Knife Edge by Richard Villar

Though a surgeon at heart, Villar takes and passes SAS Selection, learning to infiltrate secret establishments, to stay calm under hostile interrogation, and, above all, to survive. From the tangled jungles of Central America, India and the Far East to the Arabian Bedouin, the frozen slopes of Mount Everest to the streets of Northern Ireland and Sarajevo, the author recounts his unique experiences in the troublespots of the globe. He deals with leeches and perilous bleeding, landmines and afatal avalanche; KNIFE EDGE is vivid, pacey, sometimes harrowing, often hilarious.

aircraft
altitude sickness
antiterrorist
appeared
arms
Army
asked
barely
become
Bedouin
blood
breathing
Brummie
bullet
camp
casualties
civilian
climbers
climbing
clinic
colleagues
damage
Despite
disease
Doc
doctor
door
Everest
eyes
face
Falklands War
feel
felt
gastroenteritis
ground
hand
happen
Haruj
helicopter
Hereford
hip
hospital
idea
impossible
injuries
Iranian Embassy siege
Jeffrey Archer
jungle
kilometres
knee
knew
land
Land Rover
Lebanon
leg
looked
Louise
major
metres
military
minutes
mountain
never
night
normally
Northern Ireland
occasion
once
operating theatre
orthopaedic
Padhar
Palestinian
parachute
particularly
patient
patrol
problem
RAMC
realized
Regiment
replied
returned
Sarajevans
Sarajevo
SAS medical
SAS operative
saw
say
Sennybridge
Serb
shot
shoulder
side
skin
smile
SMT
sniper
soldier
someone
Squadron
stop
sure
surgeon
surgery
surgical
survive
task
terrorist
things
Third World
thought
tiny
took
turned
UK
vagotomy
Villar
voice
walk
worry
wound