The Feather Men - Ranulph Fiennes

I am not an avid reader but every now and again a book comes along for some reason and captures my imagination - the Feathermen is one of those books and even now, some years after I read it for the first time, there are still passages which are emblazoned in my memory! You might well wonder why I, a woman of relatively peaceful intent, would want to read a book which is actually a fascinating tale of a series of revenge murders? Essentially it is what I would regard as a 'boys book' containing lots of details about how to kill someone and make it look like an accident - so what was it that drew me to it in the first place? I am not ashamed to admit that it ...

"The Feather Men" by Ranulph Fiennes, the explorer, writer and ex SAS soldier is an interesting, true (although heavily disputed) tale of a series of deaths. According to Fiennes book, he was approached by a group of vigilantes known as "The Feather Men" to the establishment (government, MI5/6 etc) who were recruited to kill another group known as "The Clinic". Apparently, "The Clinic" were a group of assassins hired to kill a group of British soldiers, two regulars, and two SAS - all of whom had served in the Arabian Desert. It's a fascinating tale and it's very well told indeed, and for a while I believed bits of it, ...