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BRANDON & ASSOCIATES are pleased to announce that

have published

 'Renegade Hero'

The True Story of RAF Pilot Terry Peet and his Clandestine Mercy Flying with the CIA

 by    Michael Hingston                     

Cold war helicopter ace Terry Peet lived for flying. He was a ‘go anywhere, do anything,’ Royal Air Force pilot with a reputation for ‘sheer  guts’. Whether ferrying troops to remote jungle landing zones or snatching casualties from makeshift clearings surrounded by two-hundred-feet high trees, he willingly pushed himself and his primitive Sycamore helicopter to the limit. During two years in the hot spots of Malaya and Borneo with the RAF, he repeatedly cheated death and earned a Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air. Then suddenly he disappeared without trace, apparently drowned tragically while on a recreational scuba dive off the North Wales coast. Six years later he dramatically reappeared in a back-from-the-dead drama worthy of fiction. The media hailed him enthusiastically as a renegade hero and ‘Flying Pimpernel’ when the story of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent extraordinary double life unfolded. 
 
In fact he had been recruited by the CIA for a clandestine air force involved in paramilitary operations in the former Belgian Congo. He was told that his departure from the RAF had to be ‘covert’. The summary presented in his eventual court martial crucially omitted this. It also failed to disclose that his employment as a mercenary, or ‘contract pilot’ to use the CIA’s more inoffensive terminology, received the tacit approval of British intelligence. Moreover, a claim that the RAF had not seen or heard anything of him following his disappearance in Anglesey was completely untrue. 
 
This book is the true revelation of an entirely mysterious affair as told to the author by Terry Peet. 

Reviews:

This is the story of what really happened, a story involving the CIA and British Intelligence, as recounted by Terry himself
Britain at War, November 2011

Probably the most exciting book I have read. I can recommend it not only as a biography and history book but a great adventure story . This book should certainly make your book of the week. The author is to be congratulated on his research and credibility. It would seem to me the RAF is the villain. I am surprised they haven't been taken to task.  A GOOD BOOK    Peter Wright  

How History should be!        Whilst I am not normally a "war stories" kind of a guy, I was intrigued by this true account of CIA-organised, clandestine ops set in turbulent `60s Africa as the US struggled to gain control of the Congo and its huge resources. With a true contradiction of a man as its central character, not only is this a fascinating read but it will resonate strongly with anyone abreast of US present-day foreign policy. I highly recommend this book. - A.M.M. Donaldson

  Well written, compelling and informative,    11^th  December 2011  

The author gains our attention immediately from the first chapter by opening with details of how Terry faked his own death with the following chapter going back to earlier times when we start to understand why he might do such a thing. We then read about his incredible life after his 'disappearance' carrying out rescue missions in often truly horrific circumstances.

Whilst in some ways Terry is clearly no angel, I found that I empathized with him early on in the book and I found it very difficult to put down.

A must for anyone interested in military aviation and/or African history, or just a great read for anyone who merely wants to read a compelling true story of bravery, betrayal, love and endurance.

An exciting read,    2^nd  December 2011 

I picked this up after my husband had finished it and enjoyed every page - lots of intrigue, action, history, an entangled love-life - and all extremely well written. Who needs fiction when you get real-life stories like this? A thoroughly good read - and I learned a lot too!

PUBLICATION DATE        3rd October 2011

ISBN  9781848845305          Hardback price   £19.99

Michael Hingston's   first book

 INTO ENEMY ARMS

was published by  GRUB STREET 

www.grubstreet.co.uk

Michael's book tells the remarkable true story of a German girl's struggle against Nazism, and her daring escape with the Allied airman she loved.

Ditha Bruncel's detailed memory of living in Germany during the Second World War provides a rare, first-hand insight into the day-to-day struggle against Nazi oppression, when even small acts of defiance or resistance carried great personal risk.

This book tells the extraordinary story of Ditha and the escaped POWs she helped to save.

    PUBLICATION DATE    3rd June 2009

    ISBN  9781904943501   Paperback price   £9.99

  Michael's book is available from your local bookshop or at

www.amazon.co.uk

www.waterstones.co.uk

 www.whsmith.co.uk 

www.bookshop.blackwell.co.uk 

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