--- product_id: 44958371 title: "Soldier Spy: The True Story of an MI5 Office Risking His Life to Save Yours Hardcover – October 6, 2016" brand: "tom marcus" price: "40.91 DT" currency: TND in_stock: false reviews_count: 19 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/44958371-soldier-spy-the-true-story-of-an-mi5-office-risking store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Soldier Spy: The True Story of an MI5 Office Risking His Life to Save Yours Hardcover – October 6, 2016 **Brand:** tom marcus **Price:** 40.91 DT **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Soldier Spy: The True Story of an MI5 Office Risking His Life to Save Yours Hardcover – October 6, 2016 by tom marcus - **How much does it cost?** 40.91 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/44958371-soldier-spy-the-true-story-of-an-mi5-office-risking) ## Best For - tom marcus enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted tom marcus brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Soldier Spy: The True Story of an MI5 Office Risking His Life to Save Yours Hardcover – October 6, 2016 - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51N8f2K3U-L.jpg) ![Soldier Spy: The True Story of an MI5 Office Risking His Life to Save Yours Hardcover – October 6, 2016 - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ob1-hMcpL.jpg) ![Soldier Spy: The True Story of an MI5 Office Risking His Life to Save Yours Hardcover – October 6, 2016 - Image 3](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51N7ZY3VUhL.jpg) ![Soldier Spy: The True Story of an MI5 Office Risking His Life to Save Yours Hardcover – October 6, 2016 - Image 4](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513YkzOh3eL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A real anti-terrorist in MI5 *by M***F on Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2016* When I finished this book all i could say was "Wow".Marcus had two faults, a brilliant one and one that brought him down.Brought up as a minimally wanted child he developed street smarts and so joined the army so that he could have a family.One of the very few recruited out of the army by MI5 (British internal security) because he was very good at what he did.His brilliance was that he remembered everything he saw and could react almost instantly in his undercover role no matter what.His fatal flaw was that his brain never had the time to sleep sufficiently to process and file away all his experiences, so eventually it just overloaded and resulted in his having PTSD resulting in the end of his career in MI5.Well written to hold ones excited attention with great descriptions of the operations in various missions.Sad in a way in that the world is so screwed up that people have to do what Marcus had to do, to keep the rest of us safe.One has to applaud him though for sacrificing himself in this way even though he loved doing it.MI5 has also to be thanked for allowing him to describe his work in sufficient detail so that the rest of can somewhat understand the danger that he lived in for many years and continues to live in if ever his real name got out. Many terrorists would love to finish him off for the work he did against them.Hopefully lots of people will buy this book so he can be financially helped in his 'retirement', which consists of menial jobs because he is not allowed by official secrets to let a potential employer know what he was doing for 10 years.Worth every cent or penny paid. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Traumatic *by M***T on Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2018* There’s an earnest, honest quality to this awkward, unschooled, and repetitive book by former M15 officer, Tom Marcus (not even his real name). The survival smarts that he learned growing up in a home with an abusive, alcoholic father and an absent, distant mother, make him an attractive recruit for Britain’s Special Operations (counter terrorism) team operating in Northern Ireland. Combining a feral kind of street savvy with a hypervigilant awareness and uncanny sixth sense about danger, Marcus later gets “tapped” for M15 undercover work in London.I loved his adrenaline-paced narrative and his revealing spy hacks – spit in an attacker’s face to throw them off balance; start your car with the doors open to dissipate the blast from an IED; clandestine meetups with targets can be communicated through normal delivery services like flowers or candy. He writes in a this-and-that manner that keeps his scenes moving. Speaking of moving, many of those scenes feature extended car surveillance operations which, despite his obvious enthusiasm for the technique, wears thin on the reader.The fight-or-flight skills so useful to him in the field, though, begin to negatively impact his personal life and wellbeing. Nightmares, a hair-trigger startle reflex, memory blackouts and profound anxiety lead him to seek mental health treatment. There are lots of books out there by former spies. What sets this one apart from others is his description of his service-related PTSD diagnosis. The very thing that made him so effective in the field – living on the edge – almost becomes his undoing. An unflinching look at the price our officers pay for keeping the world safe. ### ⭐ Awful and very very walty... *by M***O on Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2019* I've never written a review before so that's how bad this book is that it compelled me to do my part in saving the world from such awfulness. This book was simply awful. I find it very difficult to believe any of it. I paid €1. and I feel I was ripped off.The author has a massive ego, so much so that I imagine he'd be burned pretty quickly on a surveillance task due to his massive head and his inability to go two sentences without telling you he's former "Special Operations"It's not difficult to see why this book gets such a bad rating from the ex-military bods because it is infuriating in how he describes his career. Things just don't happen the way he describes them.There was this little gem about getting handed a bottle of bubbly in front of the whole regt by the CO for "having the biggest balls in the regiment" really??Then being SENT to Special Operations??? You don't get sent for Special Operations...you apply for Special Duties.Then you go through tests/interviews/a selection process designed to weed out those that the role isn't suitable for.With an ego as and attitude like his, I'd be surprised if he made it past the initial stages of the selection process, ego and self importance are personality traits that simply don't fit in, in that kind of work.Then we get the absolute howlers such as being undercover in a Glaswegian bar when a plain clothes cop walks in...so what does our hero do? He bottles him, urinates on him then robs him. As a way to save him.....yes, save him. It also has the benefit of gaining the confidence from the baddies. Baddies he'd previously described as intelligent and professional, yet they seem to fall for this??Now, as someone who conducts covert surveillance (as a civvie) on a day to day to basis I simply couldn't get my head around how we could be expected to believe this utter nonsense. Firstly, the bad guys would probably not just murder a cop that walked into their bar because that will probably lead to all sorts of trouble for them and their plans surprisingly enough, secondly when conducting surveillance you DON'T BRING ATTENTION TO YOURSELF!! Anyone walking in and taking any attention off you would be welcomed.Then we get the story of following the shop lifter and how our hero was seconds away from killing him. With a pen. I had to go lie down here as I'd developed an intense migraine from excessive eye rolling and groaning.The book is littered with the words, me, I, I'm, dangerous, tough, ex-special ops and he feels the need to remind us every second paragraph just how dangerous he is and how dangerous his job is. He paints the picture that it is him, and him alone that is saving everyone from the baddies. He does his best to make you believe that his every waking moment is filled with danger as he "Hunts" down the bad guys. It's covert surveillance in a relatively safe western country ffs. Even in it's worst parts it's not as dangerous as he tries to make out.There is a lack of understanding in how such things work such as the planned attack on a power station that the author claims would shut power off to London for months. It doesn't quite work that way as redundancy is a feature in such matters, he also insinuates that "we discussed" such attacks in a way that sounds like he was involved in critical infrastructure planning/protection. That's not quite his job and just a bit above his pay grade.The book is complete nonsense, the stories are terrible and fabricated and it the author has a massive chip on his shoulder that's equal in size to his ego. It's full of false modesty about how he wishes he wasn't so tough/dangerous and wishes he was "normal" yet can't seem to wait to tell you that if it wasn't for him that the terrorists would win.To sum up, this is just a walty story full of holes and self aggrandizing on a massive scale from someone with a huge ego. 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