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**John Carney (Author)** **John Carney** , 42, served six years in the Yorkshire Regiment and did two tours in Northern Ireland. He was a team leader in Iraq with Aegis Defence Services, the multi-million-pound private security firm set up by Colonel Tim Spicer. He has operated a close protection service in Iraq since 2011 and currently organizes deradicalization programmes on the Syrian/Turkish border. To protect his family, the name John Carney is a pseudonym. Names of his family and colleagues have been changed. **Clifford Thurlow (Author)** **Clifford Thurlow** has lived all over the world and has worked as a gem stone dealer and a foreign correspondent for the _Observer_ in Athens. The winner of the London Arts Board New Millennium Prize for short fiction, he is best known as a ghostwriter. His recent books include: _Making A Killing_ , the inside story of a hired gun in Iraq, and _Escape from Baghdad_ with Captain James Ashcroft; _Fatwa, Living with a Death Threat_ for Jacky Trevane; and _Today I'm Alice_ for Alice Jamieson.