FIRE STRIKE 7/9 by Sgt Paul ‘Bommer’ Grahame and Damien Lewis  is a new book that explores the role of the British Armies Joint Terminal Attack Controllers, the handful of elite soldiers with ultimate control of the most sophisticated and devastating weaponry on the modern battlefield. Profits from the book will support the Forces Children's Trust.

‘Being a JTAC is the closest a soldier on the ground in the midst of battle can get to feeling like one of the gods - unleashing pure hellfire, death and destruction.’ Duncan Falconer

‘The soldier who calls in air strikes on the battlefield can unleash hell, or die trying. This is how it is done.’ Frederick Forsyth

‘A gritty, adrenaline-fuelled hellride of non-stop combat.’ Johnson Beharry VC

‘Wall-to-wall combat at the cutting edge of modern warfare.’ Colonel Tim Collins

OBE FIRE STRIKE 7/9 is the first book to tell the story of the British Army’s Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTAC), the handful of elite soldiers with ultimate control of the most sophisticated and devastating weaponry on the modern battlefield

Directing deadly airstrikes amidst the heat of battle, wielding the awesome might of Allied airpower, the JTAC’s came into their own for the first time in Afghanistan, and this book offers a unique strategic perspective on modern warfare.

In the best-selling tradition of Apache Dawn and Sniper One, FIRE STRIKE 7/9 is an intimate and enthralling soldier’s account told from the frontline of warfare.

The authors are aiming to raise £50,000 from sales of the book and related activities for the following charities: Tickets for Troops, Combat Stress, Help for Heroes, Forces Children’s Trust, The 2 MERCIAN Regimental Benevolent Fund and the Light Dragoons Charitable Trust. Contact authors via website DamienLewis.com to find out how you can help with such fundraising.

Sgt Paul ‘Bommer’ Grahame is one of the British Army’s elite Joint Terminal Attack Controllers. Operating in the heart of battle he has more firepower than an entire squadron of WWII Lancaster bombers at his command. Highly-trained specialists, JTACs deploy an awesome array of Allied firepower – Apache gunships, A10 tank-busters, F15s, Harrier GR7 jets, B1B Stealth bombers and Predators drones.

FIRE STRIKE 7/9 tells the true story of Sgt Paul Bommer Grahame and his four-man Fire Support Team on one brutal tour of Afghanistan. Operating in the heat of the fiercest fighting and besieged for months in the Green Zone, Sgt Grahame conjures up battle-winning airborne firepower in the most impossible of situations. In Afghanistan he was repeatedly called upon to destroy the adversary in behind enemy lines operations, while delivering fellow soldiers from brutal close-quarters combat.

Hunted relentlessly by the enemy, shot, blown up, rocketed and mortared, Sgt. Grahame called in thousands of airs missions ‘danger close’ to his own and fellow soldier’s positions, saving countless lives and decimating a fanatical enemy. A riveting account of intense frontline combat, high-tech weaponry and daily feats of heroism, FIRE STRIKE 7/9 delivers a fascinating insight into modern soldiering.

Sgt Paul ‘Bommer’ Grahame is an NCO with the Light Dragoons, a formation recce regiment. After his 180-day tour of Afghanistan, Sgt Grahame was commended with an operational award recognising his performance during the most intense battles of the Afghanistan deployment. He is currently on a two-year secondment to a training regiment, teaching his skills to other soldiers.

Damien Lewis has spent 20 years reporting from war and conflict zones around the world. His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers, Operation Certain Death and Apache Dawn, plus the novels Cobra Gold and Desert Claw. He was recently chosen as one of the nation’s ‘20 favourite authors’ for the Government’s World Book Day, and two of his books are presently being produced as feature films.

With a mixture or rough and ready humour and unrelenting action FIRE STRIKE 7/9 tells the story of Sgt. Grahame, his four-man Fire Support Team and the unit they were embedded with, 2 MERCIAN Battle Group, and of the epic siege of Alpha Xray. During his 180-day Afghan tour Bommer experienced barely a handful of days when not in full-on combat. Under such brutal conditions his specialist JTAC role made him the difference between life and death both for his own troops and the Taliban. Yet with typical bluff understatement he laughs it all off as “just doing my job”.

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