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High Risk
- A True Story of the SAS, Drugs and Other Bad Behaviour
- Narrated by: Ben Timberlake
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Military & War
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Summary
Sex and drugs and lock and load.
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The why? As Mallory said of Everest, ‘Because it’s there.’ In Ben’s case, there was no risk too high or gutter too low.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-11-20
Simply superb. Gripping & hilarious. Must listen
The most entertaining, tense, gripping, laugh out loud and jaw dropping story. I absolutely loved it.
Imagine Malcolm Gladwell joined the SAS became a junky reporter and lived to tell the tale.
He hangs out with Marines in Fallujah, war criminals in Baghdad, gangsters in London and even ex ISIS terrorists.
He tells his tale with such wit and insight. At times the tension is unbearable and then he hits you with laugh out loud moments.
A mix Malcolm Gladwell, Anthony Jeselnik, Andy McNab, PG Wodehouse, Jack Reacher, and Frankie Boyle.
Unforgettably wise, funny and brilliant.
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- W G Anderson
- 13-11-20
Straight shooter
Under the exquisitely deceptive camouflage of the rush of adrenalin and heroin, this is a beautifully written book about a man who truly dares. Who dares to explore where angels fear to tread, who dares to dance with devils, and who dares to look unflinchingly in the mirror. Compelling, cogent, charming, profound, hilarious, terrifying and fiercely humane.
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- Kate Weinberg
- 12-11-20
Brilliant and highly addictive
A darkly riotous ride through a life that feels somewhere between a pilgrimage and a dare. Unusual, beautiful writing too. Forget the heroin, this is addictive listening!
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- John D
- 12-11-20
Exhilarating, hair-raising, vastly entertaining
There are books about drugs, There are books about sex. There are books about war. There are even books about men behaving badly. But there are few if any that unite these themes in such a richly diverting, smartly enlightening and properly exciting fashion. Some of the stories are so incredible they are slightly hard to believe, but just as you begin to doubt, Ben Timberlake gives you the science, the data, the evidence, to go with his amazing anecdote, and you realise that Yes, my God, it is all true.. If I had one criticism it would be: I want even more stories! But maybe there will be a sequel. I hope so. 5/5 for sure
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- Chris Humphreys
- 17-11-20
Glad I found this one.
Less of a SAS memoir and more a telling of some genuinely gripping, funny, shocking and ( I am ashamed to say) relatable stories about fighting, addiction and a life hard lived. Well done to Ben for having the bottle to openly talk about it all. Well worth a listen as the audibook is full of informative bits too mostly about the mind and how it all works with some very funny tension breakers offered up too.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-11-20
it's alright
narrator was alright, book was fine. i dont regret listening to it, but it isnt a must read either.
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- AdamGR
- 20-11-20
More William S. Burroughs than Andy Mcnab
Extremely well written with wonderful passages of descriptive writing, self reflection and black humour. My disappointment was due to the obsessive meanderings of a drug nerd. When I say obsessive, I mean an almost autistic fascination by the author in drugs and bio-chemical processes that left me baffled for the most part. If you are hoping to learn about SAS missions or combat you will be disappointed. The lack of a chronology means you have to try and fill in a lot of blanks. How long did he serve for example? Most of the book is taken up by describing a descent into addiction and degradation. Ultimately, even by the author's own admission, this is tedious and uninteresting. Why spend so much time talking about it then? I do not find drugs interesting personally nor the attempts to explain why some people do this to themselves. Burroughs was interesting in that he explained, quite brutally, the degradation, subculture and appeal of the life of a junkie. The difference between Burroughs Junkie and todays is perhaps the absence then of trying to explain this as some type of pathology or product of trauma and therefore subsequent lack of agency. The debate is probably endless and fruitless and I have heard it so many times that it really does not appeal to me and for this reason I lost interest in the book towards the end. Having said that there's no denying this book is literate, a modern day Seven Pillars of Wisdom perhaps but with much less military battle and more of the personal. My other minor gripe is that the SAS (at least in this case) do not seem to know how to pronounce Pen-y-Fan. It's not 'penny fan' but 'pen uh van' . You would think given their cultural sensitivities they would know this.
7 people found this helpful
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- Geoff May-Byrd
- 16-11-20
read it listen to it!
a must listen/read for anyone interested in the mechanism of addiction.
not just extreme sports or drugs but any form of addictive behaviour.
6 people found this helpful
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- Kenbank
- 19-12-20
Some cool stories mixed with gap year philosophy
The stories were great, entertaining and pretty rich. However it doesn't escape the thing it tries to, which is the current pop mold of private school kids joining the SAS and then writing about it or making a TV show. Nothing separates this particular brand from Bear Grylls.
It's very hard to feel sorry for the character in this book whilst also understanding that this isn't the point. Some pointless sex stories thrown in complete with awkward details that people need not know. The poor me attitude of intentionally getting addicted to heroin and then going and living on a remote island is almost a caricature.
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- Mr. Alex Johnston
- 18-12-20
Take a breath and marvel at the courage
It doesn’t take long. Maybe half way through the first chapter. Maybe even earlier. You suddenly become aware you’re reading something important; a thing that every man should see, a thing whose power and gravitas are grounded in a brutal honesty that you haven’t heard before. At least this was my experience.
High Risk’s somewhat sensationalised cover-art and tag-line belies its real reward; namely the admiration for the bravery of a soul so nakedly bared. High Risk is a within-and-without journey that glides between parable, text book and confessional without compromise. It left me reeling - unsettled and relieved - and just as the author shared his experience in living this extraordinary life, so I can but share my experience in reading about it.
While most books seek to coax a series of narrative threads into some sort of comforting resolution, this author grasps three concurrent 2,000 volt live wires in the same fist, grapples with their life-and-death kinetics and never lets go. It is at once distressing and exhilarating; intimate and epic, pathetic and inspiring.
The first wire is charged with the discipline and commitment to ego-free excellence of the military. Its training and shaming and its ever-hovering question: what are you gonna do when you confront life and death at close quarters? The army experience spans Welsh hills to villages in Iraq. There are guns, girls and gallantry aplenty. Left there, the story would be fit alongside the many ‘My Life in the Army’ titles that perpetuate the ‘soldier as hero’ myth. The second narrative seeks to deconstruct the mythology through neurology. This is the science wire. It is up-to-date, well-researched and, most importantly, set in the context of the author’s deeply personal journey so as not to stand out like a sign language interpreter on the 6 o’clock News. The ‘science bit’ nips away at our preconceptions of heroism and simmers them down to unglamorous, but rational molecules of received wisdom. All this in preparation for the book’s most highly-charged narrative wire: addiction and the author’s love-hate relationship with it. This addiction story has recognisable tropes: lack of agency, alienation, physiological servitude. But such is the clarity of the author’s perspective that this part of the journey is less about self-loathing and and the emotional abyss; and more about a sense of identity and a lonely pride that comes with being a truly committed addict.
High Risk is not perfect. A stricter editor would have redacted some of the more prurient prose bestowed on drug-consumption; and the question of ‘Why?’ (by the author’s own admission) feels almost-but-not-completely unresolved. But personally, I gobble up most artistic output for its imperfections - and a story such as this needs to err to be so human.
I can only suppose that the author could not have written High Risk any earlier or later in his life and I can only thank him for his courage in sharing. May we all read it and be so bold.
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Eloquently narrated, riveting story
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- Confido13
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I felt like I was back in a war zone.
Like the firing of an MDMA pumped synapse, or the adrenaline fuelled flick of a safety catch, Timberlake's crazy autobiography bounces fluidly from travel journal, to war biography, to drug diary, to literature. Philosophy, psychology, archeology, physiology and the tortured workings of the human soul all are covered here with empathy, insight, wit and crude humour.
High Risk takes on Michael Herr's 'Dispatches' and Anthony Loyd's 'My War Gone By I Miss It So' and in it's vivid descriptions of the tragedy, chaos, madness and almost sexual thrill that is the reality of war. It makes normal macho Special Forces autobiographies read like teenage fan fiction.
This is Graham Greene or Joseph Conrad for the Ecstasy generation: Apocalypse Now for the 21st Century. A crazy, funny, tragic ride that I connected with deeply and enjoyed immensely. If you want to know war but don't want to die, read this.