On Her Majesty's Service: My Incredible Life in the World's Most Dangerous Close Protection Squad - Rilegato

Ron Evans spent 15 years as a member of A Squad, the protection officers of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch. But he was no ordinary member as the years of atrocities that would eventually come to haunt him gave a whole new meaning to the word protection. Although spies and politicians have told their stories before, Ron is the first protection officer to ever break ranks. With what he describes as a Boy Scout’s training by SO19, Ron was sent into the firing line with a license to kill. He gives us a terrifying insight of an outfit charged with the most dangerous assignments, from Downing Street, to the White House, to the perils of Afghanistan. In his own intimate and frank words, Ron reveals his most high profile assignments, detailing his two years spent guarding the author Salman Rushdie from an Iranian fatwa during the height of the Satanic Verses controversy, and the four weeks after 9/11 where he found himself alone with Claire Short in Peshawar, armed with only a Glock and 100. Ron exposes the abuse of position by those in power, and highlights massive corruption within the service, the criminality, and dishonesty, and the old boy network.