Crisis

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Because let's face it, that is what a lot of people are understandably asking and thinking in the light of the Kremlin's recent actions over Ukraine - actions and statements that have triggered a deluge of denouncements and sanctions from the West. On 30 September 1984, he transferred from the general list to the 4th Volunteer Battalion, the Royal Green Jackets, as a second lieutenant (on probation) and was given seniority from 23 May 1984. He has also received the McWhirter Award for Bravery, Spain's El Mundo Prize for International Journalism, the Zayed Medal for Journalism and been voted Person of the Year by the UK Press Gazette. He has lived all over the Middle East, including a stint with the Bedu in Jordan, another in the medieval slums of Cairo.

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His book Far Horizons ( ISBN 978-0-593-05968-5), about unusual journeys to unusual places, was published in May 2009. Francis Rolleston Gardner OBE TD VR FRGS (born 31 July 1961) is a British journalist, author and retired British Army Reserve officer. Frank Gardner - From a diplomatic incident in the 1950s to a tudor ancestor who was executed for treason. They went to Riyadh in pursuit of a story - an analysis of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia - and became the story themselves.Despite his injury, he still frequently reports from the field including places like Afghanistan [19] and Colombia [20] but usually comments on top stories from a BBC studio. His attackers then plucked from his trouser pocket a miniature edition of the Koran (Gardner kept these to give as presents). During an expedition to Papua New Guinea, they sought the elusive birds-of-paradise (a life-long ambition of Gardner's as an experienced birdwatcher), including the King of Saxony.

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Gardner's Sunday Times bestseller Blood and Sand ( ISBN 978-0-553-81771-3), describing his 25 years of Middle Eastern experiences, was published by Transworld in 2006. He became the BBC's first full-time Gulf correspondent in 1997, setting up as a freelance stringer in Dubai. Paraplegia, unfortunately, is a tunnel which you don't come out of,' he says - but only because I ask. He loves food (iced grapes, mint tea), adventure (he has climbed a live Sumatran volcano, he tells me), landscape (there is a beautiful photograph in the book of his wife, Amanda, running across the Wahiba sands in Oman), friendship (he re-imagines long afternoons in Cairo cafes, playing backgammon). He explains: 'I am able to compartmentalise the people who did this and separate them from the Arab world.His hero is Luke Carlton, an ex-Special Boat Service Commando, now under short-term contract, as are a select handful of former SAS and SBS men, to MI6 for missions where intelligence gathering is not alone enough and may need muscle and combat skills to back it up. Gardner steadily ratchets up the tension, peppering the narrative with nuggets of expertise to make an enthralling, intelligent read. Often described as coldly calculating, like the chess player and judo fighter that he is, his speech on Monday resembled more that of an angry dictator than a shrewd strategist.

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The problem now is that after years of declining relations with Moscow, including over the poisoning of Russian dissidents on UK soil, there is almost zero mutual trust remaining between Russia and the West. Gardner was encouraged by his teachers into taking up the biathlon, which enabled him to get to see Austria and train with the British Army biathlon team.

Shot 6 times at close range while on assignment in Saudi Arabia in 2004, left severely wounded and dependant on a wheelchair. Drawing on his years of experience reporting on security matters, CRISIS is Frank Gardner’s debut novel. If there was a reason for me to be spared then, for heaven's sake, Simon Cumbers should have been spared too. Most of the bullets that hit him in his torso missed anything vital, except one, which hit him in the spinal nerves. This time it looks like they're serious about invasion - an act that would result in war between the People's Republic and the US and its allies, including the UK.

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The key to being disabled, he has learnt, is to focus on what you can do, not dwell on what you can't. His second novel, Ultimatum, was published in June 2018 followed by the third Luke Carlton novel, Outbreak in 2021.Revenge" could take the form of cyber attacks - something the National Cyber Security Centre has already warned about. When he was 16, Gardner met the Arabian explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger, and was invited to the explorer's home in Chelsea. He joined BBC World to be a producer and a reporter for them, and became BBC’s first Gulf correspondent, working full time at this post, in the year 1998, and set up office in Dubai.