminent threat so the army was downsized meaning the disbandment and amalgamation of a large number of regiments, this had a profound effect on Rich and his chance of progression, he looked at his options to leave the forces but in 1993 was lucky to be redeployed as a part of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus. All of these experiences suited Rich’s mentality and risk taking behaviour down to the ground, and he felt that he had finally found the life he craved for. It's not a badly written book some parts I skipped personally as they felt like a waste of time, yes I understand your ex forces and your paranoid because your dealing drugs don't want the family to find out ect but this is repeated over and over the mental health part was well written especially as men's mental health can be over looked the book is left on to be continued I will most likely read the next book as I'm some what invested in this autobiography and how it ends. A gripping read that grabs you right away and keeps you enthralled throughout every of the 186 pages.