Bodyguard (37 page)
Authors: Craig Summers
Surobi, Afghanistan. Death Valley. Nick Woolley on camera, and our own police escort watching us.
We made it! At the top of Tora Bora with my old mate Kev and my new mate Ran.
Five minutes after Friendly Fire, 2003.
2003 – tasting the sound of freedom, moments after Friendly Fire.
Inside Juárez Prison where the guards wear balaclavas for fear of reprisals in the outside world.
Tigris Rowing Club, 2010. Sir Matthew Pinsent and Sarah attaching cameras to the boat.
Haiti, 2010. Chuck, Matthew, Ian, James and, oh … William Jefferson Clinton.
First published in Great Britain in 2012 by
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