As a hardened veteran of the SAS, Ollie Ollerton has faced more ‘break points’ than most of us. The stresses and challenges he has faced - dodging a hail of bullets in Baghdad, busting a child-trafficking ring in Thailand – are unimaginable to us mere mortals. Yet Ollerton has battled personal demons as well, from depression to drug addiction to alcoholism. This is the inspiring story of how he faced down those demons and built a new life helping others to do the same.
Everyone has the capacity for incredible achievement, because it's only when it's crunch time, when you're down to your last bullet - when you're at break point - that you find out who you really are.
Where is your break point? Is it here? Facing the gruelling SAS selection process on one leg, with a busted ankle and the finish line nowhere in sight? Or here? Under heavy fire from armed kidnappers while protecting journalists en route to Baghdad. Or is it here? At the bottom of a bottle, with a family in pieces, unable to adapt to a civilian lifestyle, yearning for a warzone?
Ex-Special Forces soldier and star of TV's SAS: Who Dares Wins, Ollie Ollerton has faced many break points in his life and now he tells us the vital lessons he has learnt. His incredible story features hardened criminals, high-speed car chases, counter-terrorism and humanitarian heroics - freeing children from a trafficking ring in Thailand.
Ollie has faced break points in his personal life too, surviving a freak childhood attack, run-ins with the law as a teenager rebelling against a broken home, his self-destructive battles with alcohol and drug addiction, and his struggles with anxiety and depression. His final redemption as an entrepreneur and mental health charity ambassador has seen him overcome adversity to build a new and better life.
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781788703000
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 275 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 23 mm
I thoroughly enjoyed reading every moment of this book, I just couldn't put it down and I didn't want to put it down. Every page kept me hooked, I was either laughing my head off or I was gasping in shock!... More
After reading Ant Middleton's and Jason Fox books I decided to read this title too and wasn't disappointed. Ollie takes us on his personal journey from his childhood up to his present day initiatives and... More
I didn't know much about Ollie Ollerton but hearing that the scars on his face came from an encounter with a chimpanzee when he was young made me want to read more.
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