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Ebury Press has acquired the rights to a new book detailing the true story of "intense frontline fighting" in Afghanistan. Senior publishing director Andrew Goodfellow bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) for an undisclosed sum from Annabel Merullo, senior agent at PFD.
The book, with the working title Widow 7/9, is by Sergeant Paul "Bommer" Grahame and Damien Lewis and will tell of Grahame and his five-man Fire Support Team on their 180-day tour of Afghanistan. During his time in Afghanistan Grahame was responsible for calling in the air strikes under the call sign Widow 7/9 and experienced life in the midst of the danger zone. The title will be published by Ebury Press as a hardback on 29th May.
Goodfellow said: "Bommer's no-nonsense squaddie voice, the high-tech non-stop battle action and Damien's talent for bringing both to life could make this the biggest true military book since Sniper One [by Dan Mills (Penguin)]." The title will provide a "riveting account of intense frontline fighting, high-tech weaponry and daily feats of unbelievable heroism".
Ebury said it would be the first book to tell the story of the British Army's Joint Terminal Attack Controllers--a handful of elite soldiers with control over some of the most sophisticated and powerful weaponry.
The book will be co-written with Lewis who has spent 20 years reporting from war and conflict zones around the world. He has previously written titles including Operation Certain Death and Apache Dawn, plus the novels Cobra Gold and Desert Claw.